The Women Who Fought Slavery And Shamed The Men

These were the gals with guts.

From a very good article, on The Daily Kos, about the little-known world of female abolitionists:

   I wonder today if the way that history was taught—dismissing, diminishing or completely ignoring the large abolition movement in England and the one here in the states—was because to portray white people side by side with free blacks vigorously challenging the institution of slavery would have reflected poorly on all those so-called "fathers of our country" and the 12 U.S. presidents who were slaveowners and slave sellers.

Even today there are those who resist castigating those founding plantocrats, excusing their owning, breeding and selling humans as par for the course "in the context of the time." Let us not forget, in those same times, that there were voices crying out against slavery as an abomination.

I am explaining this though I shouldn't have to.

Today - to not be one of us - really puts you on the wrong side of history,...