Sentences with phrase «abolitionist john»

And three days after the caning, abolitionist John Brown led a raid that killed five pro-slavery residents of Pottawatomie Creek.

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.

Recitals, which Adkins orchestrated with the Corps through collective improvisation, have commemorated and celebrated such figures as abolitionist John Brown, musician John Coltrane, explorer Matthew Henson, and singer Bessie Smith.

The parting of the Red Sea, the Crucifixion, the hanging of the American abolitionist John Brown, and the American Civil War, for example, are depicted by Furnas in dramatic scenes that combine figuration with abstraction.

In two works on view, Cyrus investigates the relationship between individuals and cultures at large, drawing from an archive of African - American political and cultural history that includes abolitionist John Brown, the Black Panthers, and Blaxploitation films.

Olds» haunting, singular first novel takes the form of a quest to understand the fiery soul of abolitionist John Brown.

Winner of the 2013 National Book Award in fiction, The Good Lord Bird follows the intense, violent buildup to the Civil War as viewed through the eyes of Henry, a young slave on the run with famed abolitionist John Brown.

This monumental, fictionalized version of the life of the mythic abolitionist John Brown is told by his son Owen, who survives the raid at Harpers Ferry with equal measures of anger and guilt.

The story centers on a young slave named Henry «Onion» Shackleford (Jaden Smith), who skips town with abolitionist John Brown (Liev Schreiber).

Liev will play radical abolitionist John Brown, who unites with Henry «Onion» Shackleford, a young slave played by Jaden Smith.

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?»

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Most of the abolitionists» John Brown being the most prominent exception» eventually adopted a latitudinarian reading of Scripture, emphasizing the Spirit; some even boldly declared that if the Bible sanctioned slavery they wanted no more to do with it.

Her primary volunteer work was with the Whittier Home Association, stewards of the Amesbury, MA home of John Greenleaf Whittier — Quaker, poet, and notable abolitionist.

Abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman resided here, while others — including John Brown — are buried here.

The sculpture depicts a young slave, who recently ran away from the slaveholding South, with her child, telling her story to three men, William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry Ward Beecher, all noted abolitionists.

Film Review by Kam Williams Civil War Saga Chronicles Exploits of Confederate Soldier - Turned - Slave Revolt Leader While the slave raids led by Nat Turner and John Brown have been well documented in the annals of American history, the relatively - successful exploits of another notorious abolitionist insurrectionist have somehow slipped through the cracks.

In the service of economy, student texts on Civil War history usually sum up John Brown's famous October 16, 1859, abolitionist raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry by noting that Robert E. Lee, then a colonel commanding a modest squad of U.S. soldiers, was responsible for bringing Brown and his associates to bay.

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004) In 1956, Reverend John Ames writes a letter to his son — about his father, a pacifist preacher, and his grandfather, a minster who fought in the Civil War as an abolitionist.

Titled «Still Life with Wedding Portrait,» the painting depicts the abolitionist posing with her first husband John Tubman.

William H. Johnson's «John Brown Legend,» circa 1945, makes the abolitionist its central image and shows him coming down from a cross and being greeted by a mother and her child.

Here the artist presents a portrait of abolitionist Harriet Tubman with her first husband, John, to whom she was married from 1844 to 1851.

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.