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🤔 “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.”  -- Winston Churchill  
🤔 “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.”  -- Winston Churchill  


🤔 "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed things up and creatures and then retreated back into their money, or their vast carelessness... and let other people clean up the mess."  -- Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby".   
🤔 "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed things up and creatures and then retreated back into their money, or their vast carelessness... and let other people clean up the mess."  -- Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby".  - As quoted in a apologetic article of American Imperialism in October, 2001: The Politics of Rage: Why Do ? https://www.newsweek.com/politics-rage-why-do-they-hate-us-154345  
 
* My critique of this article in 2004: https://bailey83221.livejournal.com/716.html
- As quoted in a apologetic article of American Imperialism in October, 2001: The Politics of Rage: Why Do ?  
 
https://www.newsweek.com/politics-rage-why-do-they-hate-us-154345  
 
My critique of this article in 2004: https://bailey83221.livejournal.com/716.html


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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
<center>--Alexis de Tocqueville</center>
<center>-- France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville</center>




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'''FIRST QUOTE:''' journalist I. F. Stone once wrote, "The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing - for the sheer fun and joy of it-to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it."<center>--Excerpt from the book: The Middle Mind Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves by Curtis White [http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/America/Middle_Mind.html http://www.thirdworldtraveler.<wbr></wbr>com/America/Middle_Mind.html]</center>
'''FIRST QUOTE:''' journalist I. F. Stone once wrote, "The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing - for the sheer fun and joy of it-to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it."<center>--Excerpt from the book: The Middle Mind Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves by Curtis White [http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/America/Middle_Mind.html http://www.thirdworldtraveler.<wbr></wbr>com/America/Middle_Mind.html]</center>


'''SECOND QUOUTE:''' Los Angeles Times:[http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0125-27.htm The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees] "...The reverberations from what happened on this spot, on the late afternoon of May 22, 1787, eventually caught the attention of millions of people around the world, including the first and greatest student of what today we call civil society. The result of the series of events begun that afternoon in London, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville decades later, was "absolutely without precedent…. If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary." The building that once stood at 2 George Yard was a bookstore and printing shop. The proprietor was James Phillips, publisher and printer for Britain's small community of Quakers. On that May afternoon, after the pressmen and typesetters had gone home for the day, 12 men filed through his doors. They formed themselves into a committee with what seemed to their fellow Londoners a hopelessly idealistic and impractical aim: ending first the slave trade and then slavery itself in the most powerful empire on Earth."
'''SECOND QUOUTE:''' "...The reverberations from what happened on this spot, on the late afternoon of May 22, 1787, eventually caught the attention of millions of people around the world, including the first and greatest student of what today we call civil society. The result of the series of events begun that afternoon in London, wrote France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville decades later, was "absolutely without precedent…. If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary." The building that once stood at 2 George Yard was a bookstore and printing shop. The proprietor was James Phillips, publisher and printer for Britain's small community of Quakers. On that May afternoon, after the pressmen and typesetters had gone home for the day, 12 men filed through his doors. They formed themselves into a committee with what seemed to their fellow Londoners a hopelessly idealistic and impractical aim: ending first the slave trade and then slavery itself in the most powerful empire on Earth." -- Los Angeles Times: [http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0125-27.htm The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees]


'''THIRD QUOTE: '''Zinn recently said: "My hope is that whatever you do to make a good life for yourself -- whether you become a teacher, or social worker, or business person, or lawyer, or poet, or scientist -- you will devote part of your life to making this a better world for your children, for all children. My hope is that your generation will demand an end to war, that your generation will do something that has not yet been done in history and wipe out the national boundaries that separate us from other human beings on this earth."<center>--From [http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0524-31.htm Against Discouragement]</center>'''FOURTH QUOTE: '''The struggle for justice should never be abandoned on the ground that it is hopeless, because of the apparent overwhelming power of those in the world who have the guns and the money and who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to their power. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, and patience—whether by blacks in Alabama and South Africa; peasants in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Vietnam; or workers and intellectuals in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. No cold calculation of the balance of power should deter people who are persuaded that their cause is just.<center>--From [http://sunrisedancer.com/radicalreader/library/declarationsofindependence/declarationsofindependence11.asp Declarations of Independence] Chapter 11: The Ultimate Power page 279</center>'''FIFTH QUOTE: '''“As [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618104690/qid==1124175094/sr==8-1/ref==pd_bbs_1/002-7300151-1151205?v==glance&s==books&n==507846 Adam Hochschild] points out, from the time the English Quakers first took on the issue of slavery, three quarters of a century passed before it was abolished it in Europe and America. Few if any working on the issue at the beginning lived to see its conclusion, when what had once seemed impossible suddenly began to look, in retrospect, inevitable.” “The African writer Laurens Van Der Post once said that no great new leaders were emerging because it was time for us to cease to be followers.”<center>--From the Excellent Article: TomDispatch:[http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid==677 Rebecca Solnit on hope in dark times]</center>
'''THIRD QUOTE: '''Zinn recently said: "My hope is that whatever you do to make a good life for yourself -- whether you become a teacher, or social worker, or business person, or lawyer, or poet, or scientist -- you will devote part of your life to making this a better world for your children, for all children. My hope is that your generation will demand an end to war, that your generation will do something that has not yet been done in history and wipe out the national boundaries that separate us from other human beings on this earth."<center>--From [http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0524-31.htm Against Discouragement]</center>'''FOURTH QUOTE: '''The struggle for justice should never be abandoned on the ground that it is hopeless, because of the apparent overwhelming power of those in the world who have the guns and the money and who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to their power. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, and patience—whether by blacks in Alabama and South Africa; peasants in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Vietnam; or workers and intellectuals in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. No cold calculation of the balance of power should deter people who are persuaded that their cause is just.<center>--From [http://sunrisedancer.com/radicalreader/library/declarationsofindependence/declarationsofindependence11.asp Declarations of Independence] Chapter 11: The Ultimate Power page 279</center>'''FIFTH QUOTE: '''“As [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618104690/qid==1124175094/sr==8-1/ref==pd_bbs_1/002-7300151-1151205?v==glance&s==books&n==507846 Adam Hochschild] points out, from the time the English Quakers first took on the issue of slavery, three quarters of a century passed before it was abolished it in Europe and America. Few if any working on the issue at the beginning lived to see its conclusion, when what had once seemed impossible suddenly began to look, in retrospect, inevitable.” “The African writer Laurens Van Der Post once said that no great new leaders were emerging because it was time for us to cease to be followers.”<center>--From the Excellent Article: TomDispatch:[http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid==677 Rebecca Solnit on hope in dark times]</center>
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'''Another quote:''' “a number of famous mainland Chinese dissidents find themselves in the paradoxical position of a backyard bush that blooms on the neighbour’s side of the wall: enjoying great international fame but not recognised by the general public in their own country, known only within a small circle of people”.[http://www.economist.com/blogs/asiaview/2010/10/nobel_peace_prize [2]]
'''Another quote:''' “a number of famous mainland Chinese dissidents find themselves in the paradoxical position of a backyard bush that blooms on the neighbour’s side of the wall: enjoying great international fame but not recognised by the general public in their own country, known only within a small circle of people”.[http://www.economist.com/blogs/asiaview/2010/10/nobel_peace_prize [2]]


==== Alexis de Tocqueville ====
==== France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville ====


Also see: [http://www.dead-rising-wiki.com/wiki/Tocqueville Tocqueville]
Also see: [http://www.dead-rising-wiki.com/wiki/Tocqueville Tocqueville]


'''I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. '''The Americans, in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise...They unceasingly harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their entreaties they fall to praising themselves. It would seem as if, doubting their own merit, they wished to have it constantly exhibited before their eyes. It seems, at first sight, as if all the minds of the Americans were formed upon one model, so accurately do they correspond in their manner of judging. A stranger does, indeed, sometimes meet with Americans who dissent from these rigorous formularies; with men who deplore the defects of the laws, the mutability and the ignorance of democracy; who even go so far as to observe the evil tendencies which impair the national character, and to point out such remedies as it might be possible to apply; but no one is there to hear these things besides yourself, and you, to whom these secret reflections are confided, are a stranger and a bird of passage. They are very ready to communicate truths which are useless to you, but they continue to hold a different language in public. In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting... As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
'''I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. '''The Americans, in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest disapproval (censure) and impossible to satisfy hunger for praise (insatiable) ...They unceasingly harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their humble request (entreaties) they fall to praising themselves. It would seem as if, doubting their own merit, they wished to have it constantly exhibited before their eyes.  
 
It seems, at first sight, as if all the minds of the Americans were formed upon one model, so accurately do they correspond in their manner of judging.  
 
A stranger does, indeed, sometimes meet with Americans who dissent from these rigid beliefs (rigorous formularies); with men who deplore the defects of the laws, the ability to change (mutability) and the ignorance of democracy; who even go so far as to observe the evil tendencies which impair the national character, and to point out such remedies as it might be possible to apply
 
But no one is there to hear these things besides yourself, and you, to whom these secret reflections are confided, are a stranger and a bird of passage. Americans are very ready to communicate truths which are useless to you, but they continue to hold a different language in public. In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.  
 
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Americans are so filled with love for (enamored) with equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.  
 
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting...  
 
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: How much money will it bring in?
<center> -- Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America. 1835.</center>


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[[Alexis de Tocqueville|Biography]] of Alexis de Tocqueville Download Tocqueville's three books for free: [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/815 Democracy in America — Volume 1] [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/816 Democracy in America — Volume 2][http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8690 American Institutions and Their Influence]
[[Alexis de Tocqueville|Biography]] of France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville Download Tocqueville's three books for free: [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/815 Democracy in America — Volume 1] [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/816 Democracy in America — Volume 2][http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8690 American Institutions and Their Influence]


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<center>--Albert Einstein [http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0806-01.htm Hiroshima: A Mistake and A Crime]</center>
<center>--Albert Einstein [http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0806-01.htm Hiroshima: A Mistake and A Crime]</center>


====Zinn====
====Howard Zinn====


Zinn quotes Kissinger in his first chapter, on page 9: ""History is the memory of states," wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored, in which he proceeded to tell the history of nineteenth-century Europe from the viewpoint of the leaders of Austria and England, ignoring the millions who suffered from those statesmen's policies. From his standpoint, the "peace" that Europe had before the French Revolution was "restored" by the diplomacy of a few national leaders. But for factory workers in England, farmers in France, colored people in Asia and Africa, women and children everywhere, except in the upper classes, it was a world of conquest, violence, hunger, exploitation -- a world not restored but disintegrated."
Zinn quotes Kissinger in his first chapter, on page 9: ""History is the memory of states," wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored, in which he proceeded to tell the history of nineteenth-century Europe from the viewpoint of the leaders of Austria and England, ignoring the millions who suffered from those statesmen's policies. From his standpoint, the "peace" that Europe had before the French Revolution was "restored" by the diplomacy of a few national leaders. But for factory workers in England, farmers in France, colored people in Asia and Africa, women and children everywhere, except in the upper classes, it was a world of conquest, violence, hunger, exploitation -- a world not restored but disintegrated."
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https://quaker.org/legacy/co/Writings/JustAndUnjustWar.htm


====  Chomsky ====
:''As one of Zinn's book titles states: "You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train"


"Cuba has probably been the target of more international terrorism than the rest of the world combined and, therefore, in the American ideological system it is regarded as the source of international terrorism, exactly as Orwell would have predicted."
Howard Zinn is an author best known for the book, "A People's History of the United States".  


<center>---Source: Talk titled "American Foreign Policy" Naom Chomsky at Harvard University ([http://www.chomsky.info/talks/19850319.htm http://www.chomsky.info/talks<wbr></wbr>/19850319.htm]), March 19, 1985</center>
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In World War 2, a passing conversation with an warplane gunner changed Howard Zinn's life forever. Zinn argued that America was not imperialist and went away troubled with what this stranger said. Two weeks later this warplane gunner was shot down and killed. Decades later Zinn became an anti-war activist and author of the seminal "A People's History of the United States" This bombardier never truly knew the last legacy of love and peace he created in this world.


"No less insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. '''If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism.''' We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression."
Just and Unjust War excerpt:


<center>--Source: American Power and the New Mandarins, 1969 Naom Chomsky</center><blockquote>Wikiquote on Chomsky [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N<wbr></wbr>oam_Chomsky] Wikipedia on Chomsky [[noam Chomsky|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N<wbr></wbr>oam_Chomsky]]</blockquote>
[Zinn] flew the last bombing missions of the war, got my Air Medal and my battle stars. I was quietly proud of my participation in the great war to defeat fascism. But when I packed up my things at the end of the war and put my old navigation logs and snapshots and other mementos in a folder, I marked that folder, almost without thinking, "Never Again."


====20th century bogymen====
I'm still not sure why I did that, because it was not until years later that I began consciously to question the motives, the conduct, and the consequences of that crusade against fascism. The point was not that my abhorrence of fascism was in any way diminished. I still believed something had to be done to stop fascism. But that clear certainty of moral rightness that propelled me into the Air Force as an enthusiastic bombardier was now clouded over by many thoughts.


"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."---Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Fascist Dictator of Italy
Perhaps my conversations with that gunner on the other crew, the one who loaned me The Yogi and the Commisar, gave me the first flickers of doubt. He spoke of the war as "an imperialist war," fought on both sides for national power. Britain and the United States opposed fascism only because it threatened their own control over resources and people. Yes, Hitler was a maniacal dictator and invader of other countries. But what of the British Empire and its long history of wars against native peoples to subdue them for the profit and glory of the empire? And the Soviet Union--was it not also a brutal dictatorship, concerned not with the working classes of the world but with its own national power?


"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
I was puzzled. "Why," I asked my friend, "are you flying missions, risking your life, in a war you don't believe in?" His answer astonished me. "I'm here to speak to people like you."
 
I found out later he was a member of the Socialist Workers party; they opposed the war but believed that instead of evading military service they should enter it and propagandize against the war every moment they could. I couldn't understand this, but I was impressed by it. Two weeks after that conversation with him, he was killed on a mission over Germany.    https://quaker.org/legacy/co/Writings
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====  Chomsky ====
 
"Cuba has probably been the target of more international terrorism than the rest of the world combined and, therefore, in the American ideological system it is regarded as the source of international terrorism, exactly as Orwell would have predicted."
 
<center>---Source: Talk titled "American Foreign Policy" Naom Chomsky at Harvard University ([http://www.chomsky.info/talks/19850319.htm http://www.chomsky.info/talks<wbr></wbr>/19850319.htm]), March 19, 1985</center>
 
"No less insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. '''If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism.''' We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression."
 
<center>--Source: American Power and the New Mandarins, 1969 Naom Chomsky</center><blockquote>Wikiquote on Chomsky [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N<wbr></wbr>oam_Chomsky] Wikipedia on Chomsky [[noam Chomsky|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N<wbr></wbr>oam_Chomsky]]</blockquote>
 
====20th century bogymen====
 
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."---Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Fascist Dictator of Italy
 
"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."


<center>--Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II</center>
<center>--Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II</center>
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<blockquote>--[http://www.davidsirota.com/2005/07/nominee-john-g-roberts-r-corporate.html Sirotablog]</blockquote>
<blockquote>--[http://www.davidsirota.com/2005/07/nominee-john-g-roberts-r-corporate.html Sirotablog]</blockquote>


The media do not necessarily tell your what to think, but they tell you what to think about, and how to think about it.
The media do not necessarily tell your what to think, but they tell you what to think about, and how to think about it. --The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism Robert McChesney http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/34586.html  
 
<blockquote>--[http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/34586.html The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism] Robert McChesney</blockquote>


It is often noted that democracy requires journalism; what is less frequently emphasized is that journalism requires democracy. Unless there is strong political culture there will be little demand for excellent journalism.
It is often noted that democracy requires journalism; what is less frequently emphasized is that journalism requires democracy. Unless there is strong political culture there will be little demand for excellent journalism.
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==== How America silents dissent ====
==== How America silents dissent ====
''No man can struggle with advantage against the spirit of his age and country, and however powerful a man may be, it is hard for him to make his contemporaries share feelings and ideas which run counter to the general run of their hopes and desires.''
''No man can struggle with advantage against the spirit of his age and country, and however powerful a man may be, it is hard for him to make his contemporaries share feelings and ideas which run counter to the general run of their hopes and desires.''
:<center>--Alexis de Tocqueville</center>
:<center>--France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville</center>


"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."  --Mark Twain  
"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."  --Mark Twain  
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'''Steal this Book''' is a book written by Abbie Hoffman in 1970. It explains how to fight the government through illegal activities.  I have strongly considered updating the book with only legal activities to subvert the federal government.
'''Steal this Book''' is a book written by Abbie Hoffman in 1970. It explains how to fight the government through illegal activities.  I have strongly considered updating the book with only legal activities to subvert the federal government.
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= Peace is possible =
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'''''TONIGHT''' I will be Talking about a journey.  The journey we all take together, as a species.  How we, as a human race, can literally change the world.''
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On May 22, 1787 twelve men met to abolish the slave trade worldwide. In one short generation the British Empire abolished slavery, paving the way for worldwide abolishment of slavery.
A world without war '''is''' possible.
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==The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade==
In 1787, approximately three quarters of the people on Earth lived under some form of enslavement, serfdom, debt bondage or indentured servitude.  There were no slaves in Britain itself, but the vast majority of its people accepted slavery in the British West Indies as perfectly normal.
The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade was a British abolitionist group, formed on 22 May 1787, by twelve men who gathered together at a printing shop in London, England.  Within their lifetimes they saw slavery be abolished in Britain. (NOTE:  The Society achieved abolition of the international slave trade in 1807, enforced by the British Navy. The United States also prohibited the African slave trade that year, to take effect in 1808. Within their lifetimes these twelve men abolished slavery.
It later was superseded by development of the Anti-Slavery Society in 1823, which worked to abolish the institution of slavery throughout the British colonies.  Abolition was passed by parliament in 1833 with emancipation completed by 1838.
1833-1787 = 46 years)
; A Call to Action
''This effort can be repeated today with American Foreign Policy. This can be done by actively positively encouraging our leaders to instead invest the money into our communities. Start with your congressional district today. Ask your leader to support peace, and tell them if they continue to vote for war you will reluctantly start a guerrilla marking campaign to alert the public that this congressman is someone who does not support bringing our war dollars home to your community.''
==The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees==
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The reverberations from what happened on this spot, on the late afternoon of May 22, 1787, eventually caught the attention of millions of people around the world, including the first and greatest student of what today we call civil society. The result of the series of events begun that afternoon in London, wrote France. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville decades later, was "absolutely without precedent...If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary."
The building that once stood at 2 George Yard was a bookstore and printing shop. The proprietor was James Phillips, publisher and printer for Britain's small community of Quakers. On that May afternoon, after the pressmen and typesetters had gone home for the day, 12 men filed through his doors. They formed themselves into a committee with what seemed to their fellow Londoners a hopelessly idealistic and impractical aim: ending first the slave trade and then slavery itself in the most powerful empire on Earth." (NOTE: Hochschild, Adam. (January 25, 2005) The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees Retrieved from:  http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/25/opinion/oe-hochschild25 )
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<u>Internationally, the United States is the most violent country in the world.</u>
My career ambitions are two pronged in 2020. First, I either will work for a Russian think tank such as the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) in consulting or writing policy papers on how Russia can subvert the United States economically. Alternatively we will create our own state-sanctioned Russian think tank to abolish copyright in Russia among other activities. 
I anchor much of what I seek to accomplish in the inspiring turn of events of May 1787, in which only twelve London men formed the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and abolished slavery in the British Empire worldwide within one generation. As the late anthropologist Margaret Mead states, ''Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has''. Today, war can be abolished the same way that slavery was two hundred years ago. 
This firm belief in peace is based on a long history of living abroad. I was living in Odessa, Ukraine in the Peace Corps when the terrorists hit the World Trade Center. I had an Arab friend from Dubai who was the kindest, most honorable, most incredible man I have ever met in my entire life.  A couple of days after 9/11, I was walking on the warm promenade of the port city of Odessa with Jaz.  In a low tone that was so foreign, he said, "If they [Americans] come to my country, I will kill them". I was shocked, how could the gentlest man I ever met hate America so much?   
That question haunted me even after I returned to America.  After the Peace Corps, I earned a Juris Doctorate concurrent with a Masters in International Relations. In law school I wrote what would later become my second published book "<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Other-War-Terrorizing-Colombia/dp/3659929875 America’s Other War, Terrorizing Colombia]" which was published in 2017.  To answer why my gentle Arab friend hated America,  I wrote a SPSS white paper called, “[http://moscowamerican.com/index.php/Origins_of_Anti-Americanism_A_Framework_for_Analysis Why do They Hate Us? Origins of Anti-Americanism A Framework for Analysis]”.</span>
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===Helping support the Guatemala syphilis experiment lawsuit===
I passed the D.C. law bar in 2009 and started my legal career with the US Federal Government in DC.  The breaking point with this job was I was working with another attorney to defend the government in the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiments#Lawsuits Guatemala syphilis experiment case]</span>,  a case in which United States government doctors intentionally and covertly infected Guatemalans with syphilis.  I quit shortly afterward in disgust. 
After years of research and writing, I decided the only way to influence American foreign policy was outside of the United States. I moved back to Moscow in September 2018. 
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== Further Information ==
;Britain's legacy of slavery
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== Nonprofit ==
==Vision==
'''Motto:''' "A Peaceful World is Possible" (Note: <!--
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[https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/structure/strategic-planning/vision-mission-statements/main Section 2. Proclaiming Your Dream: Developing Vision and Mission Statements]<br><br>Your vision is your dream. It's what your organization believes are the ideal conditions for your community; that is, how things would look if the issue important to you were completely, perfectly addressed. It might be a '''world without war'''... ''(emphasis my own)'' )
'''Alternative:''' "Invest in America First"
==Mission==
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To create a peaceful world by pressuring local United States representatives in Congress to vote for peace or lose  in the next election. 
(Note: [https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/structure/strategic-planning/vision-mission-statements/main Section 2. Proclaiming Your Dream: Developing Vision and Mission Statements]<br><br>Mission statements are similar to vision statements, in that they, too, look at the big picture. However, they're more concrete, and they are definitely more "action-oriented" than vision statements. Your vision statement should inspire people to dream; your mission statement should inspire them to action.<br><br>The mission statement might refer to a problem, such as an inadequate housing, or a goal, such as providing access to health care for everyone. And, while they don 't go into a lot of detail, they start to hint - very broadly - at how your organization might fix these problems or reach these goals. )
==Objectives==
Internationally, the United States is the most violent country in the world. 
The goal of May 1787 Political Action Committee is to change American foreign policy for the purpose of:
*  Investing more money domestically instead of internationally. 
*  [Stop terrorism blowback]
Our goal is to put extreme pressure on targeted Congressmen to vote for Peace or lose in their next election. Using the National Rifle Association as a guide, we will support pro-peace candidates, '''regardless of their party affiliation'''.
==Strategies==
==Action Plans==
==Quotes==
* Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame. — Amnesty International. 1996.
* ... A "conservative estimate is (that the United States has killed) at least 6 million civilians and soldiers (since the end of World War 2)." — [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-we-ignore-the-civilians-killed-in-american-wars/2011/12/05/gIQALCO4eP_story.html The Washington Post].
==Gallery==
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===Powerpoint presentation===
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! Congressional Military-Industrial Complex
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! The Six organizations which support the status quo of war.
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! Military
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! Corporations
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! Education
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! Foreign Governments
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! The government is the most influenced by grassroots organizations.
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===Logos===
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==See also==
* [[Peace: Resume for Amnesty International]]
== External links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Effecting_the_Abolition_of_the_Slave_Trade  Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade] The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and sometimes referred to as the Abolition Society or Anti-Slavery Society, was a British abolitionist group formed on 22 May 1787.
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The '''Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade''', also known as the '''Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade''', and sometimes referred to as the '''Abolition Society''' or '''Anti-Slavery Society,''' was a [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|British abolitionist]] group formed on 22 May 1787.  Slavery was abolished in all Britain colonies in 1833 as a result.
Historians posit that this anti-slavery movement is the first peaceful social movement which all modern social movements are built upon.
The society was established by twelve men; including prominent campaigners [[Thomas Clarkson]] and [[Granville Sharp]], who, as [[Anglican]]s, were able to be more influential in [[Parliament of Great Britain|Parliament]] than the more numerous [[Quaker]] founding members. The society worked to educate the public about the abuses of the [[slave]] trade, and achieved abolition of the [[international slave trade]]  when the [[British Parliament]] passed the [[Slave Trade Act 1807]], at which time the society ceased its activities. (The United States also prohibited the [[African slave trade]] the same year, to take effect in 1808.)
In 1823 the [[Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions]] (also known as the Anti-Slavery Society) was founded, which worked to abolish the institution of slavery throughout the British colonies. Abolition was passed by parliament in 1833 (except in India, where it was [[slavery in India|part of the indigenous culture]]); with emancipation completed by 1838.
== Historical background  ==
{{Slavery}}
[[1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery|The first anti-slavery statement]] was written by Dutch and German [[Quakers]], who met at [[Colonial Germantown Historic District|Germantown]], [[Pennsylvania]] in 1688. English [[Quaker]]s began to express their official disapproval of the [[slave trade]] in 1727 and promote reforms. From the 1750s, a number of Quakers in Britain's [[Thirteen Colonies|American colonies]] also began to oppose slavery, and called on English Quakers to take action with parliament. They encouraged their fellow citizens, including Quaker slave owners, to improve conditions for slaves, educate their slaves in [[Christianity]], reading and writing, and gradually emancipate (free) them.{{cn|date=December 2020}}
An informal group of six Quakers pioneered the British abolitionist movement in 1783 when the London [[Religious Society of Friends|Society of Friends']] yearly meeting presented its petition against the [[Atlantic slave trade|slave trade]] to [[British parliament|Parliament]], signed by over 300 Quakers. They were also influenced by publicity that year about the [[Zong massacre]], as the shipowners were litigating a claim for insurance against losses due to more than 132 slaves having been killed on their ship.{{cn|date=December 2020}}
== Foundation ==
"In 1787, approximately three quarters of the people on Earth lived under some form of enslavement, serfdom, debt bondage or indentured servitude. There were no slaves in Britain itself, but the vast majority of its people accepted slavery in the British West Indies as perfectly normal."
(Note: Adam Hochschild. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/abolitionists_gallery.shtml The Unsung Heroes of Abolition]. )
The Quakers decided to form a small, committed, non-denominational group so as to gain greater [[Church of England]] and Parliamentary support. The new, non-denominational committee formed in 1787 had nine [[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]] members and three [[Anglicanism|Anglicans]]. As Quakers were not prepared to receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the Church of England, they were [[Test Act|not permitted]] to serve as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Members of Parliament]], having Anglican members strengthened the committee's likelihood of influencing Parliament.
(Note: hoi  The new society was named the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, later often referred to simply as  the Abolition Society.
(Note: mylearning Source: title=The Abolition Movement  | website=MyLearning | url=https://www.mylearning.org/stories/william-wilberforce/174 | access-date=20 December 2020}} )
{{quote|The reverberations from what happened on this spot, on the late afternoon of 22 May 1787, eventually caught the attention of millions of people around the world, including the first and greatest student of what today we call civil society. The result of the series of events begun that afternoon in London, wrote French political philosopher France. Frenchman [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] decades later, was "absolutely without precedent...If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary".
The building that once stood at 2 George Yard was a bookstore and printing shop. The proprietor was [[James Phillips (abolitionist)|James Phillips]], publisher and printer for Britain's small community of [[Quakers]]. On that May afternoon, after the pressmen and typesetters had gone home for the day, 12 men filed through his doors. They formed themselves into a committee with what seemed to their fellow Londoners a hopelessly idealistic and impractical aim: ending first the slave trade and then slavery itself in the most powerful empire on Earth." -- [[Los Angeles Times]]:The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees.
(Note: "Hochschild 2005"  last=Hochschild | first=Adam | title=The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees | website=Los Angeles Times | date=2005-01-25 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jan-25-oe-hochschild25-story.html | access-date=2020-12-20}} ) )
=== Membership ===
Nine of the twelve founding members of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, or The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, were Quakers:
(Note: hoi Source:  title=Foundation of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade| website=History of Information | url=https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3700  | access-date=20 December 2020}} )
# [[John Barton (quaker)|John Barton]] (1755–1789);
# [[William Dillwyn]] (1743–1824);
# [[George Harrison (Quaker) | George Harrison ]] (1747–1827);
# [[Samuel Hoare Jr]] (1751–1825);
# [[Joseph Hooper]] (1732–1789);
# [[John Lloyd]];
# [[Joseph Woods (abolitionist)|Joseph Woods]] Sr (1738–1812);
# [[James Phillips (Quaker)| James Phillips]] (1745–1799); and
# [[Richard Phillips (Quaker)| Richard Phillips]].
(Note:  Source:  author=Leo D'Anjou |title=Social Movements and Cultural Change: The First Abolition Campaign |year=1996 |publisher=Aldine de Gruyter |isbn= 978-0-202-30522-6 |page=198}} )
Five of the Quakers had been amongst the informal group of six Quakers who had pioneered the movement in 1783, when the first petition against the slave trade was presented to Parliament.
Three Anglicans were founding members:
# [[Thomas Clarkson]], campaigner and author of an influential essay against the slave trade;
# [[Granville Sharp]] (Lawyer - had long been involved in the support and prosecution of cases on behalf of [[slaves|enslaved Africans]]); and
# [[Philip Sansom]].
(Note:  anjou )
==Mission and activities==
[[File:Official medallion of the British Anti-Slavery Society (1795).jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Am I Not a Man and a Brother?|"Am I Not A Man And A Brother?"]] medallion created as part of anti-slavery campaign by [[Josiah Wedgwood]], 1787]]
The society did not aim at ending slavery altogether, but only to abolish British involvement in the [[international slave trade]]. They would do this by awareness-raising campaigns highlighting some of the cruel practices involved in the trade.(Note: mylearning )
The mission of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was to inform the public of the inhuman and immoral treatment of [[slaves|enslaved Africans]] committed in the name of slavery, to campaign in favour of a new law to abolish the [[slave trade]] and enforce this throughout the [[British Empire]]. The society's methods for pursuing its goals included writing and publishing anti-slavery books, abolitionist prints, [[posters]] and [[pamphlets]], and organising [[public lecture|lecture tours]] in the towns and cities of England. Clarkson's ''Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade'', published in 1788, was one of the first books of the subject. (Note: hoi )
Petitions were presented to the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] (over 100 in 1788)
(Note:  odnb anti-slavery [[demonstration (people)|rallies]] held, and a range of anti-slavery [[medallions]], crockery and bronze figurines were made, notably with the support of the Unitarian potter [[Josiah Wedgwood]] whose production of pottery [[medallion]]s featuring a slave in chains with the simple but effective question: "Am I not a man and a brother?" was very effective in bringing public attention to abolition. )
(Note: url=http://www.thepotteries.org/did_you/005.htm|title= Did you know? - Josiah Wedgwood was a keen advocate of the slavery abolition movement|website=thepotteries.org| access-date=20 December 2020}} )
(Note: The Wedgwood medallion was the most famous image of a black person in all of 18th-century art. )
(Note:  Source: title      = British History - Abolition of the Slave Trade 1807| url        = http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/africans_in_art_gallery_02.shtml| publisher  = [[BBC]]
| access-date  = 2009-04-11| quote      = The Wedgwood medallion was the most famous image of a black person in all of 18th-century art.}} )
Clarkson wrote; "ladies wore them in bracelets, and others had them fitted up in an ornamental manner as pins for their hair. At length the taste for wearing them became general, and thus fashion, which usually confines itself to worthless things, was seen for once in the honourable office of promoting the cause of justice, humanity and freedom".
(Note:  Source:  title      = Wedgwood |url        = http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REwedgwood.htm |access-date  = 2009-07-13 |quote      = Thomas Clarkson wrote; ladies wore them in bracelets, and others had them fitted up in an ornamental manner as pins for their hair. At length the taste for wearing them became general, and thus fashion, which usually confines itself to worthless things, was seen for once in the honourable office of promoting the cause of justice, humanity and freedom. |url-status    = dead |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090708094050/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REwedgwood.htm |archive-date = 8 July 2009}} )
By educating the public, the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade gained many members. In 1787, Clarkson's speaking tour of the great ports and cities of England raised public interest. Publication of the African [[Olaudah Equiano]]'s [[autobiography]] heightened public awareness, as the former slave expressed an unanswerable case against slavery in a work of literary merit. In 1789 Clarkson's promoted the committee's cause by encouraging the sale of Equiano's memoir and inviting the former slave to lecture in British ports linked to the slave trade.
[[William Wilberforce]] introduced the first Bill to abolish the slave trade in 1791, which was defeated by 163 votes to 88.
(Note: hoi As Wilberforce continued to bring the issue of the slave trade before Parliament, Clarkson and others on the Committee travelled, raised funds, lobbied, and wrote anti-slavery works. They conducted a protracted parliamentary campaign, during which Wilberforce introduced a motion in favour of abolition almost every year.
==Membership==
The committee was later joined by the Quaker philanthropist [[William Allen (English Quaker)|William Allen]], who worked closely with Wilberforce and with his fellow Quaker members,{{cn|date=December 2020}} and Wilberforce's fellow members of the [[Clapham Sect]] were subscribers to the society as well
(Note:  Source: title=The role of the Clapham Sect in the fight for the abolition of slavery | website=Art UK | date=10 August 2020 | url=https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-role-of-the-clapham-sect-in-the-fight-for-the-abolition-of-slavery# | access-date=20 December 2020}} )
===Female membership===
According to Claire Midgley (2004), the proportion of female subscribers to the society was typical of philanthropic societies of the time. Across the whole society, female subscribers comprised about 10 per cent of the membership, while in some centres, notable [[Manchester]] (with 68 women, or nearly a quarter of the total), the percentage was higher. Some of the most identifiable women were members of leading Quaker families, such as the wife of William Dillwyn, Sarah; others were members of the [[Clapham Sect]] and also members of the [[African Institution]], and others were members of wealthy [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] families in Manchester.
(Note: midgley Source: last=Midgley | first=Claire | title=Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870 | publisher=[[Routledge]], [[Taylor & Francis]] | year=2004 | isbn=978-1-134-79880-3 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hgaFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 | access-date=7 January 2021 | page=20|chapter=2. Participants from the first}} ) )
By 1788 there were 206 female subscribers.
(Note:  Source: title=Women & Women's Groups: The Abolition of Slavery Project | website=The Abolition of Slavery Project | url=http://abolition.e2bn.org/people_38.html | access-date=7 January 2021}} )
One prominent female subscriber was writer and polymath [[Elizabeth Carter]].
(Note:  odnb  Source: url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-92867|title=Society for the Purpose of Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade|first=G.M.|last=Ditchfield|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/92867|date=24 May 2007}} ) )
==Related societies==
Several members of the society also subscribed to the [[African Institution]] (founded 1807 to create a viable, civilised refuge for freed slaves in [[Sierra Leone]]
(Note: Source: last=African Institution (London | first=England) | title=Report of the Committee of the African Institution | publisher=Ellerton and Henderson | issue=v. 2 | year=1812 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oaARAAAAIAAJ | access-date=7 January 2021 | page=}} ).
(Note:  odnb  The [[Sons of Africa]] abolitionist society had a membership of educated Londoners, mostly African former slaves. It was closely connected to the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.{{cn|date=January 2021}} )
Petitioning peaked in 1792, with up to 100,000 signatures (Manchester alone contributing 10,639), regional anti-slavery groups started taking the lead, especially in the [[north of England]]. (Note: odnb )
Women had increasingly played a larger role in the anti-slavery movement
(Note: Source: last1=Sussman| first1=Charlotte| title=Consuming Anxieties. Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833| year=2000|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford}} ) but could not take a direct role in [[British Parliament|Parliament]]. They sometimes formed their own anti-slavery societies. Many women were horrified that, under slavery, women and children were taken away from their families. In 1824, [[Elizabeth Heyrick]] published a pamphlet titled ''Immediate not Gradual Abolition'', in which she urged the immediate emancipation of slaves in the British colonies.{{cn|date=December 2020}}
Despite the little influence they carried, many female abolitionists made a big impact on the abolition of the slave trade. An important campaigner was [[Anne Knight]]. She was born into a Quaker family in Essex and took active roles in the anti-slavery campaigns. Knight formed the Chelmsford Female Anti-Slavery Society. She also toured France, giving lectures on the immorality of slavery.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}
The [[Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves]] was founded in [[Birmingham]], England, on 8 April 1825.
(Note: Source: last=Simkin | first=John | title=Women and the Anti-Slavery Movement | website=Spartacus Educational | url=https://spartacus-educational.com/REslaveryW.htm | access-date=7 January 2021}} )
(Note: Source: ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-96359|title=Anti-Slavery Society|first=Catherine|last=Hall| year=2008| doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/96359|access-date=7 January 2021}} )
==1807 abolition==
In 1807, the British [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] voted to abolish the international slave trade under the [[Abolition of the Slave Trade Act]],  (Note:  mylearning  and enforce this through its maritime power, the [[Royal Navy]] ).
(Note:  Source: last1=Hochschild |first1=Adam|author-link=Adam Hochschild |title= [[Bury the Chains|Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves]]|publisher=Pan Books |place=London |year=2005}} )
The society wound up its work after the Act was passed. (Note: hoi )
The United States also prohibited the African slave trade in the same year, to take effect on 1 January 1808.
(Note:  Source: first=Eric |last=Foner|interviewer-first = Michel|interviewer-last =Martin|title=End of Slave Trade Meant New Normal for America | website=NPR.org | date=10 January 2008 | url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17988106 | access-date=26 July 2021}} )
In 1808 a separate Act was passed in the UK to give greater British protection to [[Freetown]] in West Africa (now capital of [[Sierra Leone]]), a colony established in 1788 for the resettlement of former slaves and Poor Blacks from London, as well as [[Black Loyalists]] who had initially been relocated to Nova Scotia following the [[American Revolutionary War]]. The Timni chief Nembana sold a strip of land to British official to establish this colony for freed slaves. When the Royal Navy later intercepted illegal slave trading ships, its crews frequently resettled the liberated Africans at Freetown.{{cn|date=December 2020}}
==New society==
{{main|Anti-Slavery Society (1823–1838)}}
From 1823, the [[Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions]] (aka Anti-Slavery Society) became the primary organised group working for legislation to abolish slavery. The Society and supporters, including captive and freed Africans, [[missionaries]] and evangelical movements in the colonies, worked to achieve the first stage of legal emancipation in the colonies. It also supported abolitionists in the United States. Many British supported lecture tours by American abolitionists in Britain who were raising funds for efforts in the United States. Such supporters sometimes provided refuge to Americans who had escaped from slavery and helped raise money to buy their freedom, as for [[Frederick Douglass]].{{cn|date=December 2020}}
==Quotes ==
The society was "absolutely without precedent...If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary."  -- France. Frenchman  [[Alexis de Tocqueville]]
==See also==
* [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom]]
* ''[[Bury the Chains|Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves]]''
* [[List of Abolitionist Forerunners (Thomas Clarkson)]]
==External links==
*  Source:  title=Sierra Leone Colony | website=The British Empire | url=https://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/sierraleone.htm }}
* Source: title=Parliament and the British Slave Trade | website=UK Parliament | url=https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/tradeindustry/slavetrade/ }}
* Source: title=First Petition to Parliament: The Abolition of Slavery Project |format=Transcript| website=The Abolition of Slavery Project | url=http://abolition.e2bn.org/source_34.html }}
* [https://www.scseagrant.org/breaking-the-chains-the-end-of-the-transatlantic-slave-trade Breaking the Chains: The End of the Transatlantic Slave Trade], [[Costal Heritage Magazine]]  Volume 22 – Number 3  winter 2008
[[Category:Abolitionism in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:History of the British Isles]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1787]]
[[Category:1787 establishments in Great Britain]]
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[[Category:History of Quakerism]]




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Travis Lee Bailey, Esq.
Трэвис Ли Бейли
Американский юрист: Аналитический центр Консультант в Москве, Россия
American Lawyer and aspiring think tank consultant in Moscow, Russia