I think he brought the kid back to his hobbit house and made him tea (probably without sugar) and when the parents were exhausted of looking for him, he brought them to him and explained to them the moral of the action.
It was like 1732 and he was a pacifist quaker. I linked a really fun and fairly detailed video about the dude in the thread. This guy was based as fuck. He even went vegan eventually. In the late 1730s! I'd recommend the whole channel, he's great and knows both history and film making so the slop is top of the line
Definitely cooler than me, and I have 300 years of additional history to learn from!
I have that video saved on a tab for my work day tomorrow lol
Atun Shei is REALLY GOOD. I'd check out his In Defense of the Puritans vid, his Checkmate Lincolnite series debunking lost cause bs so thoroughly he made a pretty much feature length movie using most of his characters which leads to my favorite of the VVitchfinder General of the Coloney of Maffachussetes Bayye
Could've done a Patty Hearst maneuver too, let the kid choose whether he wanted to join the abolitionist movement later on.
It was the early 1700s, he WAS the abolitionist movement in his area.
well, I'm pretty sure the slaves were the abolitionist movement, since day 1 and were constantly resisting, but yeah he was definitely an early anglo abolitionist
Yes, slaves were against slavery. Glad you let everyone know there.
You were the one who didn't mention it, saying this white guy "was the abolition movement" in his area where there existed mass-slavery to be abolitionist against; which considering it does regularly get ignored in US discourse when speaking on slavery that the largest and longest-struggling contingent of active resistance and rebellions to abolish slavery were the slaves in their masses, instead favoring giving undue credit for the struggle against slavery and progress of abolition to individual white abolitionists among the colonizers in their often individualist acts, righteous though they may have been --- it is is a significant omission, which serves to reinforce these hegemonic narrative frameworks of white supremacy and great man history. More people know hymns to John Brown than to Nat Turner and it deserves to be examined. More people know of individual "white" abolitionists and their acts than the Black slave rebels like Charles Deslondes or Gabriel Prosser and the mass struggles they led; and often reduce the masses of slaves to background noise in history compared to the acts of 'a few good white men.' It is always worth, when the masses of slaves are themselves reduced to background noise in the struggle against slavery, to re-center them.
Not sure. I'd have to revisit the Rediker book on him.
Atun-Shei Films, THE BEST history YouTube channel just did a whole video about the guy! He also went vegan later in life
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gIkQrr8pgSI
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Quakers are pretty great. Colonisation of North America obviously was a bad thing, but many Quakers were actively opposing from day one the slave trade (before it was abolished back in England) and resisting the genocide of First Nations. And many of them were fleeing active persecution for basically having done similar things back in England. Then Puritan's and other colonists would lynch the Quakers for sticking to their beliefs.
