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The Free Our Women Campaign

'"Our" women only in that they could be our

sisters and daughters as well as anyone else's.

"Our" women in the sense that we have a

responsibility to stand up for them against

this evil. "Our" women in a loving, caring

sense, and belonging to none as property.'

Three centuries ago a movement began in Europe

which was to alter the entire flow of history. Men of the

slave-holding class began to ethically question the very

institution of slavery, an institution older than recorded

history. Against all privilege, against their economic

interests, at great risk and personal hardship, these men

and women began a fight against that ancient evil.

Decades passed, blood flowed between brothers over

the question of right and wrong off the coast of Africa,

in the tidewater of Virginia. In place after place the

institution fell until a bit over a century ago, the ancient

evil had fallen everywhere and none were to be found

who even advocated it.

We now think of slavery as something of the past, or

as an evil found only in isolated parts of the Third

World. As we read our history, we pride ourselves in

knowing that what the abolitionists fought for was

indisputably right and their personal sacrifices a noble

necessity. We tell ourselves that we would have acted

just the same conviction for the cause of freedom.

But, slavery is not dead.

It lives today in our cities and towns. It lives within a

few miles of most who will read this page. It lives

quietly, too quietly, while newspaper headlines should

be screaming with outrage. It lives largely undisturbed,

while you and I ought to be demanding action, and

while law enforcement should put aside lesser causes to

combat this evil.

What was evil in 1861 is evil today.

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