A Publication of Students in the Journalism Department at Morrisville State College | SPECIAL EDITION | February 16, 2007
A Publication of Students in the Journalism
Department at Morrisville State College | SPECIAL EDITION | February 16, 2007
2006-07 CHIMES Issues
CHIMES Online Editor Vicki Gooch, '08
Online Layout Jennifer Callahan, '08 |
The National Abolition Hall of Fame On Jan. 31 2007, The National Abolition Hall of Fame announced its second set of Inductees since the Hall’s opening. The announcements were made on the anniversary of the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery.
The 2007 Inductees
John Brown dedicated his life to freeing slaves and securing equality for all. Lydia Maria Francis Child’s major achievement came in 1833, when she published her book “An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans,” says Corinne Martin Wendell Phillips was known as many things. He was a successful lawyer who graduated from Harvard. He was a wealthy socialite and was a political candidate at one point. Most importantly, he was perhaps the most famed orator to participate in the abolition movement of the 1800s. Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in 1797 in Ulster County, New York. Being one of thirteen children born to two slaves (Elizabeth & James) on the Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh estate, Isabella learned and only spoke Dutch until later being sold.
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