Ellen Smith Craft Quotes
I had much rather starve in England, a free woman, than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent
She had escaped, met and married another slave, and they cleverly escaped to England with her posing as the white owner of her husband. She was the daughter of a Black slave and her white master who kept his own daughter in bondage.
Ellen Smith Craft, 1826-1891, Escaped Slave
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The Parliament was debating the reaction to the Stamp Act by the American Colonies. One of the members, reflecting a majority view, asked sarcastically when the American Colonies had been emancipated so that they could make their own independent decisions. Pitt then hit this one out of the park by reversing the question.
Soon after, he led 960 men, women and children in a mass suicide at Masada.
Shortly after his presidential term expired:
Ernestine Louise Polowsky. Most abolitionists were not as concerned with female emancipation. Rose was one of the exceptions.
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This newspaper was an English language organ published by General Allenby’s British and Allied forces in the Middle East. Prior to the war, the Middle East was all part of the Ottoman Empire. However, the Ottoman Turks sided with Germany in WWI and their Middle East dominions were targets for the allied military strategy.
