{"id":8712,"date":"2005-08-31T07:43:33","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T14:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/08\/31\/primer-of-freedom.html"},"modified":"2005-08-31T07:43:33","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T14:43:33","slug":"primer_of_freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/31\/primer_of_freed.html","title":{"rendered":"Primer of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/slavery.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Slavery\" width=276 height=329 \/><\/div>\n<p>Fascinating reading primer, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/pantufla\/sets\/359425\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Gospel of Slavery<\/a><\/em>, consisting of 26 lettered illustrations and poems about the evils of slavery (and the perniciousness of those who support it, along with paeans to the Union), published in 1864.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/08\/30\/1864_freedom_primer_.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating reading primer, The Gospel of Slavery, consisting of 26 lettered illustrations and poems about the evils of slavery (and the perniciousness of those who support it, along with paeans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130706,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/a-horrifying-competition-of-evils.html","url_meta":{"origin":8712,"position":0},"title":"A horrifying competition of evils","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-May-16 10:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Very interesting and moving article about the Whitney Plantation slavery museum in Louisiana and the horrible story it tells about the black slaves who worked -- and suffered and were tortured and died -- on the site.Which then, in the comments, gets into a one-upsmanship argument about whether American slavery\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":46139,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/29\/obamacare-the-comic-book.html","url_meta":{"origin":8712,"position":1},"title":"Obamacare: The Comic Book","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Oct-14 3:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While it definitely has some opinions to express, this illustrated guide to the history, implementation, problems, and plusses of the ACA is very, very good. 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