Tag: white privilege

• Bravery=Freedom

  

  What would you do if you saw a person you knew as an acquaintance being taken away by two strange men? John Price escaped from slavery in 1856 with few skills and in sorry health. When the residents of the utopian Christian town of Oberlin, Ohio took him in, they found Price odd jobs and…

  Adrienne Morris

  October 25, 2016

  Love, Men, United States History

  1858, abolition, Bravery, christianity ends slavery, Christians, Civil War, Dred Scott, john price, oberlin college, slavery, the rescuers, white privilege

• “Sympathy is no substitute for action.” David Livingstone

  Not every tenement dweller can become the David Livingstone of his generation, but what if that was put forth as the goal? In terms of disease, sanitation and real poverty 19th century tenements were far worse than the modern versions in most western nations today. I wonder if the attitude was better then or was…

  Adrienne Morris

  May 10, 2016

  19th Century Art, inspirational, men, Uncategorized

  black lives matter, Christianity, Civil War Heroes, exploring Africa, heroes, Stanley and Livingstone, victoria falls, white privilege