Tag Archives: emancipation

  Life in the hedonist West, where pleasure is the chief good in life, is becoming remarkably bleak. We have become totalitarian in a society characterized by an extreme permissiveness on almost every level. What happened to virtues such as honesty, fidelity, trustworthiness, selflessness, humility? And how is the lack of these virtues affecting us? The topic of a hedonist, …

  Living in Kentucky where slavery was legal, Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stove, (1811-1896) author of Uncle Tom’s cabin: Life among the Lowly, was exposed to the nature of slavery and its negative ramifications on black Americans and the rest of society. Her faith in Jesus Christ, her increasing understanding of the evils of slavery from the testimony of escaped slaves and …