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Hosted by Max Parthas and Yusuf Hassan, Abolition today is a weekly online radio program with specific focus on modern slavery as it is practiced through the 13th amendment of the US constitution and by private for-profit prisons worldwide. Airs live Sundays 7PM EST. 4PM PST and 5 Central. abolitiontoday.org Abolition Today is currently on hiatus for 2024. In his capacity as national campaign coordinator for the Abolish Slavery National network, our host, Max Parthas is currently assisting 18 states and DC with their campaigns to abolish slavery in their constitutions. Please follow him on social media for updates @MaxParthas. We will return as soon as time allows. Meanwhile enjoy our incredibly rich and educational archives.

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Thus far I had outwitted him, and I triumphed over it. Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants. Harriet Ann... more
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Senate committee testimonies in multiple states on bills to end slavery have happened over the past few weeks. Including personal testimony by the hosts of Abolition Today in support of NJ ACR145. We'll discuss all that and more. We'll... more
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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have... more
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It's our 1st anniversary! Just past Harriet Tubman Day 2021 where she was inducted into the Military Hall of Fame, March 10th, on this episode we are joined for a discussion on modern legal slavery with Ernestine (Tina) Martin... more
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Thus far I had outwitted him, and I triumphed over it. Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants. Harriet Ann... more
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We'll discuss the human cost of modern lynchings under a system of constitutional slavery. The raid & warrant industrial complex. The judge, jury, executioner mentality of police. The death penalty, LWOP, and the systemic... more
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?No right was deemed by the fathers of the Government more sacred than the right of speech. It was in their eyes, as in the eyes of all thoughtful men, the great moral renovator of society and government. Daniel Webster called it a homebred... more
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On this last day of Black History Month, our guest is Mark Hughes. The activist behind Vermont's campaign to end constitutional slavery in their state. (PROPOSAL 2) Mark is the Executive Director of Vermont Racial Justice... more
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Kenneth B Morris Jr is the Direct Descendant of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. He's also the co founder of The Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives (FDFI). The FDFI exists to honor and preserve the legacy of... more
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