On this date in 1780, Pennsylvania became the second state to abolish slavery.
Reference:
Black First:
2,000 years of extraordinary achievement
by Jessie Carney Smith
Copyright 1994 Visible Ink Press, Detroit, MI
ISBN 0-8103-9490-1
Levi Coffin House (Underground Railroad) president Janice McGuire talks about slavery intersectionality then and now and the difficult but needed choices to act on ones beliefs
It is essential I remember
ours was a fair exchange.
We were a happy consequence
to paths of darkness
in a world
no less terrible or strange
for all our... MAN WHITE, BROWN GIRL AND ALL THAT JAZZ by Gloria C. Oden.
