#sarah enys

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"I want to live! Take me to sea with you!"

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Sarah Thompson left a powerful account of how one of those Unionist networks operated in the area of Greenville, east Tennessee, and of the loyal white women, enslaved men and women, and white men who composed it. Greenville was in the heartland of Southern Unionism: the region had opposed the secession of the state by a ratio of two to one in the referendum of June 1861. Thompson's region of "upr est Tenesse was," by her estimation, "a good dele more than one half union." But after a highly dramatic raid in November 1861 by Unionist saboteurs who succeeded in burning five railroad bridges, the entire area was put under martial law. The pursuit of known Unionists started then and carried on without stop until the Union army occupied the area beginning in 1863. In fact, even as towns like nearby Knoxville were liberated (as the local Unionists saw it) in the fall of 1863, Greenville remained under Confederate control, contested militarily, for another year. Notwithstanding the original Unionist orientation of the area in the secession crisis, Thompson and her husband, Sylvanius, operated in a highly dangerous local context of Confederate military occupation and surveillance, in a region descending rapidly into guerilla war.

It took some serious planning and organization to operate a Unionist network in that context. Thompson's account of theirs starts in September 1864 and circles back to the spring of 1862 when her husband went over the mountains to Kentucky and enlisted in the Union army. When he came back to raise more recruits for his company, he had to "ceep his self hid as a mater of corse" and he turned to her "to helpe him ... as he had more confindens in me then eny one els." She was his "ade" (as she put it) or front man, moving about the countryside, approaching those she knew to be true to the Union cause, inquiring about their willingness to enlist and effectively serving as the local recruiting agent for the men her husband would guide over the mountains. She did not act alone but in league with other covert agents of the cause in east Tennessee: white Unionist men and women in the rural community around Greenville, and, as she was at pains to point out, "the colord pepell," slaves of Union men and rebels both. "We new who to trust," she explained later, wondering still at how "strange [it is that] these pore soles would worke all day in thare mastes servas and then goo all night for what thay caled thare ease of freedom." When the group of recruits was ready to go off, she would cook "a good lot of fade and put it in saks and then when the time wold come I wold meet them" at a place of her designating and "see that ore plans had not bin fond out by the enamy." Only then would she hand them off to her husband.

Thompson also acted as intermediary and courier for the network, as many Union women in the border states did. One time her husband instructed her to go "see a colord man which was call alf and get him som men to take over the lings." After the men left she received whatever mail they sent back, once from a man who came in disguise to her home, then delivered it to other "union women," which is exactly how she identified them. Sarah Thompson was Sylvanius's partner. He was killed by Confederate soldiers in an ambush in early 1864. But from the spring of 1862 until his death, his ability to work as a federal recruiter depended crucially on a network of collaborators at home in Confederate territory marshaled by his wife.

Sarah Thompson was a "union woming" in her own right. She had a clear political identity and was known by it to rebel soldiers in the area. Like many others, she became a target of brutal harassment by rebel soldiers in Confederate east Tennessee who valued the military intelligence they knew the women had. As early as 1862, she says, rebel soldiers were "surchen ever house to whip and kill union men and forse them to goo in ther army" and in the process initiated a campaign of violence-she says it included murder-against Union women. Hers is a biblical account of the Unionists' passage through the wilderness. And as she tells it, modestly, as becomes a true Christian woman, women no less than men were engaged as the enemy. They were threatened, plundered, burned out, knocked about, and abused, she said, "in miny ways that wold not be proper for me to state here." "It was anuff for the rebels to cary off all youe had let it bee little or much it was yore all but thay much burn yor barns and a hass and ravis yor wifes and darts and hange by hes neck ar young boys to try to scare oute of them what thay did not knowe." Some of the sons were, in fact, hanged. She was threatened with the rope by soldiers in John Hunt Morgan's unit before she and her children were taken out by Union soldiers to the safe, federally occupied confines of Knoxville in the fall of 1864."

In the end, Sarah Thompson would be known best for her role in the capture of Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan in September 1864, using precisely the network of local Unionists, male and female, black and white, she had long deployed against the rebels in Greenville." But Thompson's account is more valuable for the quotidian than the spectacular. For what it offers is a rare ground-level account of how Unionist women in Greenville-key operatives in Unionist networks, possessed of valuable military intelligence, and out of the protection of their men-were engaged, as their counterparts were elsewhere in the front lines of the war against the domestic enemy. The recognition of women's salience in the treasonous politics of Unionist communities was already well advanced in some particularly divided places by 1862. By that point, in those places, Confederate authorities' reluctance to use violence against women citizens subsided fast.

sarah mccarry, confederate reckoning: power and politics in the civil war south

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Elle s'est mariée à l'âge de 14 ans, et à l'age de 20 ans, elle devient mère. La première femme millionnaire qui a fait fortune avec ses 10 doigts.

Elle est entrée dans le Guinness Book of Records en tant que première femme à devenir millionnaire indépendamment, sans argent hérité. Sara Breedlove est née en 1867 dans le sud des États-Unis, dans l'État de Louisiane. Ses parents, ses frères aînés et sa sœur étaient esclaves dans les champs de coton. Mais Sara est née libre. À 7 ans, elle a perdu ses parents. Après la mort de ses parents, elle a emménagé chez sa sœur et son mari. Enfant, Sara travaillait comme femme de ménage et n'avait pas le temps de scolariser. Elle a plus tard indiqué qu'elle n'avait eu que 3 mois d'éducation formelle lorsqu'elle a fréquenté. Elle n'avait que 14 ans quand elle a épousé Moses McWilliams. Elle ne l'a pas fait parce qu'elle l'aimait la vérité était que le mari de sa sœur était un homme très violent, et le mariage était le seul moyen pour Sara de s'échapper de cette famille. 4 ans plus tard Sarah et Moïse avaient une fille ensemble. Son mari décédé elle est donc devenue veuve à l'âge de vingt ans. En 1888, Sara déménage à St. Louis. Ses frères y travaillaient comme coiffeurs. Elle a commencé à travailler dans une laverie et comme cuisinière pour payer les études de sa fille dans une école publique. Sara gagnait environ 1,50 $ par jour. Comme tous les travailleurs de la blanchisserie, Sara est tombée malade à cause de produits chimiques, maladie de la peau, manque d'eau et chauffage dans la maison ont fait que Sara à perdu ses cheveux. Grâce à ses frères, elle a appris les bases des soins capillaires. Eni Malon des produits capillaires, et la rencontrera plus tard en personne, elle commence à vendre ses produits dans la rue. Travaillant toujours pour Malon à 37 ans, elle déménage à Denver avec sa fille et commence à penser à sa propre gamme de cosmétiques pour les femmes afro-américaines. Après de nombreuses expériences, elle réussit et elle commence à construire sa propre entreprise. En 1906, Sara épousa Charles J. Walker est devenu plus tard célèbre sous son nom de famille.

Charles devient son partenaire commercial, il a fait de la publicité et a aidé sa femme avec la promotion. Sara a fait du porte à porte en essayant de vendre ses produits, mais aussi pour apprendre aux femmes comment prendre soin de leurs cheveux et coiffer. La même année, elle a décidé d'agrandir son entreprise, alors elle et son mari ont voyagé en Amérique. Sa fille a obtenu son diplôme d'école, alors elle a aidé sa mère. Deux ans plus tard, Sara déménage à Pittsburgh, la famille ouvre un salon de beauté, mais aussi une école qui forme les gens sur les soins capillaires afin qu'ils puissent appliquer les produits. En 1910, Sara déménage à Indianapolis, où elle ouvre le siège de la compagnie Madame C. J. Walker. Elle construisit une usine, un laboratoire, un salon de coiffure et une école de beauté où elle forme ses agents commerciaux. En 1917 elle employait 20 000 femmes. Ses agents gagnaient de 5 à 15 dollars par jour. Sara voulait que les femmes afro-américaines soient financièrement indépendantes, alors elle a encouragé les femmes à ouvrir leur propre entreprise et leur a appris à gérer l'argent. Plus elle devenait riche, plus elle passait du temps à des œuvres de bienfaisance elle a donné des conférences, s'est battue contre l'injustice sociale. Avant de mourir, elle a fait don de plus de 100 000 dollars aux pauvres et à diverses organisations et institutions sociales. Dans son testament, elle a déclaré que les 2/3 de ses futurs bénéfices devraient être reversés à une œuvre de bienfaisance. Elle est morte à l'âge de 51 ans. Elle était considérée comme la femme afro-américaine la plus riche. Quand elle est morte, on pensait que sa fortune se situait entre 500 000 et 1 million de dollars. Au cours de sa vie, Sara n'était pas millionnaire, seulement 2 ans après sa mort, sa richesse a augmenté, mais pendant qu'elle était en vie, elle voulait faire plus de bonnes actions.

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ROLEPLAY HISTORY!

The rules are simple! Post characters you’d like to roleplay as, have roleplayed as, and might bring back. Then tag ten people to do the same (if you can’t think of ten, just write down however many you can and tag that number of people). Please repost, don’t reblog!

CURRENT MUSE(S): (canon muses)

mat cauthon ( the wheel of time )

quinn blackwood ( the vampire chronicles)

michael curry ( the mayfair witches )

adolin kholin ( stormlight archive )

jasnah kholin ( stormlight archive )

syl ( stormlight archive )

vin venture ( mistborn )

ivar the boneless ( vikings )

bellamy blake ( the 100 )

francis de valois ( reign )

cahir ( the witcher saga )

aviendha ( the wheel of time )

min farshaw ( the wheel of time )

paul atredies ( dune )

alia atredies ( dune )

carl grimes ( the walking dead )

aramis ( the three musketeers )

john silver ( black sails )

seth gecko ( from dusk til dawn : the series )

will graham ( hannibal )

rodrigo borgia ( the borgias )

lucrezia borgia ( the borgias )

michael grey ( peaky blinders )

marcel gerard ( the orignals )

anakin skywalker ( star wars )

louis xiv ( versailles )

moiraine damodred ( the wheel of time )

lan mandragoran ( the wheel of time )

and four ocs !

WANT TO WRITE: (maybe i will write them someday, maybe not)

like idk right now? probably none. i considered adding marius from the vampire chronicles but decided against it lol

HAVE WRITTEN:

peter petrelli ( heroes )

jaime lannister ( asoiaf )

theon greyjoy ( asoiaf )

sam "falcon" wilson ( mcu )

raven / mystique ( mcu )

elijah mikaelson ( the the originals )

caroline forbes ( the vampire diaries )

enzo st. john ( the vampire diaries )

elle bishop ( heroes )

arthur petrelli ( heroes )

genevieve ( the orginals )

aurora ( the originals )

matt parkman ( heroes )

kaz brekker ( six of crows )

the darkling ( shadow and bone )

fergus fraser ( outlander )

sarah manning ( orphan black )

james patrick march ( ahs )

tate langdon ( ahs )

jimmy darling ( ahs )

kit walker ( ahs )

ethan chandler ( penny dreadful )

lazlo kreizler ( the alienist )

marcus isaacson ( the alienist )

lucius vorenus ( rome )

dwight enys ( poldark )

nell crain ( the haunting of hill house )

charles xavier ( mcu )

elizabeth of york

gendry ( asoiaf )

dinah madani ( the punisher )

freya mikaelson ( the originals )

carolina villanueva ( high seas )

nicolas sala ( high seas )

WOULD WRITE AGAIN:

not sure who i would ? write again ? sometimes i'm like hey maybe but then i'm like nah i don't want to lol

Tagged by: @stcrforged tagging : @caracarnn - @xhideyourfires - @adversitybloomed - @wstfl - @honorhearted - @godresembled - @bas0rexias - @indigodreames and anyone else?

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2023 faves (asterixed came out this year)

music: wallsocket by underscores*, celebration rock by japandroids, romance is boring by los campesinos, juno by remi wolf, dolly mixture, le tigre self titled

films: desperate living, bloodsisters, smithereens, asteroid city/wes anderson's roald dahl shorts*, may december*, all that jazz, doom generation, enys men*

books: biography of x by catherine lacey*, missing time by ari brostoff, heroine by gail scott, fair play by tove jansson, all of sarah schulman's fiction, idlewild by james frankie thomas*, walking through clear water in a pool painted black by cookie mueller

tagged by @weirdgirlification, tagging @edwardalbee @ambientwitch @thepoisonroom @steveyockey @leonardcohenofficial @loamvessel @bloodgutshighschool

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Farewell 2024

Here we are. The end of the year, once again.

To say this year's been difficult would be an understatement.

However, there are several positives we need to consider:

I FINISHED UNI! After 5 years (2020-2024) of studying, crying, 2 hour public transport journeys and getting sick, I finally finished what I set out to do: gain a Bachelor's degree. Bonus: I learned new things about video and photo editing, which led me to be more enthusiastic about YouTube projects.

We adopted rescue dog Estelle. We lost Zoe in August 2023, and we weren't expecting to adopt a new dog so soon, but we found Estelle and fell in love. After 9 months of hard work and dedication, she's progressed from terrified pup to absolute cuddle bug with a loud voice.

I fell in love!

Got a router and bits and have plans to do more woodwork in the new year.

Unfortunately there are negatives we need to balance out our lives, and some of my biggest negatives are the drop in my mental health, losing my aunty to gall bladder cancer, and burning myself out several times.

Being able to travel so much and see TWO musicals this year also helped a ton.

I fell in love with Sunset Boulevard in 2020, and being able to watch THE Sarah Brightman as Norma Desmond in Melbourne this year was amazing and fantastic!

Then I got to see my favourite Disney movie reimagined in theatre earlier this month, which was mystifying.

I went to Castlemaine, Williamstown, Caloundra, down the Great Ocean Road, Ballarat Wildlife Park, and Altona, which were amazing.

Finishing up with a short letter to my future self to read when 2025 ends:

Dear future Booky, hopefully this year doesn't weigh you down anymore. I hope we learn everything that's making us ill, and hopefully our plans and intentions solidify so we can be more productive.

Immediate plans for next year:

Get a job.

Bookshelf for my room and dollhouse for my sister.

Crochet more! FNAF the musical Nate, Resident Enis Mark, and mini God of Night in the works.

Sew again. Sailor/navy dress, clothes for mum, and more circle skirts.

Work on YouTubing

So, here ends 2024, and I'll see you in 2025! I'll do a best of art, crochet, and sewing later.

[theygetthehangofit]

Perkembangan calistung Maryam

● Berhitung

♡ Berhitung 1-10 lancar sejak umur 2,5 tahun, sekarang sampai dua puluh tapi belum lancar, sepertinya belum paham konsep berulang setelah bilangan puluh.

♡ Paham konsep tambah dan kurang dengan contoh kasus. Misal Maryam punya 5 apel, jika Maryam memberi sarah 1 apel maka maryam punya 4 apel untuk dimakan.

♡ Paham konsep menghitung uang dan kembalian, namun belum seutuhnya paham dsn sering terjadi kesalahan.

● Membaca:

♡baru sekedar paham.konsep bahwa dalam 1 kalimat terdiri dari kata dan dari setiap kata terdiri dari huruf. Sering dia bertanya, ibu kalau dalam kata IBU itu ada huruf B nya ya? Dst. Akhirnya dibuatlah kuis seperti di atas yang dihilangkan 1 kata di dalamnya. Banyak soal yanh diberikan namun kami fokus belajar dan bermain, tidak sempat mendokumentasikan yang lain. Kata yang dijadikan bahan soal adalah: IBU, AYAH, ENI, BAPA, AKI, MARYAM, SARAH, INI, ITU, UBI, dll. Sambil merangsang bunyi-bunyi huruf supaya bisa dia pahami korelasi antara bentuk dan bunyinya serta penempatan hurud yang dihilangkan bervariasi, kadang di depan, ditengah dan kadang di akhir.

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Sarah Enys in 1936.

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"EXISTING IS NOT A CRIME!"

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Preview: 2023 Boston Underground Film Festival

From Wed. March 22 to Sun. March 26, the Boston Underground Film Festival takes over Harvard Square at The Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, MA). The fest is in its 23rd edition and it is a celebration of bizarre, weird and alt cinema!

Here at Green’s Party, I’ve been lucky enough to cover the festival since 2016 (the fest took off in 2020 and 2021, and I was unable to attend 2022). Here are some of the highlights of this year’s BUFF:

Wed. March 22:

Opening Night film is Jeffrey A. Brown’s The Unheard, which is going to be on Shudder later this month. The film finds a young deaf woman undergoing experimental treatment to regain her hearing. Recovering at her family’s beach home, she fears she is not alone - all while uncovering family secrets and experiencing psychological strife and auditory hallucinations. It was filmed in Massachusetts and it was written by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen (full disclosure: the writing duo are friends of mine). Then it’s Nightsiren from Slovakia. The trailer is pure WTFery!

Thurs. March 23:

BUFF doesn’t screen nearly as many documentaries as narrative films, but the ones they do are quite noteworthy. The doc Stand By For Failure: A Documentary about Negativeland looks at the experimental Bay area music group Negativeland. Then it’s back to narrative films with the sci-fi Spaghetti Junction, about a teen discovering a mysterious place in the woods. From France, the Canne Film Festival hit Smoking Causes Coughing is a wild bonkers super hero film about the dangers of smoking.

Fri. March 24:

First up is The Dunwich Horrors, a collection of short films about New England. Massachusetts certainly has its history with horror stories, but there’s other states like VT and ME represented here as well. This is usually one of my favorite short collections at the fest and among the shorts is Skin & Bone (full disclosure: director Eli Powers is a friend I worked with on a film previously). Then it’s another doc Mister Organ, the new one from David Farrier, director of Tickled. This one looks at the secrets behind a a man at a small antique shop in New Zealand. From U.K. Enys Men is a throwback to 70s horror on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast.

Sat. March 25:

A matinee screening of Moon Garden, about a little girl who falls into a coma and finds herself in a strange new world. One of my favorite shorts programs at BUFF is Sound + Vision, a collection of music videos that push the envelope. Then it’s Butter My Noodle, a collection of comedy short films. Among them is High Moon, directed by my buddy Kevin J. James (director of Not For Resale). From Germany, Piaffe is about a woman who fills in for her sister as a foley artist and grows a horse’s tail. Not a typo! Then it’s the Sundance hit Divinity, which boasts star power of Stephen Dorf and Scott Bakula as well as producer Steven Soderbergh.

Sun. March 26:

First up is Survival is Insufficient, a collection of shorts including CONTENT: The Lo-Fi Man co-directed by BUFF alumni / my friend Brian Lonano (read my interview with him at BUFF 2018 here) and It Takes a Village co-written and co-starring SNL’s Sarah Sherman. Then it’s Destination, a collection of animated shorts that are not suitable for children. Then it’s the festival hit How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a crime thriller about a group of environmental activists who plan a disruption of an oil pipeline. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is about a brilliant teenage girl who tries to bring back her recently murdered brother from the dead. And finally the Closing Night Film is Rebel from Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the Belgium filmmakers known for Bad Boys for Life and Ms. Marvel. This film focuses on a Muslim family torn apart over the future of its youngest member in Belgium. 

For info on this year’s #BUFF23: https://bostonunderground.org/

Stay tuned to Green’s Party for my coverage of this year’s fest!

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Happy Father’s Day!

[upstartpoodle]

Context? Never heard of it.

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I promise I’ll do better

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