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This is an absolute slog, but it did teach me that it was Reverend Theodore Parker--not Martin Luther King, Jr--who first saw the moral arc of the universe bending toward justice.
— Nov 20, 2020 09:21AM
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This book continues to be mostly useless, but the descriptions of the Wide Awakes are fascinating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Aw...
— Nov 26, 2020 08:48AM
Punk
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This book is so bad. It just covered John Brown and his raid on Harpers Ferry, and it doesn't even bother to say how many men he had with him. (Wikipedia says 22.) It's not even very clear what his goal was. You have to take the words "federal arsenal" and "slave uprising" and do the math yourself.
— Nov 25, 2020 08:38AM
Punk
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Apparently for six years in the mid 1800s there was a Free-Soil Party. Keith keeps referring to the members as "Free-Soilers" and I would just like to take this opportunity to say no.
— Nov 15, 2020 09:23AM
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Wow, that prologue was like being dropped into the middle of the book. Not cool.
— Nov 14, 2020 08:59AM
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Nov 20, 2020 09:25AM
In an 1852 sermon, Parker wrote of the abolitionist movement: "I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice."
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