Slavery

Moscow-Pullman Daily News Letter to the Editor: “The Moscow pastor and his views on slavery”

Moscow-Pullman Daily News, September 26, 2019

“Andrew Crapuchettes, founder and CEO of Emsi, was interviewed and his story appeared this week in the Daily News. In the interview, he was asked why Doug Wilson and Christ Church were of concern to the Southern Poverty Law Center. He answered this way: ‘The short version is (someone asked our pastor if slavery is in the Bible). He said, “Yes, it is.”’ Well, that is a short answer. But it’s not a truthful one.” —Steve Wells Continue reading →

Thursday, September 26, 2019 |

Ira Berlin, 1941–2018

Moscow-Pullman Daily News, November 8, 2003

“All of the evidence that we have is that the slaves were extremely unhappy. The vast majority of the slaves wanted out and when they had the chance they got out.” —IRA BERLIN, award-winning author and professor at the University of Maryland Continue reading →

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 |

Decoration Day 1871: Frederick Douglass at Arlington National Cemetery, Near the Monument to the “Unknown Loyal Dead”

Frederick Douglass

“If we ought to forget a war which has filled our land with widows and orphans; which has made stumps of men of the very flower of our youth; which has sent them on the journey of life armless, legless, maimed and mutilated; which has piled up a debt heavier than a mountain of gold, swept uncounted thousands of men into bloody graves and planted agony at a million hearthstones — I say, if this war is to be forgotten, I ask, in the name of all things sacred, what shall men remember?”

Continue reading →

Monday, May 28, 2018 |

The Life of Martin Jackson: A Mother’s Day Post

drowning

“My mother was drowned years before when I was a little boy. I only remember her after she was dead. I can take you to the spot in the river today where she was drowned. She drowned herself. I never knew the reason behind it, but it was said she started to lose her mind and preferred death to that.” Continue reading →

Sunday, May 13, 2018 |

Frederick Douglass: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

Frederick Douglass

“What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.” —Frederick Douglass Continue reading →

Tuesday, July 4, 2017 |

Rejoicing with Dr. Bradley

On this day in history Robert E. Lee lost the Battle of Gettysburg and with it any hope of victory in the American Civil War. General Lee commanded 15,000 Confederates against 6,500 Union soldiers, and with this numerical advantage Lee demonstrated his superior tactical skills (by Southern standards) by sending thousands of Confederates to certain death in Pickett’s Charge. Union artillery batteries shredded Rebels for lunch that day. The Southern Presbyterians never had a prayer. Robert E. Lee lost the war on July 3, 1863, but he refused to surrender for 19 months.

Dr. Anthony Bradley tweeted this today:

Today MoscowID.net rejoices with Dr. Bradley.

Monday, July 3, 2017 |

Please Read This. . .

My Family’s Slave

By Alex Tizon

The ashes filled a black plastic box about the size of a toaster. It weighed three and a half pounds. I put it in a canvas tote bag and packed it in my suitcase this past July for the transpacific flight to Manila. From there I would travel by car to a rural village. When I arrived, I would hand over all that was left of the woman who had spent 56 years as a slave in my family’s household.

Her name was Eudocia Tomas Pulido. We called her Lola. She was 4 foot 11, with mocha-brown skin and almond eyes that I can still see looking into mine — my first memory. She was 18 years old when my grandfather gave her to my mother as a gift, and when my family moved to the United States, we brought her with us. . . . →

Eudocia Tomas Pulido — Lola

HT: @ReformedintheQT

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 |