Sentences with phrase «amendment abolishing slavery»

In one pivotal scene, Lincoln and his Cabinet gather to discuss the proposed amendment abolishing slavery.

Chronicling Abraham Lincoln's final months as he engineers passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, «Lincoln» stars best - actor contender Day - Lewis in a monumental performance as the 16th president, supporting - actress nominee Field as the notoriously headstrong Mary Todd Lincoln and supporting - actor prospect Jones as abolitionist firebrand Thaddeus Stevens.

Afterward, we're in Lincoln's private chambers as he describes this dream to his wife, Mary Todd (Sally Field), who eventually suggests that it's a vision of his role in the forthcoming political battle to pass the 13th constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.

«Lincoln» follows the title character, the 16th president of the United States (played by Daniel Day - Lewis) as he pushes for the passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.

On slavery: The Emancipation Proclamation, the Union's military victory, and the enactment of the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery throughout the nation.

Not exact matches

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

(Compton explains that because slavery was abolished through formal amendments, abolitionism did not have the same impact on constitutional interpretation as did anti-lottery and anti-liquor campaigns.)

It was not until the great Civil War amendments that slavery was finally abolished and the promise of «equal protection of the laws» was made — a promise that has not yet been kept.

Aptly named 13th, for the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, this documentary follows the aftermath of the American Civil War for African Americans, and how slavery has only been perpetuated by different practices throughout the years like disenfranchisement and mass incarceration.

The good and noble deed at the center of the film is the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment, the monumental piece of legislation that definitively abolished American slavery and laid the sturdy groundwork for a century and a half of civil rights struggle.

Adapted by Tony Kushner partly from Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals, the two - and - a-half-hour film begins in 1865 when Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) is urgently trying to get the 13th Amendment passed to abolish slavery.

Synopsis: With the nation embroiled in still another year with the high death count of Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) brings the full measure of his passion, humanity and political skill to what would become his defining legacy: to end the war and permanently abolish slavery through the 13th Amendment.

Instead, Spielberg has chosen to focus on a specific chunk of time: the months between the 16th President's re-election to a second term and his passing the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, abolishing slavery once and for all.

You could almost imagine the two films, or at least their heroes, figuring in the kind of good - natured, racial - stereotype humor that used to be a staple of stand - up comedy (and was memorably parodied on «The Simpsons»): «white guys abolish slavery like this» (pass constitutional amendment); «but black guys, they abolish slavery like this» (blow up plantation).

But Spielberg's depiction of the state of affairs on the floor of Congress during debates over the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, is another shot of cold water to the face.

Instead it's a stately account of the behind - the - scenes legislative drama that Abraham Lincoln had to negotiate to get the slavery - abolishing 13th Amendment passed through Congress before the four - year Civil War's imminent end.

He wants to win the war, and he wants to abolish slavery by passing the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

Now playing in theaters nationwide is Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, an intimate biopic detailing the last few months of his life and the passing of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery.

With much political power and a sizeable number of lame duck Democrats with nothing to lose, Lincoln views it as the perfect time to pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which would abolish slavery and essentially force the Confederates hand in the war.

It's confined to the final four months of his life, as the Civil War was ending and the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery was being debated.

Set during the American Civil War in January 1865, Lincoln focuses on President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) as he attempts to abolish slavery in the USA by passing the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives.

The President determines this is the best and perhaps only opportunity to pass an amendment to the Constitution that would abolish slavery.

The film focuses on the fact that when slavery was abolished with the passage of the 13th amendment, prisoners were excluded, creating a culture of forced labor in correctional institutions.

Summary: The Civil War rages on as America's president battles with the House of Representatives for the passage of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery.

I am quite aware, sir, that history says the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the United States of America in 1865, and that ensuing amendments extended to former slaves the precious rights and protections our nation guarantees to all its citizens regardless of color.