Assuming my contextual guess at Fox and Penn was right, I was longwindedly trying to say what Windsparrow did briefly.
Yeah, well, I thought ita was saying clearly what I was (apparently) obfuscating. Bunch o' Quakers, they were. Not that George Fox and William Penn themselves were necessarily eloquent on the particular topic of slavery, nor yet that the Quakers were by any means the only group to oppose it, but I figured they would reasonably represent one form of human rights activists that fit in the period in question.
MG, does the instructor grade these projects in a reasonable fashion? By which I mean, does one get penalized for writing a woman's request to join the Mayflower?
Well, as it pertains to slavery, 100+ years after the law Mg is supposed to write about, women were becoming a powerful, public force for abolition, so I'm not sure it would be a problem to write as a woman in protest of this 1701 slavery law. If Abigail Adams could have had John's role in the 1770s, she would have outlawed slavery. Sixty or so years after
that,
the abolitionists and suffragettes were making common cause.
You know what? Google Phillis Wheatley. She's the first African American to be published (some time in the 1770s). She is a former slave who was freed. If you were to write in protest as an African American woman, I think it would make more historical sense if she were a free woman. Wheatley wasn't yet born, but I think she could serve as a model for a fictional writer.
Timelies!
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The coffee I'm drinking is terrible. I'm too lazy to make a new pot, though. So, I guess I'll enjoy my terrible coffee.
I think i migh have food poisoning.
lucky me.
Over-quickly -ma to you, Anne. And sorry.
(((Gud))) I'm so sorry all your efforts haven't had the effect you'd hoped. It can be like fighting a fog when the other party won't make any accomodation. You're a good man and a good dad, and work at being a good husband. Life isn't fair.
Why did they tell us life is ever fair, huh? It's like lying about Santa and the Easter Bunny. Why perpetuate the lie and then years later, yank the rug and go HA-ha! -?
Oh, Anne! That's awful. I hope you feel better soon.
I have found an absolutely lovely apartment that I want to go see. Why, oh why is our lease not up till September???
Emily is going to kill me. I just made an appointment for us to go see an apartment tomorrow.
Still feeling urpy, but I have ginger tea and white toast, courtesy of Mom. Boy it's nice having relatives in town.
I have yet to eat anything today, and to be honest, I'm not even sure that I want the toast, even though I'm hungry.
My apartment has no heat, and the guy who normally fixes the boiler is in Long Island. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Anne, try ice chips until you're feeling like you want solid food. Fennel tea is also good for calming the stomach.
