… liable to be hanged. They send him groping his way in the dark from time to eternity. This is upheld by the Church. He … is onward! But oh! what a sudden reversal! How dark and gloomy became my soul, when I heard they had another …
… whole physical power to bear against the slave if such an event should arise. (Cries of “Shame!”) The slave has no … education—the light of the Gospel shut out from the dark mind of the bondman—and he forbidden by law to learn to … being lifted abroad (loud cheers); that we are opening the dark cell, and leading the people into the horrible recesses …
… in every immigrant’s mind and serves as the foundational event of their collective identity. The conference examined a … Gekas illustrated how the parade evolved “from a ‘closed’ event in a theater that was reported in the local press as … raises the ethical question “how to commemorate an event significant for a people in a place associated with …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition