Sentences with phrase «abolish slavery once»

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.

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This even happened once slavery was abolished (think black mammies).

Two - time Academy Award winner Daniel Day - Lewis once again disappears into his latest role, this time as President Abraham Lincoln in «Lincoln,» director Steven Spielberg's dramatization of the 16th president's final months in office and his actions to end the Civil War, abolish slavery, and unite the country.

Once upon a time there were probably few people who had imagined that slavery could be abolished or that women could vote in elections.

Such radical changes have happened in human history: slavery, once perceived as economically prudent and otherwise «normal,» was abolished.