Sentences with phrase «abolish slavery through»

Focusing almost entirely on the former President's efforts to abolish slavery through legislation, there's already been debate about Daniel Day - Lewis» higher - pitched than expected voice which is reportedly historically accurate.

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.

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(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.)

If the love of justice could lead a world that had always known slavery, as mankind had through the nineteenth century, to abolish it, this love can lead America one day to choose life.

In 1833 through pressure from Evangelicals, both Nonconformist and Anglican, an act of Parliament abolished slavery in the British Empire, with monetary compensation to the slave - owners.

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.