Effecting change can sometimes take god-awful long. Fighting the good fight or getting in good trouble, as John Lewis called it, takes patience and perseverance. There is no better example than the long fight for universal suffrage. Howard Zinn’s today in history gives two events over a century apart that helped attain universal suffrage: Today,1780, Paul Cuffee (picture below) and other free Blacks petitioned the Massachusetts government to give African and Native Americans the right to vote. And again, almost 140 years later, yesterday, 1919, the National Woman’s Party burned President Woodrow Wilson in effigy in front of the White House in one of the most spectacular demonstrations for women’s voting rights during the campaign for the 19th Amendment. Check out these two stories in the links below. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/paul-cuffee-others-petition-to-vote
Thanks, Maestro. Yes, guys like Cuffe, Samuel Cornish, John Russwurm, James Forten, Benjamin Banneker, etc. fit well in the puzzle of U.S. history with the larger backdrop of Ottoman/Barbary enslavement of whites that was ongoing during the era.
Their ability to survive in America previously stuck out like a sore thumb, to me, before the Ottoman revelations.
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Effecting change can sometimes take god-awful long. Fighting the good fight or getting in good trouble, as John Lewis called it, takes patience and perseverance. There is no better example than the long fight for universal suffrage. Howard Zinn’s today in history gives two events over a century apart that helped attain universal suffrage: Today,1780, Paul Cuffee (picture below) and other free Blacks petitioned the Massachusetts government to give African and Native Americans the right to vote. And again, almost 140 years later, yesterday, 1919, the National Woman’s Party burned President Woodrow Wilson in effigy in front of the White House in one of the most spectacular demonstrations for women’s voting rights during the campaign for the 19th Amendment. Check out these two stories in the links below. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/paul-cuffee-others-petition-to-vote
Cuffe was an interesting guy Les. I want to research more on him. He was a devout, evangelical Quaker who became a philanthropist, and was very active in assisting free Blacks who wanted to emigrate to Sierra Leone. In 1811, he launched his first expedition to there, sailing with an all-African American crew to Freetown. While there Cuffe helped to establish “The Friendly Society of Sierra Leone,” a trading organization run by African Americans who had returned to West Africa.
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Thanks, Maestro. Yes, guys like Cuffe, Samuel Cornish, John Russwurm, James Forten, Benjamin Banneker, etc. fit well in the puzzle of U.S. history with the larger backdrop of Ottoman/Barbary enslavement of whites that was ongoing during the era.
Their ability to survive in America previously stuck out like a sore thumb, to me, before the Ottoman revelations.
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Effecting change can sometimes take god-awful long. Fighting the good fight or getting in good trouble, as John Lewis called it, takes patience and perseverance. There is no better example than the long fight for universal suffrage. Howard Zinn’s today in history gives two events over a century apart that helped attain universal suffrage: Today,1780, Paul Cuffee (picture below) and other free Blacks petitioned the Massachusetts government to give African and Native Americans the right to vote. And again, almost 140 years later, yesterday, 1919, the National Woman’s Party burned President Woodrow Wilson in effigy in front of the White House in one of the most spectacular demonstrations for women’s voting rights during the campaign for the 19th Amendment. Check out these two stories in the links below. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/paul-cuffee-others-petition-to-vote