Sentences with phrase «british abolitionist»

British abolitionist William Wilberforce, when he was laboring to abolish slavery in England, led small tours of slave ships.

In the late 18th century, British abolitionists and the Sierra Leone Company founded Freetown as a home for Black Britons * and in 1808 the country became the...

When the British abolitionists come looking for «adventurers» to create a new colony in Sierra Leone, Aminata assists in moving 1,200 Nova Scotians to Africa and aiding the abolitionist cause by revealing the realities of slavery to the British public.

Progress, whether it be Aminata's or the British Abolitionists,» often depends on unholy alliances.

In the late 18th century, British abolitionists and the Sierra Leone Company founded Freetown as a home for Black Britons * and in 1808 the country became the first British colony in Africa.

In the late 18th century, British abolitionists and the Sierra Leone Company founded Freetown as a home for Black Britons * and in 1808 the country became the first British colony in Africa; by 1821 Freetown was the seat of government for all British colonies in West Africa.

Not exact matches

For example, William Wilberforce (who is largely responsible for bringing the abolitionist movement to bear in the English speaking world) fought & successfully changed the British Empire's laws based on his very * conservative * biblical understanding.

As part of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 — named for the famous British Christian abolitionist responsible for the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 — Congress passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA).

Season 3 sees Will Ferrell, an executive producer, playing children's author Roald Dahl during his days as a British spy; Josh Hartnett as Hollywood icon Clark Gable; Oscar winner Octavia Spencer as abolitionist Harriet Tubman; Topher Grace as board game mogul Milton Bradley; Michael Cera as the leader of the New York newsboy strike of 1899; Dennis Quaid and Sam Rockwell as mobsters Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel; Jack Black as Los Angeles water system architect William Mulholland.

In congressional debates in 1790 about the possible abolition of slavery, Georgia representative James Jackson attacked the abolitionist Quakers as «outright lunatics» [p. 97] and went on to say, «If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny, the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question» [p. 98].