Sentences with phrase «freed slaves of»

Professor Lubet's latest book is The «Colored Hero» of Harper's Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which tells the stories of the African - American abolitionists who joined John Brown's attempt to free the slaves of Virginia.

Not exact matches

By contrast, in Louisiana — reflecting the incredible tension over slavery and existential fear of revolt — «it was a capital crime to print or distribute material, or to make a speech or display a sign, or even to have a private conversation, that might spread discontent among the free black population or insubordination among slaves.»

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Some of the world's biggest retailers and food companies including Kellogg Co, Walmart Inc, and Nestle backed a new initiative on Wednesday to improve global supply chains amid rising consumer demand for slave - free goods and services.

LONDON, April 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Some of the world's biggest retailers and food companies including Kellogg Co, Walmart Inc, and Nestle backed a new initiative on Wednesday to improve global supply chains amid rising consumer demand for slave - free goods and services.

In this book, DeMarco examines how to break free of the Monday - to - Friday «slave cycle,» how to create a radical but successful business framework and how to really get motivated.

1 55 million Second World War 20C 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C 3 40 million Mongol Conquests 13C 4 36 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C 7 20 million Annihilation of the South and North American Indians 15C - 19C 8 20 million Iosif Stalin 20C 9 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C 10 18 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C 11 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 12 17 million British India (mostly famine) 19C 13 15 million First World War 20C 14 9 million Russian Civil War 20C 15 8 million Fall of Rome 3C - 5C 16 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 17 7 million Thirty Years War 17C 18 5 million Russia's Time of Troubles 16C - 17C 19 4 million Napoleonic Wars 19C 20 3 million Chinese Civil War 20C 21 3 million French Wars of Religion 16C

Keep it in context you will note they were reminded of their oppression as slaves under Egypt and set free by God.

It is the same old structure that has been standing since the 30's, on a foundation of land that probably was purchased by free slaves.

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists / atheists vs. Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism / atheists) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C (Christians) 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm

Why didn't your extra-special all - knowing god tell his people that they should free their slaves instead of keeping them?

All equal, male / female, slave / free, Jew / Greek... All are called to ministry through all walks of life.

The real Tom «Why didn't your extra-special all - knowing god tell his people that they should free their slaves instead of keeping them?»

The Bible is the source of equality... in that it is written that God is not a respector of persons for there are neither male nor female, slave or free... we are all equal.

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists vs. Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C (Communism vs. Christianity et al) 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians vs pagans) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans vs Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C

To be a slave or bondservant of Christ is meant to imply one's gratefulness and sense of debt to Christ for bing set free.

17 - 26) present a formidable array of statutes governing economic life: mandatory lending, interest - free loans, sabbatical rest and festivals, jubilee releases and land tenure, gleaning restrictions, tithing, debt remission, slave manumission, and the preferential treatment of widows, orphans and strangers.

And for the first two years of the war, the North fought to restore the Union, not to free the slaves, because even Lincoln felt that Northerners would cease fighting if that was the declared goal.

The Jews were slaves of the Egyptian rule and became a free society.

And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, «Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!

Pretty strong language, but no stronger than the metaphor Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation used, in an op - ed article in The Washington Times, to «describe a bill designed to prevent corporations from rechartering abroad for tax purposes: Mitchell described this legislation as the «Dred Scott tax bill,» referring to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that required free states to return escaped slaves.

Jesus, invoking the words of Isaiah and sharing God's dreams for the world, announces the inauguration of a new Kingdom in which the Year of Jubilee — when debts are forgiven, slaves set free, land and its abundance shared — is celebrated perpetually.

We have been set free from sin and our responsibility as Christians is to work together with Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit to stay that way, slaves of God.

22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

Aristotle wrote that «the smallest and primary parts of the household are master and slave, husband and wife, father and children» and devoted several sections of his Politics to the importance of free men ruling over their wives, children, and slaves.

A family in that day might very well include multiple wives, with the male head - of - house free to force slaves to satisfy him sexually as well.

They have championed freeing the slaves in the South as well as women suffrage whereas atheism has given us champions of oppresion like Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung... among others

--(It is) to free a slave, And to feed in the day of hunger An orphan near of kin, Or some poor wretch in misery, And to be of those who believe and exhort one another to perseverance and exhort one another to pity.

Yes, the Apostle Paul spoke about how there is «neither male nor female, slave nor free, Jew nor Gentile» in the family of God, but he was also quick to acknowledge those same categories when he saw one group oppressing the other.

Jesus told his followers, «if you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free... Everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin... If the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed (John 8:31, 32, 36).

When, however, the same sin says, Be independent; don't be a slave of old codes; all the world loves a rebel; show the stuff you are made of by breaking free from cramping restrictions which keep your native instincts down; be a man!

But before she did all that, Biddy successfully sued her owners for her freedom after the family and their slaves moved to the free state of California in the 1850s.

It encourages the emancipation of slaves by giving them the possibility of purchasing their freedom, it urges that part of zakat be given to slaves to help them free themselves, and it offers the possibility of atonement for certain sins, such as having sexual intercourse during fasting days, by releasing slaves.

Out of the original Christian hope for the imminent coming of the Kingdom of God evolved the institution of the church (in which there was to be «neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female»); 3 this eventually developed into Christendom.

Because we are no longer bound by the Curse, but are compelled by the resurrection of Jesus Christ to build a kingdom in which the old power structures dividing Jew from Greek, male from female, and slave from free are dismantled and replaced by mutual love, submission, and grace.

Because of a «universal feeling, whether well - or ill - founded» (a feeling that Lincoln confessed he shared), the option of making freed slaves «politically and socially our equals» was also excluded.

Also unacceptable, he said, is the alternative of freeing the slaves and then keeping them here as «underlings.»

His own preference was to «free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia,» but he knew the «sudden execution» of such a plan to be «impossible.»

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

14.33] a sign of forgiveness; the feast is a sign of rejoicing; the robe marks him as an honoured guest; the ring is a signet ring and a symbol of authority; the shoes mark him as a free man, not a slave.

15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, [g] the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, «Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!

In March of 1865, Lincoln saw to the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau to assist the Negroes in making the transition from the slave to the free state.

The Decalogue is not the imposition of the will of an arbitrary divinity; the Ten Commandments help the liberated from falling back into the bad moral habits of slaves, and thus help a free people remain faithful to the logic of their liberation.

If the early church could hold together communities made up of Jews and Greeks, slaves and free, men and women, circumcised and uncircumcised, tax collectors and zealots, prostitutes and Pharisees, kosher believers and non-kosher believers, those who ate food sacrificed to idols and those who refused, I guess this evolution - accepting, hell - questioning, liberal - leaning feminist can worship Jesus alongside a Tea Party complementarian who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and that Ghandi and Anne Frank are in hell.

I believe, with every ounce of my being, that patriarchy is a manifestation of a fallen, broken world and that a new creation in which «there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, slave nor free, for all are one in Christ Jesus» began at the resurrection, an event first announced to the world by women.

But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, the son of the free woman through promise.

While some have called an internship «slave labor» or «free work no one else wants to do,» the goal of an internship is to «provide supervised practical training.»

The customary term for this kind of exegesis is allegory, a word first introduced into Christian speech by St. Paul in the Epistle to the Galatians: «It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman.

observer «The Bible supports:» «slavery» = > No, the Bible begins to reign in the abuse of slaves as was common and remind the Hebrew to never forget what it felt like for 430 years as oppressed slaves under Egypt; «I am the Lord your God who set you free from the slavery of Egypt».

It is that abstract faith, those abstract propositions to which we are dedicated, that is the heart and soul of the civil religion; but we can, of course, never forget the historical circumstances in which those words originated — a revolutionary war of independence and a war to decide whether this nation would be slave or free.

If we succeed in changing the hierarchies we have imposed on people according to their race and color and sex, then we can have a world of persons, of horizontal relationship rather than hierarchy, a world of expression rather than oppression, where «there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female,» where we are all «one in Christ Jesus.»