A Coin which I am going to buy. John Brown Quarter

https://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/atb/?local=HarpersFerry

Just purchased one for my collection. A Proof grade.

Public Broadcasting System is showing a series titled "The Abolitionists"

The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) is showing a series titled "The Abolitionists." The following link is to a web page about the series.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/abolitionists/

They have video clips at the web page and a wealth of information.

I think this is wonderful. They were courageous individuals who changed our nation and set it on the path of abolishing slavery.

Segments of the series are online at You Tube.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+abolitionists&sm=1

I think that there is a cultural turning away from the "Gone With the Wind" mentality.

The abolitionists portrayed are, in order of appearance, Angelina Grimke', Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown.

It will be interesting to see how the public judges churches that enable neo-Confederate groups, in contrasting their lack of courage and concern with the heroic abolitionists.

John Wesley's book "Thoughts on Slavery" is available online free at Google Books

Google books has John Wesley's book, "Thoughts on Slavery."


http://books.google.com/books?id=iTdcAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=thoughts+on+slavery&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x6raUufkKYnOsAS1rYCIDQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=thoughts%20on%20slavery&f=false

In reading it you will soon figure out that the symbol "f" is used for the "s" sound. For example speaking is spelled "fpeaking."

I put this link in this blog and will do elsewhere as a benefit for the United Methodist Church who seems to have forgotten the anti-slavery views of John Wesley.