Geez I forgot to post it here on 4th of July!!!!
📯[Friends of Freedom and Humanity]🕊️
HAPPY belated INDEPENDENCE DAY 250!!! I created this artwork for my independence day project this year, and I chose the theme of Kansas Nebraska act, anti-nebraska movement and the free soil party. This piece probably means a lot to me personally for what I’ve learned about the US history of this period for the past four and a half year, especially the past two years when i started to focus on the story of the anti-slavery movement. Most of the time during this week I was in my sick bed (and still sick i am) but I have to get this done… for now I’ll let my art and history speak for themselves.
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“We appeal to the people. We warn you that the dearest interests of freedom and the Union are in imminent peril. Demagogues may tell you that the Union can be maintained only by submitting to the demands of slavery. We tell you that the Union can only be maintained by the full recognition of the just claims of freedom and man. The Union was formed to establish justice and secure the blessings of liberty. When it fails to accomplish these ends it will be worthless, and when it becomes worthless it cannot long endure.
“We entreat you to be mindful of that fundamental maxim of Democracy — EQUAL RIGHTS AND EXACT JUSTICE FOR ALL MEN. Do not submit to become agents in extending legalized oppression and systematized injustice over a vast territory yet exempt from these terrible evils…
“For ourselves, we shall resist it by speech and vote, and with all the abilities which God has given us. Even if overcome in the impending struggle, we shall not submit. We shall go home to our constituents, erect anew the standard of freedom, and call on the people to come to the rescue of the country from the domination of slavery. We will not despair; for the cause of human freedom is the cause of God.”
—The Appeal of the Independent Democrats to the People of the United States, 1854.
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