Thread by @blackrepublican

“Midnight Sky & Silent Stars”

Read the beautiful letter Frederick Douglass wrote to Harriet Tubman.

"The difference between us is very marked. Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the other hand, have labored in a private way. I in the day – you in the night."

"The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Excepting John Brown – of sacred memory – I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have."

(1868) Letter from Frederick to Harriet

Dear Harriet:

blackpast.org/african-americ…

"Say, sir, in your madness, that you own the sun, stars, moon; but do not say that you own a man, endowed with a soul."

A Republican who fought #WhiteSupremacy; Sen. Sumner was beaten on the Senate floor for daring to belive that #BlackLivesMatter

"The anti-slavery party (Republican Party) contends that slavery is wrong, and the government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that slavery is right, and that this is a confederate republic of sovereign states."

"Keitt a conservative Democrat resigned his seat after the beating of Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor. He beat Charles Sumner, because he was a Radical Republican who advocated the "eradication of slavery, without compromise".

"Say, sir, in your madness, that you own the sun, stars, moon; but do not say that you own a man, endowed with a soul."

-- Charles Sumner #bhm

“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”

– Harriet Tubman

"Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina, accompanied by Representative Laurence Keitt of South Carolina, severely beat Senator Charles Sumner".

history.house.gov/HistoricalHigh…

“When that pharaoh chariot comes, I’m gonna leave you. I’m bound for the promise land, I’m gonna leave you. I’m sorry I’m gonna leave you, farewell oh farewell, but I’ll meet you in the morning farewell oh farewell”

Harriet's #GoodByeSong