The April Peaceable Table is now online

[Gracia Fay Ellwood]

This is the season of the festivals of Passover and Easter, of the
celebration of God's mighty acts of deliverance from bondage.
Accordingly, this issue deals with slavery and the work of
proclaiming liberation.

* The Editorial, "We Were Slaves to Pharaoh," cites the passage of
the 1807 law abolishing the human slave trade, briefly describes the
kinds of human slavery that prevail at present, shows the parallels
to the slavery of animals, and sketches the concept of Exodus as
God's answer to all enslavement.

* NewsNotes describes one of the commemoration events in England of
the bicentennial of the law of 1807.

* Among the Gems are words of wisdom from Martin Luther King Jr. and
Alice Walker.

* One of the Film Reviews deals with Amazing Grace, a dramatization
of the persistent struggle of William Wilberforce and his colleagues
to bring about abolition, and its potential as a model for our own
work.

* A tempting Recipe in this issue is "Antipasto al Verdure
Arroste" (Roasted Vegetable Appetizer).

* Our Pilgrim this month is Giuliana Giuliano, who describes the
tension she felt in childhood between her deep respect for animals
and her distress at being made to eat flesh for a hereditary health
problem; and the freedom into which she is now entering.

* The April Pioneer is Elizabeth Heyrick, a contemporary of
Wilberforce who like him worked tirelessly on behalf both of animals
and of human slaves.

* One of the Poetry selections is Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy,"
perhaps better known as "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."

As always, we invite comments, letters and submissions.

You can read this issue at http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue31.html

Toward Freedom for All,

Gracia Fay Ellwood
Editor