Fyi, this is the 78th annual service, an incredible legacy from TBI, First Unitarian Church of Oklahoma City and Mayflower Congregational Church
This morning I'm reminded of this quote from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in 1866:
"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul".
Today in Labor History October 1, 1851: 10,000 New Yorkers busted up a police station in Syracuse to free William "Jerry" Henry, a craftsman who was fleeing slavery in the south. He had been arrested by a US Marshall during the anti-slavery Liberty Party's state convention. Citizens of the city stormed the sheriff's office, freed Henry and helped him escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. There were a lot of abolitionists living in New York, especially in Syracuse, including Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and a large number of abolitionist Quakers and Unitarians. Consequently, Syracuse became known as the great central depot on the Underground Railroad. Jerry Rescue Day was celebrated every October 1 in Syracuse, until the start of the Civil War. The annual event included speeches, poetry, music, and organizing against slavery. They also collected funds to keep the Underground Railroad running in central New York.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #abolition #UndergroundRailroad #frederickdouglass #harriettubman #police #quaker #unitarian #newyork #BlackMastadon
Two people now have asked me if I say “beloveds” because of some hot guy on #tiktok
No, I say “beloveds” because I’m #unitarian you buttholes