Wendell phillips archaeologist biography of abraham

A wise person (my wife) once said each of us has an Indiana Jones inside trying to get out. Perhaps that is why the show at ICON Gallery in Fairfield—The Legendary Dodge Truck and the Arabian Expedition (June 1 –July 21, 2007)—is so appealing.

It chronicles the exploits of a hardy group of archaeologists and explorers who set off in 1950 from the British protectorate of Aden (now the Republic of Aden) in search of lost civilizations. Their aim was to excavate ancient cities along the famed spice routes that crossed the deserts of South Arabia, some of them stretching far back in time to the days of Abraham. In particular, they sought the Temple of the Moon built by the legendary Queen of Sheba at Marib.

The expedition, the first of four organized in that region by the American Foundation for the Study of Man, included world-famous archaeological scholar Professor William F. Albright and was headed up by a fearless young explorer named Wendell Phillips, who was fresh from his success traversing the African continent from Cairo to Capetown. Many believe Phillips to be a role model for Harrison Ford’s dashing archaeologist hero in the Indiana Jones film series, right down to the enormous six-shooter low-riding on his hip.

Shunning camels, the traditional form of transport in this harsh desert environment, the expedition chose to use instead 18 custom-designed Dodge Power Wagons that Phillips had somehow persuaded the Chairman of the Chrysler Corporation to donate. Developed during the Second World War to transport American troops as far apart as Africa and the Philippines, these monuments to the heyday of American auto manufacturing (more steel, please) became the staple truck for the American workingman after the war and were in continuous production (and almost unchanged in design) for 33 years. Goodyear created special tires for the vehicles and Colt and Remington donated plenty of firepower for the team members to protect themselves.

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Examining the life of an early advocate of the legal rights of Black Americans In this brisk, engaging exploration of 19th-century radical reformer and abolitionist Wendell Phillips, Peter Charles Hoffer makes the case that Phillips deserves credit as the nation's first public interest lawyer, someone who led the antebellum crusade against slavery and championed First Amendment rights and equality for all Americans, including Black people and women. As a young lawyer, bored and working at a languishing practice, Phillips nonetheless believed that the law would serve as the basis for meaningful social change, including the abolishment of slavery. While many believed the US Constitution was a virtually faultless, foundational document for governance, Phillips viewed it as deeply racist, proslavery, and, therefore, in contradiction to the Declaration of Independence. Unsurprisingly, many of Phillips's ideas were viewed as controversial and unpopular at the time, even with other abolitionists. He frequently disagreed with more conservative politicians, including Abraham Lincoln. But beyond merely criticizing the Constitution, Phillips subscribed to a "democratic positivist" belief, which contends that law is the central component of a strong democracy and that law can and should be changed by the will of the people. Thus, he believed it was critical to change public opinion on issues like slavery, which in turn would help change laws that legalized the institution. Throughout his life, he used his impressive skills as an orator to raise awareness to the horrors of enslavement, appealed to Americans' consciences, and directed them to act through voting and lawmaking. Democratic positivist approaches like his have continued to be used by lawyers to influence social reforms ranging from the civil rights movement of the 1960s to advocacy for unhoused people to abolishing America's carceral state, and Hoffer persuasively argues that Phillips's influence has b

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William C. Harris, Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency
(University of Kansas, 2007)
 
Abraham Lincoln was demonized in the South long before he took office as President in 1861. During the four-way campaign in 1860, Lincoln was demonized as a black Republican whose election would split the Union. Historian Arthur Cole wrote: “Lincoln was pictured in many quarters not only as a black Republican but ‘as an Abolitionist; a fanatic of the John Brown type; the slave to one idea, who, in order to carry that out to its legitimate results, would override laws, constitutions, and compromises of every kind’, as a Robespierre ready to overturn the whole fabric of society.” Historian Michael Burlingame wrote that Lincoln told a Tennessee visitor in the secession winter that “to execute the laws is all that I shall attempt to do. This, however, I will do, no matter how much force may be required.”
 
Lincoln tried to avoid adding fuel to the attacks on him. During the 1860 campaign, he refrained from making any policy pronouncements – for fear they would be misconstrued in both North and South. After the election, Lincoln told one journalist: “I know the justness of my intentions and the utter groundlessness of the pretended fears of the men who are filling the country with their clamor. If I go into the presidency, they will find me as I am on record – nothing less, nothing more. My declarations have been made to the world without reservation. They have been often repeated; and now, self-respect demands of me and of the party that has elected me that when threatened, I should be silent.” As far back as 1856, Mr. Lincoln had told a Republican convention in Illinois: “We say to the southern disunionists, we won’t go out of the Union, and you shanR

American abolitionist and advocate (1811–1884)

This article is about the abolitionist and attorney. For the archaeologist, see Wendell Phillips (archaeologist).

"Ann Phillips" redirects here. For the English golfer, see Ann Phillips (golfer).

Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney.

According to George Lewis Ruffin, a Black attorney, Phillips was seen by many Black people as "the one white American wholly color-blind and free from race prejudice". According to another Black attorney, Archibald Grimké, as an abolitionist leader he is ahead of William Lloyd Garrison and Charles Sumner. From 1850 to 1865 he was the "preeminent figure" in American abolitionism.

Early life and education

Phillips was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 29, 1811, to Sarah Walley and John Phillips, a wealthy lawyer, politician, and philanthropist, who was the first mayor of Boston. He was a descendant of Reverend George Phillips, who emigrated from England to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1630. All of his ancestors migrated to North America from England, and all of them arrived in Massachusetts between the years 1630 and 1650.

Phillips was schooled at Boston Latin School, and graduated from Harvard College in 1831. He went on to attend Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1833. In 1834, Phillips was admitted to the Massachusetts state bar, and in the same year, he opened a law practice in Boston.

Marriage to Ann Terry Greene

In 1836, Phillips was supporting the abolitionist cause when he met Ann Greene. It was her opinion that this cause required not just support but total commitment. Phillips and Greene were engaged that year and Greene declared Wendell to be her "best three quarters". They were married until Wendell's deat