In the year 1842, I conveyed, from the first of May to the first of December, sixty-nine fugitives over Lake Erie to Canada
Such efforts to risk recapture to aid enslaved people is the kind of bravery that I could only hope to aspire to.
3 Matching Annotations
- Jan 2026
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Slaveholding and slaveholders must be rendered disreputable and odious. They must be stripped of their respectability and Christian reputation
This passage makes me think of modern day America, with ICE raids and racism running rampant. The solution many are finding is to mock the ICE agents and make them ashamed of their actions.
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I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was hungry, and you fed me. Naked was I, and you clothed me
If I remember correctly, this phrase has Christian religious connotations. Points to Christian element of abolition.
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