Early in Hoosier history, Quakers settled all across central Indiana and proclaimed the principal of reciprocal freedom. Their emphasis on fairness guaranteed that whatever freedom I enjoy, I must grant to you. In the mid-1860s, Indianas leadership, especially GOP Gov Oliver Morton and US Rep Robert Owen, strongly supported Congressional Reconstruction and the equal rights of all free African-Americans and freedmen liberated by the Civil War. These radical ideas of equality and fairness are our basic Hoosier values. We have every right to assert this powerful traditional!
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:15:21 +0000
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