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spazzmann

(748 posts) Thu Sep 13, 2012, 09:51 AM Sep 2012

Today in Peace and Justice history on September 13, 1858

A group of the citizens of Oberlin, Ohio, stopped Kentucky slavecatchers from kidnapping John Price, a black man. Shakespeare Boynton, son of a wealthy landowner had lured Price with the promise of work. Oberlinians, black and white, from town and from the local College, pursued the kidnappers to nearby Wellington at word of his abduction. . . continued > http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm photo: The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue

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Today in Peace and Justice history on September 13, 1858 (Original Post) spazzmann Sep 2012 OP

. n/t porphyrian Sep 2012 #1

And on the same day Richard Nixon went after the Jews garthranzz Sep 2012 #2

porphyrian

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1. . n/t

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Thu Sep 13, 2012, 09:52 AM

Sep 2012

garthranzz

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2. And on the same day Richard Nixon went after the Jews

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Thu Sep 13, 2012, 10:07 AM

Sep 2012

It's a bit further down in the scroll. Nauseating.

But Spazzmann, thanks for pointing our what happened in Oberlin. It raised my spirits. If citizens could stand up against physical slavery in 1858, maybe we can stand up against economic and informational slavery today. Thank you!

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