The Women Who Gave Us Christmas
Exposing America's Greatest Crime
Katz, William Loren
http://www.counterpunch.org/katz12242010.html
Date Written: 2010-12-24
Publisher: CounterPunch
Year Published: 2010
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX12366
In 1834, African American and white men and women members of William Lloyd Garrison’s newly formed Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society saw Christmas as an opportunity to expose a hypocritical republic that proclaimed liberty yet held millions of African men, women and children captive as slaves. Women assumed the lead, boldly defying a society that denied them a public voice or political opinions. To finance the abolition cause, these women organized Christmas bazaars that sold donated gifts, and trumpeted anti-slavery messages.
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