Sentences with phrase «early abolitionists»

Early abolitionists lead with this statement because they couldn't find a condemnation of slavery in the Bible.

One of the early peace groups to draw a connection between feminism and peace was the Garrisonian wing, of the New England Non-Resistance Society in the 1830s, including among its members such prominent early abolitionist - feminists as Maria Weston Chapman, Lucretia Mott and William Lloyd Garrison himself.

Early abolitionist literature has striking parallels to today's «liberation theology.»

Not exact matches

The reaction is hardly a new one: abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier wrote to Sarah and Angelina Grimke, early American abolitionists and advocates of women's rights, about their concern for women: «Is it not forgetting the great and dreadful wrongs of the slave in a selfish crusade against some paltry grievance of [your] own?»

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was explicitly abolitionist at its founding, and much early literature of the denomination has recently come back into print for «black studies» programs.

If you'd bother researching before opening your pathetic little mouth, you would have discovered that Mormons were abolitionist, something that caused a great deal of friction between them and the other residents of Missouri in the early days of the church.

Every movement to make America more fully realize its professed values has grown out of some form of public theology, from the abolitionists to the social gospel and the early socialist party to the civil rights movement under Martin Luther King and the farm workers» movement under Caesar Chavez.

The early editors of the Guide to Holiness were abolitionists.

During the antebellum years, these communication technologies facilitated the anti-slavery campaign that started in earnest in the early 1830s, allowing abolitionist broadsides, brochures, books and newspapers to be distributed cheaply and widely throughout the North and helping Frederick Douglass and other abolitionist speakers spread their message to northern towns large and small.

I'm awed by her ability to take such different subjects — an abolitionist in the Civil War (March), a Wampanoag Indian in early America (Caleb's Crossing), a maid in plague - ridden England (Year of Wonders)-- and bring them vividly to life.

In it, Kidd takes the bare facts surrounding Charleston's famous (and infamous) 19th century abolitionist / emancipist sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and, as she puts it, grafts fiction onto truth to weave a fascinating and inspirational account of early abolitionism in America.

The Great Hall also hosted abolitionist Frederick Douglass, women's suffrage champions Susan B. Anthony and Victoria Woodhull, Samuel Gompers, and the earliest workers» rights campaign movements.

From the earliest Quaker abolitionist John Woolman in the 1700s to Barrack Obama in 2008 leads a thread of American thought that says that a black man or woman is equal under God and the law, and could even be President of the United States.

Many of these early animal advocates had close ties to anti-slavery abolitionists.

Waukegan had an abolitionist community dating to these early days.