What is an abolitionist?

Now, we know what an abolitionist was in 1847.

It was someone who wanted to abolish or destroy all the systems of slavery and to set free those who were enslaved.

What does that mean today?

In the American context, what does it mean to be an abolitionist in 2019?

What systems are we aiming to destroy?

How do we destroy them?

And who are we aiming to set free?

Today I want to unpack this and more,

because I'd like to invite you to become an abolitionist with me.

But first we have to agree on what it means.

This is Sean King, and you are listening to

The Breakdown. the breakdown. All the way back in

all the way back in 1847 and this is still the height of slavery in the United States where millions of people are enslaved not just in the United States but in countries all around the

world they are starting to abolish the systems

but the vestiges around the world still remain.

But in the United States, the systems are still in 1847 in full force. In 1847, two men, Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney,

two freedom fighters, two young abolitionists at that time decided to start a newspaper in New York in

Rochester called the North Star and we restarted that company just this year and

the breakdown is a podcast of the North Star.

They started the North Star for a few reasons and if you don't know this story

the North Star is actually a star in the sky that many people who escaped plantations would use to track their course northward so that they could flee the south and get north.

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