Andy (River) Peterson

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

@dliebelson Cc: @KSUweeddoc thoughts? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KimZetter: Great piece from Zack explaining his dilemma in sending real/hidden IPs of child porn site to FBI “while journalists are tol… — PolitiTweet.org

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Concentration camp update, and yes I am nauseous typing that — PolitiTweet.org

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@GeneMeyer @belishabeacons Indeed — PolitiTweet.org

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@DrMRFrancis Thanks! — PolitiTweet.org

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@belishabeacons @GeneMeyer History is all around us, but it’s often pretty depressing — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JaredRizzi: Come for this epic mural of John Brown, STAY for the amazing local (DC) history of Osborne Perry Anderson. https://t.co/RvI… — PolitiTweet.org

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@rachsyme FIVE FOR FREEDOM, a book illuminating the stories of the five African-Americans who joined John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, which is especially timely today—the 160th anniversary of the insurrection. https://t.co/GWPcLmBJfx — PolitiTweet.org

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@oliviacpaschal Of course! I didn’t know about it until earlier this year despite growing up in a state rightly (I think) proud of Brown—it’s a fascinating read! — PolitiTweet.org

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@oliviacpaschal Agreed. Also worth reading today is the first-person account from the raid from the sole surviving African-American member of the raiding party Osborne Perry Anderson: https://t.co/NNYfjCYPjc — PolitiTweet.org

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@LadyPutz Love to escape there! And the John Brown Wax museum is... an experience. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RonHogan Thank you for sharing it! — PolitiTweet.org

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If you want to read more than just a thread about this, I encourage you to check out @GeneMeyer’s book Five For Freedom, which helps illuminate all their stories. — PolitiTweet.org

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By all means, remember Brown today. I do. But make sure you also remember Osborne Perry Anderson and the four other African Americans heroes who died during or were executed following the raid: Dangerfield Newby, Shields Green, Lewis Sheridan Leary, and John Anthony Copeland. — PolitiTweet.org

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So I’m trying to tell it as often as I can, through conversations with neighbors, visual art like this penny mosaic portrait, and my in-process musical “Posterity at least will do me justice” that shares the stories of Anderson and Mary Ann Day Brown, Brown’s widow. https://t.co/dgI1TdsNUm — PolitiTweet.org

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Unfortunately, that’s not very surprising. Even when talking about oppressed people, too often we focus on the stories of white male savior figures. But telling Anderson’s story is one way to change that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Now I live in DC, just a few blocks away from where Anderson was buried. But every neighbor I’ve told about him and what happened to Columbian Harmony Cemetery is shocked. They don’t know about this hero, let alone his ties to our city. — PolitiTweet.org

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I grew up in Kansas, where Brown is a literally larger than life figure—in a mural in our State Capitol, he looms over the prairie holding high a bible and a rifle. https://t.co/AFdkRXDihN — PolitiTweet.org

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The tens of thousands of bodies buried there were moved to the suburbs, to what is now National Harmony Memorial Park. But not the tombstones. Those were apparently used for rubble, and some were discovered by kayakers decades later along the banks of the Potomac. — PolitiTweet.org

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That cemetery no longer exists. It went bankrupt in the late 1950s and the land was sold to developers. It’s now the Rhode Island Avenue Metro stop. — PolitiTweet.org

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Anderson lived in DC after the War. When he died in 1872, he was buried along with many other important African-American luminaries at Columbian Harmony Cemetery. — PolitiTweet.org

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(You can read it here!!! https://t.co/kIRqg2iYOO) — PolitiTweet.org

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He narrowly escaped during the Harpers Ferry raid, living on to see emancipation and publish the only first-hand account of the raid with help from female African-American journalism pioneer Mary Ann Shadd Cary. — PolitiTweet.org

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Osborne Perry Anderson was born free in Pennsylvania, but moved to Canada where he joined up with Brown and was “elected” a Congressman in an abolitionist convention at Chatham dedicated to creating a new, slavery-free provisional U.S. Constitution. — PolitiTweet.org

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You might know about Brown, who was caught and executed on treason charges. But you probably don’t know about Osborne Perry Anderson, the lone black survivor of the raiding party. Let’s change that! https://t.co/fbVb8MjXDk — PolitiTweet.org

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HISTORY THREAD TIME! Today marks the 160th anniversary of the failed raid on Harpers Ferry, an attempt by John Brown and band of patriots to kick off a second American Revolution before the Civil War. https://t.co/aKE7DHzd1N — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TonyaJoRiley: "Today, when you use Wizards Unite or Pokémon Go or any of Niantic’s other apps, your every move is getting documented an… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LAM_Barrett: fun reminder that driver's license data is part of how palantir is helping ICE find people, and palantir has a contract wi… — PolitiTweet.org

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@briana9 @BeAJayhawk We ate so much of the Pizza & Politics pizza during our illustrious tenure that it would have been rude to turn the invitation down https://t.co/HRFGmlMu7F — PolitiTweet.org

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@briana9 @BeAJayhawk SOON! Confirmed my availability and just setting up scheduling and travel — PolitiTweet.org