The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum is following its February\u00a0Black History Matters\u00a0series with 15 March days of\u00a0\u201cJim Stewart\u2019s Historical Tonic for Fragile White Folks.\u201d\u00a0Beginning March 1, Dr.\u00a0\u00a0James Brewer Stewart,\u00a0professor emeritus\u00a0at Macalester College in Minnesota, will address white supremacy after the Civil War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stewart will present 16 mini-lectures from \u201cHistorical Tonic for Fragile White Folks\u201d that are six to 15 minutes long in a casual talk style. Stewart sees his videos as a way to challenge the \u201chistorical amnesia\u201d that exists about white supremacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEach of the videos describes wrenching developments that usually get glossed over in the history textbooks, but that\u2019s precisely why it\u2019s so essential to know about them,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He intends to help people see this neglected history as it truly was and to own that history. Stewart wants \u2018Historical Tonic\u2019 to be shared free. He is inviting the public to join him and videographer, Dan Rippl, in a high-impact YouTube video campaign to mobilize resistance against white supremacist perversions of American history and assaults against people of color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo maximize the \u2018Tonic\u2019 impact, it must be promoted as widely as possible,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He encourages viewers to recommend the videos to family, friends and colleagues, and he wants folks to know that he is available to collaborate on programming with church groups, civic organizations and classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stewart will introduce his program Monday, March 1, 2021, and in the first week present \u201cWhere Diving Deep Takes Us,\u201d \u201cBlack Reconstruction: The Unfinished Revolution,\u201d \u201cWhite Reconstruction the Unfinished Revolution,\u201d \u201cViolence is as American as Apple Pie 1660-1990,\u201d \u201cLynching 1880 to 1950\u201d and \u201cSimple Amusements.\u201d Sunday, March 7. Videos will be available each day at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stewart has written extensively on the history of the American abolitionist movement, including several books on individual abolitionists. He is the founder of Historians Against Slavery and founder and director of the Celebrate American Heroes Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NAHOF, which honors antislavery abolitionists, their work to end slavery and the legacy of that struggle, is chartered by the Board of Regents\/state Education Department and strives to complete the second and ongoing abolition: the moral conviction to end racism. NAHOF is located in historic Peterboro in the 200-year-old building in which state abolitionists held the inaugural meeting of the New York State Antislavery Society in 1835. The Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark is an Underground Railroad site just down the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NAHOF hopes that the public joins Stewart for his chats. For more information and to access daily releases of \u201cJim Stewart\u2019s Historical Tonic for Fragile White Folks,\u201d visit nationalabolitionhalloffameandmuseum.org\/events.html<\/a>, Twitter @PeterboroNY<\/a>, Facebook @NationalAbolitionHallOfFameAndMuseum<\/a> or Instagram @NationalAbolitionHallOfFame<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum is following its February\u00a0Black History Matters\u00a0series with 15 March days of\u00a0\u201cJim Stewart\u2019s Historical Tonic for Fragile White Folks.\u201d\u00a0Beginning March 1, Dr.\u00a0\u00a0James Brewer Stewart,\u00a0professor emeritus\u00a0at Macalester College in Minnesota, will address white supremacy after the Civil War. Stewart will present 16 mini-lectures from \u201cHistorical Tonic for Fragile White Folks\u201d that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22367,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}