On this weekend in 1652, a law was passed in Rhode Island banning slavery in the colonies. Turns out that particular law didn’t cause much of a stir.
Unfortunately, some of today’s legislation intended to protect marginalized groups isn’t faring much better. See Stephen Elliott’s, “Eden Alexander, Crowd Funding, and Discrimination Against Sex Workers”, for a timely exposure of the prejudice one sex worker is facing right now.
Then, in the Sunday Essay, Zoe Zolbrod gives us a searching account of motherhood, temperament, and coping with your children’s coping methods:
The very difficult thing for me about my emotional and talkative children is that they foreclose my own tearless coping strategies, which I’ve been honing since before I knew how to ride a bike. They’re always knocking on my mind’s door, or just barging in.
That’s something worth hollering about.
One response
In 1652 Rhode Island passed a law limiting involuntary servitude to ten years. It did not affect the 1641 Massachusetts law legalizing slavery, the Dutch slave laws in Massachusetts, New York or New Jersey, or any other slave codes in any other colonies. Try to be more precise in your writing.
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