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US Treasury and The Faces On US Currency
...There has been talk of having the famous black abolitionist Harriet Tubman replace Andrew Jackson on the 20 dollar bill. And I think though it does not completely address the problems our country has......
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Ian McCleary
Categories:
abolitionist,
america,
Form:
Prose
The Over-Soul
... “Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every......
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Lady Labyrinth
Categories:
abolitionist,
dark, light, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Abolition Day
...It's the most significant day in Black American history December 6,1865 the legal ending of chattel slavery It was 157 years ago When they finally let God's people go In the year 1619 was when......
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Louise Nelson
Categories:
abolitionist,
slavery,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
This Kind of Stuff We Just Can'T Excuse
...I loosen my belt and remove my shoes So, dear, what's going on in the news They blocked the streets; tore down statues No surprise there; of what were they accused The protestors, nothing......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
abolitionist,
america, satire, violence, women,
Form:
Monorhyme
The Bow That Bridges Heaven
...He wrangled with his world, found a way to cross the seas on merchant boats brimful of slaves, bound for British shores. Innumerable are the things that we shall never know; amazing, those things ......
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Reason A. Poteet
Categories:
abolitionist,
11th grade, boat, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
History
...Black History As this month comes to an end I want to begin First of all I want to thank so many I will name a few although there's plenty Martin Luther King Had a dream Yes he did That we......
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Concetta Hardnett
Categories:
abolitionist,
america, appreciation, art,
Form:
Prose
Sojourner Truth
...Sojourner Abolitionist. Slave. Women's Rights Activist. Mother. Daughter of James and Elizabeth Baumfree. Wife of "Thomas", a slave Lover of her five children, freedom, humanity, public speakin......
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Edward Ibeh
Categories:
abolitionist,
history, people,
Form:
Bio
Black History Month, 2019
...Born a slave in 1818 and escaped from slavery at the age of 20, Fredrick Douglas became a noted writer, minister of the Gospel, and an aboliti......
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Curtis Johnson
Categories:
abolitionist,
america, christian, race, racism,
Form:
Prose
The White Devil's Pride
...Bearing a European polymorphism, I should be branded by shame. I am the White Devil as they claim. The Ciakara, a bipedal reptilian that fades in and out of gamma rays. The Ivory Dragon with......
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Alex Cullen
Categories:
abolitionist,
america, color, discrimination, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Freeman Cave
...I cherish my freedom Hard earned though it was Through the abolitionist railway And those who supported the cause An African slave, though free upon birth I was sold as a slave And was now b......
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Roger Turner
Categories:
abolitionist,
africa, america, freedom, prison,
Form:
Lyric
Olaudah Equiano
...OLAUDAH EQUIANO OLAUDAH EQUIANO Writer abolitionist From Igbo region Purchased his own freedom In 1766, prominent in British movement 2/11/18 written by James Edward Lee Sr.......
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James Edward Lee Sr.
Categories:
abolitionist,
adventure, appreciation, black african
Form:
Clerihew
John Brown
...JOHN BROWN John Brown Abolitionist found Against slavery Non-prejudicial nor in bigotry 1/9/18 By James Edward Lee Sr.......
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James Edward Lee Sr.
Categories:
abolitionist,
adventure, community, discrimination, hate,
Form:
Clerihew
Hiring a Linguist
...Hiring A Linguist Point Trump tried to make we had missed, Learned more after having hired a linguist, To find out, What about; Trump apparently had been an abolitionist. Jim Horn......
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James Horn
Categories:
abolitionist,
allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
The San Antonio Night Crossing
...“... The closeness of the place and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost s......
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Cyndi Macmillan
Categories:
abolitionist,
change, death, immigration, people,
Form:
Free verse
The First Abolitionist
...How shocked the first man must have felt Who saw the souls behind the eyes of slaves, As they silently marched down crowded streets, Making their way to market to be sold. He must have thought ......
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Nick Ruff
Categories:
abolitionist,
humanity, philosophy, slavery, society,
Form:
Blank verse
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