Friday, July 19, 2013

Anti-slavery alphabet that was used to teach children their letters and abolitionism

While the fight against slavery in the United States waged on, more than a decade before culminating with the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionist sisters Hannah and Mary Townsend decided to take their efforts in a new direction. Instead of only aiming their anti-slavery rhetoric at the offending adults, they opted to reach out to the next generation through basic education.

from twentytwowords.com (and the rest of the alphabet)


Saturday, July 13, 2013

When a man is getting better and worse - C.S Lewis

"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that's left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less."
- C.S Lewis 

PBS making fun of other TV shows