#ABOLITIONIST

Letters for Liberation

@letters4liberation.bsky.social

1 day ago

A dark room with a single, bare incandescent lightbulb illuminating a small portion of a concrete wall in soft yellow light, casting a shadow on a cord that dangles. Gold and white text centered to the top half of the image displays a quote by Jean Casella and David Cloud: “The evidence is clear: Ending prolonged solitary confinement is a matter of prison and public safety, as well as humanity. The time to act upon this evidence is now.” Gold and white text in bottom fifth of the graphic reads: “read more in the Letters for Liberation Newsletter.”

This month's #newsletter highlights #abolitionist publications, including an op-ed written by Jean Casella of @solitarywatch.bsky.social and Dr. David Cloud of The Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice) cataloguing the harms of #SolitaryConfinement & urging #prisons to eliminate the practice.

Ludi Shadowspeaker Real Estate Extraordinaire

@shadowspeaker.bsky.social

4 days ago

William Lloyd Garrison didn't stutter. ✍️

Reason has its place, but there is no middle ground with tyranny. Some fights require resolve, not debate. A timeless reminder that standing firm on principle is the only way to move the needle on justice. ⚖️🔥 #Abolitionist #History #Principles

annmarie309.bsky.social

@annmarie309.bsky.social

1 week ago

John Brown fierce and controversial figure in fight against slavery in the UnitedStates. Born 1800, he developed a deep moral opposition to slavery early in life, viewing it as a profound injustice that required immediate action.

#JohnBrown #Abolitionist #CivilWar #AntiSlavery

MonriaTitans

@monriatitans.bsky.social

1 week ago

How Women Become Carceral Feminists YouTube video by Olurinatti

@olurinatti.bsky.social | Olurinatti: "How Women Become Carceral Feminists" | #Abuse #Abolitionist #Misogyny #MeganTheeStallion #ToryLanez #Misogynoir #PrisonIndustrialComplex #VilificationOfVictims #PublicLashing #RobinGivens #MikeTyson #TinaTurna #IkeTurner
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbhW...

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD

@liamomaraiv.bsky.social

1 week ago

During the #BleedingKansas period, where pro-#slavery and #abolitionist factions fought over the territory's future, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1855 the #BorderRuffians gang crossed in from #Missouri to commit crimes ranging from murder to #VoterFraud to make Kansas a slave state.

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@xoxohks.bsky.social

1 week ago

The cotton strike is particularly awesome.
#uk #abolitionist

vignette♾️💫

@viggymane.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

To spark & support meaningful connections between people inside and outside prison in a way that transforms us all, rooted in our #abolitionist belief that no one is disposable; Letters for #Liberation is a volunteer-run penpaling collective #harmreduction
lettersforliberation.org/become-a-pen...

Barb Drummond

@barbdrummond.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

#MemorialMonday @DavidLivingston #abolitionist @WestminsterAbbey

Marginalia Subversiva

@subversivemargin.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

the system failed us. i’m not asking for charity. i’m asking because we have no other option and checkout is now.

#SystemAbandonment #CripSolidarity #Abolitionist #MutualAidWorks

Catherine Kerrigan, Author

@catherinekerrigan.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Sojourner Truth: Abolitionist, women's rights activist. 'Ain't I a Woman?' Changed American history. Born into slavery, died free and famous. Her words echo still. #BlackHistory #Abolitionist

YNotWomen

@ynotwomen.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Mary Edwards Walker #surgeon #abolitionist #prohibitionist
#WomensHistoryMonth #MedalofHonor
bsky.app/profile/phoe...

AzFilmFest

@azfilmfest.bsky.social

1 month ago

WAIT...this poster just arrived.
AzIFF Alumni Tony Buba is sharing his latest film w/ Tucson
Benjamin is a
Abolitionist.
Quaker.
Sailor.
Dwarf.
Revolutionary.
& the film about his life is part of
the 34th #AzIFF April 17-26.
.
#AzIFF34
#BecomingBenjaminLay
#Abolitionist
#TonyBuba

@joannesbooks.bsky.social

1 month ago

In a land torn by a bloody civil war, a very forbidden love blossoms.
Magnolia Blossom
You won't be able to put this book down!
amzn.to/32PE82A
#forbiddenlove #love #lovetoread #amreading #abolitionist #romance #historicalfiction #joannesbooks

@warishellstore.bsky.social

1 month ago

Frederick Douglass Engraving - 1884 Photo Print
zurl.co/ep26G
#FrederickDouglass #Abolitionist #USHistory
#BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #Portrait #HomeDecor

Hilltown Families

@hilltownfamilies.bsky.social

1 month ago

Sojourner Truth in Northampton: Black History, Place, and the Making of an Activist - Hilltown Families Join public historian Tom Goldscheider of the David Ruggles Center at the Jones Library in Amherst to learn about Sojourner Truth’s formative years in Northampton and her growth as an abolitionist. Di...

Join public historian Tom Goldscheider of the David Ruggles Center at the Jones Library in Amherst #WesternMass to learn about Sojourner Truth’s formative years in Northampton and her growth as an #abolitionist. Discover how local #history and community helped shape her activism. #sojournertruth

Wee Walking Tours

@weewalkingtours.bsky.social

1 month ago

As today, February 20th, is recognised as the World Day of Social Justice, we felt that it would be more than fitting to acknowledge one of the most important leaders for the civil rights movement in the 19th century- Frederick Douglass. He was the leader of the abolitionist movement and a suffragist who devoted his life to social justice. Unfortunately, today also marks the anniversary of his passing. On February 20th, 1895, he died of a heart attack shortly after attending a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington D.C. He was later buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York, where he had lived for over twenty years. But, did you know that Frederick Douglass also lived in Scotland? He lived right here in Edinburgh, while travelling extensively across the United Kingdom in hopes of gathering more support for his abolitionist cause. Walter and Arthur are commemorating this day by posing in front of the plaque in the town of Hawick in the Scottish Borders. It was near this site that Frederick Douglass addressed the people of Hawick about the immorality of slavery on November 2nd, 1846. "Without a struggle, there can be no progress." ~ Frederick Douglass

Walter and Arthur are commemorating the World day of Social Justice by posing in front of the plaque for Frederick Douglass in the town of Hawick, Scotland.🐾💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿(See alt text for more important info on this)

#WorldDayOfSocialJustice #FrederickDouglass #Hawick #ScottishBorders #History #Abolitionist

Feministory

@feministory.bsky.social

1 month ago

Angelina Grimké Weld

2/20/1805 — b. Angelina Grimké Weld, American teacher, #womensrights pioneer, abolitionist, author. Wrote #abolitionist pamphlet "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South," many destroyed by Southern postmasters. Early wmn to address a state legislature #womenshistory #PolSky #EduSky #BHM #BOTD

Dustcircle

@dustcircle.bsky.social

1 month ago

Why African-Americans Loathe 'Uncle Tom' Folklorist Patricia Turner discusses "Uncle Tom" — the lead character in the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe — as part of NPR's In Character series. The se...

Why #AfricanAmericans Loathe ' #UncleTom'

Folklorist Patricia Turner discusses "Uncle Tom" — the lead character in the #antislavery #novel " #UncleTomsCabin" by #abolitionist #HarrietBeecherStowe — as part of @npr.org 's In Character series.

www.npr.org/2008/07/30/9...

Letters for Liberation

@letters4liberation.bsky.social

1 month ago

A dark green background with bright yellow text along the top of the visual that reads: “Letters for Liberation Spotlight.” Below this header is a photograph of Angela Davis posing to show a grey t-shirt featuring visuals and language representing the Black Power movement. Beneath the photograph is an Angela Davis quote: “Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings.” “#BlackHistoryMonth” is written in pale yellow at the bottom of the visual.

Black women have a long history of powering the #abolitionist movement. 👀 5 women we're spotlighting for their advocacy in abolishing ongoing slavery in the US 🧵

“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings.”
- Angela Davis

#BlackHistoryMonth #PrisonAbolition #Abolition

The African American Museum at the England Manor

@aam-em.bsky.social

1 month ago

Frederick Douglass - From Slave to Statesman Documentary Hello everyone! If you enjoyed the video, please help feed the algorithm by liking and commenting. This is very important as the more you like and comment on...

Frederick Douglass - From Slave to Statesman Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqDEuzVZ8ww

#FrederickDouglass #CivilRights #Abolitionist #BlackHistory #Empowerment #TheEnglandManor

Paul Dutton

@pdutts68.bsky.social

1 month ago

Incredible discovery: This dresser in NYC was part of the Underground Railroad YouTube video by NY1

Amazing piece of history.
#Abolitionist #NY

youtu.be/1mlByLhy8IE?...

Kezz 🇺🇸

@kezziejam.bsky.social

1 month ago

BREAKING: Congress Names Press Gallery After Frederick Douglass #blackhistory YouTube video by Black History Unfiltered

#FrederickDouglas #Abolitionist #FreedomOfThePress #BlackAmericanHistory2026 #100YearsOfCelebratingBlackAmericanHistory

youtube.com/shorts/FPNKR...

Greg Johnson

@pteranodo.bsky.social

1 month ago

Black quote card with a grayscale portrait of William Weston Patton on the left, showing an older man with a full white beard in formal 19th-century attire. Beneath the portrait, white text reads “WILLIAM WESTON PATTON (1821–1889)” and Slavery and Infidelity. On the right, a long white quotation argues that natural reason and conscience proclaim universal human accountability, affirming divine government and human responsibility, and linking moral duties to relationships—toward God and toward others such as family, neighbors, and fellow humans—so that every person becomes accountable for every act.

William Weston Patton, #Congregationalist abolitionist, said duty isn’t optional: it binds us to neighbours and strangers alike, and conscience already knows it. Which makes claims that slavery was “helpful” sound like moral yoga. What does your conscience know?
#abolitionist #christian

LindaAnn LoSchiavo

@ghostlyverse.bsky.social

1 month ago

Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in the borough.

🗽 Wealthy Joseph Brewster built a secret passage inside his NYC mansion to help slaves escape.
Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan
#abolitionist #MerchantsHouse
@bibliophile99.bsky.social @im-just-sayin.bsky.social @ceciliacopeland.bsky.social
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butchlesbianqueerfag

@bloodyyuri.bsky.social

1 month ago

Safe Haven | DISBOARD: Discord Server List THIS IS A NEW SERVER! IT IS STILL BEING SET UP (it is still usable ! :3)!!!!This server is a intersectional safe space for people who are compassionate, progressive leftists. We are radically inclusi…

disboard.org/server/14694... (the disboard link (3/3) #gay #lesbian #discord #transgender #leftist #furry #asexual #abolitionist #autism #neurodivergent #queer #feminismrocks #adhd #system #BIPOC #turigirl #lesboy #transman #transwoman #nonbinary #genderqueer #genderfluid #agender #lgbtqia+

vignette♾️💫

@viggymane.bsky.social

2 months ago

For more than three decades, Aid to Inmate Mothers has remained committed to strengthening families, supporting successful reentry, and reducing the long-term impact of #incarceration on women and children across Alabama. #abolition #anarkata #abolitionist

Weird Erie

@weirderie.bsky.social

2 months ago

These ruins remain of Abolitionist John Brown’s farmstead in Crawford County. He lived in our area from 1825 to 1835
#abolitionist #johnbrown

MakePoemsNotHate🥔

@mimiplevinfoust.bsky.social

2 months ago

The more I've learned about this outspoken, nonviolent radical, the more he's inspired me. Please tell your children, nieces or nephews about him.

#BenjaminLay #Quaker #Abolitionist #CreativeCourage
7/7

AutumnE56

@autumn55.bsky.social

2 months ago

Minneapolis’s 2020 Uprising Laid an Abolitionist Groundwork for ICE Resistance The George Floyd uprising laid foundations for the politicized networks of care that are organizing against ICE now.

#Minneapolis’s 2020 Uprising Laid an #Abolitionist #Groundwork for #ICE #Resistance

The #GeorgeFloyd #uprising laid #foundations for the #politicized #networks of care that are #organizing against ICE now.

truthout.org/articles/min...

Luke Hill

@masscommons.bsky.social

2 months ago

Adding: this was a critical part of the #abolitionist movement's success, building and sustaining ways of telling their own stories thru newspapers, magazines, & new kinds of books (fugitive #slave narratives). See: Andrew Delbanco's "The War Before The War".