PHRIDAY PHAVORITE PHOTO PHUN & BLACK HISTORY

Good Mornin' Yall,

I do hope that everyone had a great Thursday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 53

degrees with a windchill of 48 degrees. The winds are out of the Southwest at 17mph. Yesterday was a pretty nice day and it made it up to around 53 degrees. Today is suppose to be around 59 degrees and partly cloudy. The weekend appears to be pretty nice with the high on Sunday getting up to around 64 degrees. Thunderstorms are back in the forecast for Monday tho. With it being that warm, I just hope we don't have anything on the Severe side. March can be just as bad for Tornadoes around here as well.

Today is Phriday Phavorite Photo Phun. It is hosted by Anni@ http://hootin--anni.blogspot.com/. If you would like to join in the Phriday Phavorite Photo Phun, please go and visit Anni and let her know you are going to participate and then post a Phun Photo on your blog. Today I am going to share with you a picture of our girls.

This was taken about 2 or 3 years ago at our other house. Either I was asleep or was working nights at the Police Department. My DH took this picture with an old Digital Camera we had. They are in our Front Room and have their Doo-Rags on. Their Daddy had bought them all one at the Terrapin Derby in Lepanto and they always wore theirs when their Daddy was at home. They would even wear them to bed and sleep in them. They wanted and still do want to be so much like their Daddy. They are their Daddy's girls and they love their Daddy very much. Of course, their Daddy loves them with all his heart. I'm hoping to get my new camera sometime next week. When I do, I will be able to take more pictures and updated pictures. LOL. All the ones I have saved on my computer now are antique. LOL.

Since today is the last day of February, I am going to share one more story on Black History. The information I am going to share today is on The Abolition Movement. Here is the info.

Abolition

The growth of public opposition to slavery represents one of the most momentous moral transformations in history. As late as 1750, no church condemned slave ownership or slave trading. Britain, Denmark, France, Holland, Portugal, and Spain all openly participated in the slave trade. Beginning with the Quakers in the late 1750s, however, organized opposition to slavery quickly grew. In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance barred slavery from the territories north of the Ohio River; by 1804, the nine states north of Delaware had freed slaves or adopted gradual emancipation plans.In Haiti in 1791, nearly a half million slaves emancipated themselves by insurrection and revolutionary struggle. In 1807, Britain and the United States outlawed the African slave trade.
Within the span of a century and a half, slavery, long regarded as an inevitable part of the social order, came to be seen as a violation of Christian morality and the natural, inalienable rights of man. The main impetus behind antislavery came from religion. New religious and humanitarian values contributed to a view of slavery as "the sum of all villainies," a satanic institution which gave rise to every imaginable sin: violence, despotism, racial prejudice, and sexual corruption. Initially, many opponents of slavery supported "colonization" -- the deportation of black Americans to Africa, the Caribbean, or Central America. But by the late 1820s, it was obvious that colonization was a wholly impractical solution to the problem of slavery. Each year the nation's slave population rose by 50,000, but in 1830, the American Colonization Society persuaded just 259 free blacks to migrate to Liberia, bringing the total number of blacks colonized in Africa to just 1,400.
In 1829, a 25-year-old white Bostonian named William Lloyd Garrison denounced colonization as a cruel hoax designed to promote the racial purity of the North while doing nothing to end slavery in the South. He demanded "immediate emancipation" of slaves without compensation to their owners. Within six years, 200 antislavery societies had sprouted up in the North, and had mounted a massive propaganda campaign against slavery. The growth of militant abolitionism provoked a harsh public reaction. Mobs led by "gentlemen of property and standing" attacked the homes and businesses of abolitionist merchants, destroyed abolitionist printing presses, attacked black neighborhoods, and murdered the Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy, the editor of an abolitionist newspaper.
In the face of vicious attacks, the antislavery movement divided over questions of strategy and tactics. Radicals, led by Garrison, began to attack all forms of inequality and violence in American society, withdrew from churches that condoned slavery, demanded equal rights for women, and called for voluntary dissolution of the Union. Other abolitionists turned to politics as the most promising way to end slavery, helping to form the Liberty Party in 1840, the Free Soil party in 1848, and the Republican party in 1854. By the late 1850s, a growing number of northerners were convinced that slavery posed an intolerable threat to free labor and civil liberties. Many believed that an aggressive Slave Power had seized control of the federal government, incited revolution in Texas and war with Mexico, and was engaged in a systematic plan to extend slavery into the western territories.
At the same time, an increasing number of southerners believed that antislavery radicals dominated northern politics and sought to bar slavery from the western territories and to undermine the institution in the states where it already existed. John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in October 1859 produced shock waves throughout the South, producing fears of slave revolt and race war. When Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, many white southerners were convinced that this represented the triumph of abolitionism in the North and thought they had no choice but to secede from the Union. The new president, however, was passionately committed to the preservation of the union, and peaceful secession proved to be impossible.

I hope you have enjoyed my series on Black History. I wish I had started it sooner and shared some more stories. All of the information I have been giving you has been coming from our local T.V. Station. Their website is http://www.kait8.com/global/Category.asp?c=92538. If you want to know about about the Black History, please feel free to visit the above website and it has all kinds of things you can click on and read.

I would like to "THANK" Tammy@ http://thepinkmagnolia.blogspot.com/ for letting me use the picture at the top of my post. "THANK YOU" so much Tammy for this beautiful picture. I do love it. It is very appropriate since today is Friday. If you have never visited Tammy, when you have time, please drop by and visit with her. She is a wonderful friend and I do enjoy visiting her. She has alot of nice pictures and other interesting facts on her blog. She also sent me a website yesterday with alot of Coffee graphics. You may notice that I am using some as my dividers. "THANK YOU" again Tammy for sending me the website. I do appreciate it so very much. I do love my COFFEE.

The girls had a pretty good day out of School yesterday. Our youngest daughter slept till 11:15a.m. I had gone back to bed around 8:30a.m. and went back to sleep as well. I woke up at that time and got her up so she would sleep last night. I found out that the boys High School Basketball Team had played on Wednesday night and the High School Girls Basketball Team played yesterday in a Tournament. Both teams lost, so that put them out of the State Play-Offs. Me and the girls went up to Backwoods BBQ for supper last night. While we were there, my MIL came in and sat down with us and had her supper there as well. We all had a nice little visit with her. I would like for yall to keep her in your prayers. She is going today for a Mammogram. She had gone to her regular doctor last week and she had noticed a lump in one of her breast. The doctor felt of it too and he ordered her the Mammogram for today. I don't know how long it will take to get the results back, but her regular doctor did tell her she should be looking for a Surgeon. I ask that you pray that she will receive good lab tests. I can tell she is worried, but she isn't acting like it. I can tell tho. You all know that the prayers I ask of you is so much appreciated.

This will be my last post again until about Sunday or Monday. I will try to visit everyone sometime this weekend. Since my DH will be home, I want to spend most of my time with him. I don't know what we will do just yet this weekend. He said something about taking the girls up to the local Tennis Court and playing Tennis with them. No, we are not professionals here. LOL. We got the girls some Tennis Rackets and Tennis Balls Christmas before last. They have only used them a few times. Me and my DH needs to buy us a Tennis Racket so we can play when he is home. It would be a good Family outing. Take care my friends and have a great day/weekend. May God Bless You and Yours. I will be around shortly for our morning coffee. I have plenty for you here as well.

LOVE & HUGS,