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Hace 2 días · ‘Less pain, the less life-capacity’ exclaimed Henry Ward Beecher in 1872, his sentiments speaking to the conflicted debates surrounding bodily discomfort which surfaced over the course of the nineteenth century, as medical advancements (particularly in anaesthesiology) challenged the formerly accepted view that pain served a natural, evolutionary, and moral purpose.
Hace 4 días · Those abolitionists have all the familiar faces, whether that’s William Lloyd Garrison up in Boston, Henry Ward Beecher for us in Brooklyn. One of the features of the abolitionist movements in the 1830s and ’40s is that it represents the first time in U.S. history Black folks and white folks get together to really show solidarity and demand an immediate end to slavery in the United States.
10 de may. de 2024 · The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher, in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn: From Verbatim Reports by T. J. Ellinwood; Plymouth Pulpit, Seventh Series, September, 1871-March, 1872 : Henry Ward Beecher : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
24 de may. de 2024 · Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is cited among the causes of the American Civil War.
Hace 1 día · The audio tour also introduces important local historic figures in the abolition movement, including businesswoman Elizabeth Gloucester, pioneering sisters Dr. Susan Smith McKinney-Steward and educator Sarah J. Tompkins Garnet, and Plymouth Church preacher Henry Ward Beecher, highlighting all their stories to illuminate the multiple ways people ...
Hace 3 días · Thackeray lectured, Dickens read A Christmas Carol, and the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lectured on 'The Reign of the Common People'. The Theatre Royal was altered and reconstructed in 1875 and 1880.
Hace 2 días · — Henry Ward Beecher. Quote of the Week #2: “The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.” — H. L. Mencken. Whimsical Wanderings is a reader-supported publication.
