Sunday Stamps: the Letter "W"

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cooler morning in the American Midwest - perhaps the heat dome has left us.

It's time for Sunday Stamps.  We are up to the letter W.

I have a stamp from the US Postal Service, honoring Phillis Wheatley, an early enslaved African poet.

Captured in West Africa as a child, she was taken to Boston and sold to the Wheatley family.  They educated her.  They encouraged her writing.  A book of her poems was published in London England in 1773 and brought her some fame.  The Wheatleys emancipated her soon after publication of her book.

More at her Wikipedia entry.

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Sunday Stamps: the Letter "V"

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It's a cloudy morning in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday Stamps.

In our tour of the alphabet we are up to the letter "V".  I have a Russian stamp I have shared before:

An active volcano in the far east of Russia.  I think this came to me in my Postcrossing days.

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Sunday Stamps: the Letter "U"

 Hello and welcome to my blog.  It is a beautiful June day in the American Midwest.

It's time for Sunday Stamps, and this week it's the letter "U".

I have a stamp from the US Postal Service, for the Underground Railroad:

That is Harriet Tubman on the stamp.

I am reminded of fellow students in 6th grade, doing a project and presentation on the Underground Railroad.  They thought it was an actual physical railroad, sort of like a subway (not reading their sources too closely).  I had to tell them it was a network of people, transferring runaway slaves from house to house or other sanctuary.  These were known as stations.  Luckily, I did this before their oral presentation and writing their report!

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Sunday Stamps: the Letter "T"

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.

It's a warm humid cloudy day in the American Midwest, and it may rain later.  Now though it's time for Sunday Stamps.

We are up to the letter "T" in our tour of the alphabet.  SeeitonaPostcard has shared Tulip stamps, and I have a Tulip stamp too, from the US Postal service:

I also am sharing this Thank You stamp from the USPS:

All images are from the USPS; I don't have these in hand.

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