well, I’m pretty sure the slaves were the abolitionist movement, since day 1 and were constantly resisting, but yeah he was definitely an early anglo abolitionist
You were the one who didn’t mention it, saying this white guy “was the abolition movement” in his area where there existed mass-slavery to be abolitionist against; which considering it does regularly get ignored in US discourse when speaking on slavery that the largest and longest-struggling contingent of active resistance and rebellions to abolish slavery were the slaves in their masses, instead favoring giving undue credit for the struggle against slavery and progress of abolition to individual white abolitionists among the colonizers in their often individualist acts, righteous though they may have been — it is is a significant omission, which serves to reinforce these hegemonic narrative frameworks of white supremacy and great man history. More people know hymns to John Brown than to Nat Turner and it deserves to be examined. More people know of individual “white” abolitionists and their acts than the Black slave rebels like Charles Deslondes or Gabriel Prosser and the mass struggles they led; and often reduce the masses of slaves to background noise in history compared to the acts of ‘a few good white men.’ It is always worth, when the masses of slaves are themselves reduced to background noise in the struggle against slavery, to re-center them.
Okay. I’ll edit my post to explicitly state the enslaved didn’t want to be enslaved. This dude was an abolitionist in the fucking 1730s while also being a dwarf and a vegan. ASIDE from the slaves themselves he was the abolitionist are you fucki g happy now? Do I really need to acknowledge that slaves were abolitionists? Both people you cited were a hundred years apart and also Both later than this guy. There is also something to be said for people standing up for what’s right hostorically even when thr benefit to themselves is literal slaves. Watch the video I linked, this dude was no coward. You’re trying to be corrective about something that is the underlying assumption of the abolitionist movement, if slaves wanted to be slaves the movement would have never started. So, known shut the fuck up
Could’ve done a Patty Hearst maneuver too, let the kid choose whether he wanted to join the abolitionist movement later on.
It was the early 1700s, he WAS the abolitionist movement in his area.
well, I’m pretty sure the slaves were the abolitionist movement, since day 1 and were constantly resisting, but yeah he was definitely an early anglo abolitionist
Yes, slaves were against slavery. Glad you let everyone know there.
You were the one who didn’t mention it, saying this white guy “was the abolition movement” in his area where there existed mass-slavery to be abolitionist against; which considering it does regularly get ignored in US discourse when speaking on slavery that the largest and longest-struggling contingent of active resistance and rebellions to abolish slavery were the slaves in their masses, instead favoring giving undue credit for the struggle against slavery and progress of abolition to individual white abolitionists among the colonizers in their often individualist acts, righteous though they may have been — it is is a significant omission, which serves to reinforce these hegemonic narrative frameworks of white supremacy and great man history. More people know hymns to John Brown than to Nat Turner and it deserves to be examined. More people know of individual “white” abolitionists and their acts than the Black slave rebels like Charles Deslondes or Gabriel Prosser and the mass struggles they led; and often reduce the masses of slaves to background noise in history compared to the acts of ‘a few good white men.’ It is always worth, when the masses of slaves are themselves reduced to background noise in the struggle against slavery, to re-center them.
Okay. I’ll edit my post to explicitly state the enslaved didn’t want to be enslaved. This dude was an abolitionist in the fucking 1730s while also being a dwarf and a vegan. ASIDE from the slaves themselves he was the abolitionist are you fucki g happy now? Do I really need to acknowledge that slaves were abolitionists? Both people you cited were a hundred years apart and also Both later than this guy. There is also something to be said for people standing up for what’s right hostorically even when thr benefit to themselves is literal slaves. Watch the video I linked, this dude was no coward. You’re trying to be corrective about something that is the underlying assumption of the abolitionist movement, if slaves wanted to be slaves the movement would have never started. So, known shut the fuck up