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Clint Smith III on confronting slavery s legacy in America
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A Timeline of U.S. Anti-War Movements
Anti-war movements date back to the birth of the United States.
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Anti-war movements date back to the birth of the United States.
The history of anti-war protests in the United States is as old as the country itself. Every war in American history even the one that spawned the country generated internal dissent from pacifists who rejected all wars and from citizens who objected to specific military conflicts on moral, religious, political and economic grounds. The following is a brief timeline of anti-war movements dating back to the birth of the republic.
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Nearly two centuries ago, as cholera made its way from Canadian ports down the Hudson River, New Yorkers scrounged for respite from and within an increasingly unlivable city. It was a time not dissimilar to ours. Some mostly white New Yorkers found refuge in the city’s patronage system, with political candidates in poorer wards securing votes by paying for ferries to transport constituents to “pleasure grounds” upstate. Others enjoyed exclusive “pleasure gardens,” outdoor havens which existed throughout the country but were especially prominent in New York. With much of the city’s resources restricted to the white and the wealthy, autonomous communities built their own sanctuaries; throughout the 1820s, on the outskirts of lower Manhattan, Black-owned pleasure gardens flourished. The spirit of these gardens joyful, recuperative, filled with wonder run through the work of artist and activist Tourmaline, permeating her dream
Letter: Southerners weren t traitors
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