Jeff Dickey
Auteur van Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
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Jeff Dickey is a full stark web developer with extensive startup experience in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Jeff has started projects, maintained large enterprise systems, and led development teams. He brings a developers perspective and enjoys pragmatism and action while avoiding red tape. toon meer Outside of work, Jeff is a teacher at General Assembly Los Angeles and Lead Organizer for the LA Code for America Brigade. toon minder
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(eng) Dickey apparently prefers J. D. Dickey, but the Library of Congress has him established as Jeff Dickey.
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- J.D. Dickey has been writing books for 20 years, first as an author for Penguin, now as a writer of narrative nonfiction about American history, society and culture. He has also written articles on a broad range of historical, political and travel-related topics for newspapers and magazines, and appeared in media from C-SPAN's Book TV (in 2015 and 2018) to Public Radio International's program The Takeaway. His work has appeared in the Daily Telegraph and Rhapsody magazine, and online at such sites as The Fix.com and BudgetTravel.com. In support of his work, he has lectured for the New York Historical Society, the Pritzker Military Museum and Library, the Atlanta History Center, and the U.S. Army War College, among other organizations. In addition to his nonfiction work, he has penned short stories for print and the web, and been featured on several literary venues. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. [from website and The Empire of Mud]
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- Dickey apparently prefers J. D. Dickey, but the Library of Congress has him established as Jeff Dickey.
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Dickey points out the motives and reasons for such strident opposition. Part stemmed from the overt racism that was so prevalent in 19th century. There was a widespread favor of "colonization" as the approach to the presence of blacks in America. Enticing (or forcing) blacks to emigrate to Africa was seen as the solution. Others held that the movement to abolish slavery would significantly disrupt the bonds that held the union together.
The main characters in the abolitionist movement are featured including William Lloyd Garrison, the publisher of "The Emancipator"; Arthur and Lewis Tappen, wealthy silk merchants and philanthroposts; Theodore Weld and the Grimke sisters, expatriates from a South Carolina plantation who became fervently anti-slavery. He also gives much-needed attention to blacks who vigorously advocated for not only emancipation, but also civil and social rights for African-Americans, such notables at James Fortran, his daughter the poet and activist Sarah, Robert Purvis, and David Ruggles, the chief figure in the Committee of Vigilance that thwarted attempts to reenslave fugitives and kidnap free blacks into slavery.
Abolitionist societies and organizations suffered schisms that weakened the movement. Garrison became more radical, even promoting the dissolution of the union that could not shed itself of slavery. Garrison held firm to non-resistence and non-involvement in politics. As the 1830's progressed we see the emergence of violence as a possible tactic to achieve emancipation and engagement in politics as a method to achieve results. The "moral suasion" approach of the Garrisonians was being seen as unlikely to ever produce emancipation.
The role of women receives much-deserved attention. Petition campaigns were carried out by women going door to door to obtain signatures on anti-slavery petitions that flooded Congress (who placed "gag" rules on the receipt of and action on petitions.) Even more significant is the appearance of women publically as speakers conveying the anti-slavery message. This was at a time when patriarchical thinking held that only proper role for women was in the domestic sphere. I was particularly impressed by Dickey's description of Angelina and Sarah Grimke who suffered strong criticism for their public visibility in the movement. I have done some research into the Grimke's and conclude that they were precursors of the women's rights movements whose beginning is usually linked to the Seneca Falls convention of 1850. Theodore Weld, who I have also studied, was a force of nature in the abolition movement, a captivating orator and effective organizer. Weld can be linked to the success of the nascent Oberlin College. He recruited and trained the "Seventy", a cadre of speakers who spread the cry for emancipation across the northeast and midwest. Weld and the Grimke's collaborated on the expose "American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses" that described the revealed the treatment of slaves. Over 100,000 copies were sold and it is said to have inspired Harriett Beecher Stowe to author "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Anyone who wishes to learn more about the dynamics affecting abolition in the 1830's will find much of information in this book.… (meer)