Sentences with phrase «abolitionist movements»

Rochester is home to about 211,000 residents, including at one point two leaders of the suffragette and abolitionist movements: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, and the student population of the Univeresity of Rochester.

You have not studied much about the role of Christians and Christian churches in the abolitionist movements both in the United States and in Great Britain, have you?

Dalahäst If you dug through all of Church history you might find a few leaders like St. Patrick who openly opposed slavery, but the vast majority regarded it as consistent with Christian theology up until the general abolitionist movement.

Were Catholics who joined the abolitionist movement also sinning, by claiming that the institution was evil prematurely, before the popes got around to it?

I think it's important to note which branch of Christianity was influential in the abolitionists movement.

For example, William Wilberforce (who is largely responsible for bringing the abolitionist movement to bear in the English speaking world) fought & successfully changed the British Empire's laws based on his very * conservative * biblical understanding.

Obvious examples of this need which have surfaced previously are the church's doctrine of the Trinity and the Christian Abolitionist movement.

By this is Elliot suggesting, for example, that the Abolitionist movement was un-Christian?

The abolitionist movement that finally eliminated slavery was largely a religious movement, animated by the religious belief that all men are equal in the eyes of God.

A prominent element in Gilead is the abolitionist movement, which tackled the major social issue of the 19th century: slavery.

American feminism of the 19th century was born of the abolitionist movement, and of equal significance with Friedan's book as impetus for the current women's movement was the experience of women in the civil rights and antiwar protests of the «60s.

-- A black - and - white photo of Frederick Douglass, a leader of the abolitionist movement and a Rochester resident.

Almost unheard in the background of 12 Years a Slave was the Christian - driven abolitionist movement that would, within a decade of Northup's book (he disappears from history, perhaps to Canada), plunge the United States into a four - year civil war whose savagery matched 1914 - 18, though no one realised until too late.

The First Reformed of Paul Schrader's new film is a church, a small edifice in upstate New York with a rich history in the abolitionist movement, a landmark of a bygone age of activism and justice.

Urged on by the abolitionist movement, the crusading MP, (played by an engaging but one - note Ioan Gruffudd) used his oratorical gifts to win a vote in the Commons.

If you're looking for other sites related to the issues of slavery and the abolitionist movement, a handful are listed below.

The curriculum of the course seems broad enough — covering the role of Christianity in the founding, the abolitionist movement, civil rights, the fall of communism — but it seems downright all - encompassing when compared, as it was in the complaint, with approved classes like «Modern Irish History» and «Armenian History.»

Now, a new biography, I Was Born a Slave: The Story of Harriet Jacobs (Millbrook Press), written by Jennifer Fleischner and illustrated by Melanie Reim, gives students a look at slavery from the perspective of a woman who not only survived it but also went on to help and support others in the abolitionist movement.

Just as we needed an abolitionist movement then, we need one now - with the right mindset.

The Liberty Bell was known as the «Independence Bell» or the «Old Yankee's Bell» until 1837, when it was adopted by the American Anti-Slavery Society as a symbol of the abolitionist movement.

A mystery to himself, Victor suppresses his memories of his childhood on a plantation, and works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines.

(In this way, Ashton's legal battle resembles the 1772 Somerset's Case, which paved the way for England's abolitionist movement.)

He travels from the White House to war zones and immerses us in the political and flesh - and - blood battles on the front lines of the unheralded new abolitionist movement.

This report examines the emergence of an organized abolitionist movement in Britain by 1787 and assesses how important this social movement was in achieving the passage of abolitionist legislation in 1807.

In his comments, Gore equated the fight against global warming to a religious - based, moral crusade similar to the civil rights fight, women's suffrage, and the abolitionist movement during the Civil War era.

Do you burn the candle at both ends developing revolutionary pharmaceuticals at Abbott Laboratories by day and cataloguing the history of the local abolitionist movement at night?

Not exact matches

Remember, morals change in society; look at the abolitionist, women's suffrage, and civil rights movement, all of them originally didn't have «morality» on their side, but as society changed, the morals changed.

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.

He wants «to build a movement of grace - driven abolitionists — people of faith and conscience who want to put an end to death forever.

Single or late - marrying women, she writes, have been integral to the abolitionist, suffragist, labor, civil and gay rights, and, of course, feminist movements, and to the transformation of marriage itself.

The students had learned about the importance of needlepoint and quilting in women's lives, particularly during the abolitionist, suffrage, and temperance movements, and the legitimate historical documentation that these handiworks have provided over the years.

The texts focus on different aspects of Aferican American culture and events in African American history such as the abolitionist and post-abolitionist movement.

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.

The latest proof that I do not get out enough comes via this post yesterday on the Against Monopoly blog, which discusses an entire movement within the law that I did not know existed: the «copyright abolitionists.»