Sentences with phrase «abolitionists who»

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.

The «American Colonization Society» was supported by two very different groups: abolitionists who wanted to free African slaves and their descendants and «repatriate» them, and slave owners who feared free people of color and wanted to expel them from America.

Ther e are abolitionists who feel punishment for young people is wrong in all instances.

He certainly didn't think much of the neo-Puritanical Abolitionists who refused to compromise when it comes to personal freedom.

I read a legend once about when Abe Lincoln first met Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionist who also wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852.

She was an American abolitionist who treated the Union Army as a surgeon during the Civil War.

Tommy Lee Jones (yes, the wig is supposed to look silly) explodes on screen as Thaddeus Stevens, a lifelong abolitionist who spits righteous, hilarious fire at his hateful enemies.

Ejiofor is Solomon Northrup, a free black man from upstate New York who is abducted and sold into slavery before finally meeting up with a Canadian abolitionist who will change his life.

The star is surrounded by a corking cast, which includes James Spader as a roguish lobbyist doing the president's dirty work in buying votes, David Strathairn as secretary of state William H Seward (one of that team of rivals) and Jared Harris as Ulysses S Grant; Tommy Lee Jones (pictured below) is a typically cantankerous hoot as Thaddeus Stevens, the radical abolitionist who sacrifices his ambitions for equality to Lincoln's more pragmatic recognition that «freedom comes first».

Apart from Day - Lewis's mighty turn — poised between clomping Illinois farm lawyer and brooding thinker — there's career - high work from Tommy Lee Jones as Republican scowler Thaddeus Stevens, a fierce abolitionist who learns to compromise for the greater good.

In conceiving the quilt works that make up Codex, Biggers was inspired by the Afrofuturist notion of «Harriet Tubman as astronaut,» the renowned abolitionist who led slaves to their freedom guided by the stars.

Not exact matches

Harriet Beecher Stowe, a radical Christian, sought to communicate the abolitionist message to many who had blocked their ears to sermons and jeremiads.

The first Christian abolitionists were a tiny minority, fighting a difficult battle against Christian slavery supporters who could quote twice as much scripture for their position, and still could.

As far as «advocacy for slavery» goes, you might want to check out who the first abolitionist were, especially in Britain and what they gave up to see the ending of slavery.

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?

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.

More than half of all defenses of slavery were written by pastors who cited Scripture to make their case, and Noll immerses the reader in primary sources to unpack and understand those defenses as well as the counter-arguments made by abolitionists.

Many Bible - believing Christians, including those who were uncomfortable with slavery, just weren't buying the abolitionist argument that placed the «spirit of the law» over the «letter of the law.»

But the impassioned, Bible - based rhetoric delivered by both the abolitionists and those who opposed them sure does sound familiar.

Griffiths suggests that unless one is willing to execute everyone who merits it (which, as he notes, we are not), one must be an abolitionist.

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

For one thing, we aimed to show that, contrary to the abolitionist claim that the system is arbitrary, in fact it is only the very worst of the worst who are executed in the U.S. today.

Brown's life parallels that of Douglass in that he too was born into slavery and escaped to become an abolitionist, writer, and orator, who gave nearly a thousand lectures favoring the abolitionist cause in England, Ireland, Scotland.

Douglass (1817 - 1895) was an African American Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion) clergyman who was born into slavery and who escaped from slavery and joined the abolitionists» struggle as an internationally known orator, fund raiser, newspaper publisher, and editor.

Thus, for the African newly chained to the deck of a ship anchored at a West African harbor, the meaning of liberation and the character of the struggle are very different from that of the African - American who, three generations later, like Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown, must consider how best to conduct an abolitionist campaign.

You sound just like the guys who said that MLK and the abolitionists were just liberals who were twisting what the Bible actually said about blacks.

I think there was a time that many believed their faith drove them to seek justice - abolitionists, civil rights leader, healthcare, etc. but now it just seems many want to isolate themselves from the «others» who won't «turn to Christ» and deny them rights in the name of religious liberty.

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

These passages served as fundamental proof texts to those who were arguing that slavery was God's will and accusing abolitionists of failing to obey biblical mandates.

Frederick Douglass, who's buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, declined to comment on Trump saying the abolitionist and author is doing an «amazing job.»

Trump marked the start of African - American History Mark by once again criticizing the media for covering him unfairly while also praising famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass as «somebody who has done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more.»

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.

Dwarfed by the enormity of what it means to illustrate, the diffuse Amistad divides its energies among many concerns: the pain and strangeness of the captives» experience, the Presidential election in which they become a factor, the stirrings of civil war, and the great many bewhiskered abolitionists and legal representatives who argue about their fate.

The strongest pages in Kushner's screenplay explore the delicate divide between abolitionists and those who simply want the war to end.

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

There is a surprising abundance of humor in Lincoln, and typically gruff Jones elicits plenty of chuckles as caustic, blunt Stevens, who tones back his abolitionist rhetoric to help Lincoln get the Thirteenth Amendment passed.

Some abolitionist works like «Uncle Tom's Cabin» could paint slavery as a form of captivity, but the canonical captives of antebellum American literature were white women kidnapped by Indians, who after the Civil War were often replaced by freed slaves as objects of superstitious terror.

He knows that a cessation of the fighting will likely rob the abolitionist cause of much of the support it has gained from those who view an amendment to the Constitution as the quickest way force the South to surrender.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

This adaptation of James McBride's award - winning book follows a young slave in 1856 who travels the nation with an abolitionist.

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

Set during the Kansas - Missouri border war, the film follows Jake (Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull (Skeet Ulrich), who join the Confederate - sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack Bull's father is killed by abolitionist Jayhawkers, and find an unusual ally in Holt (Jeffrey Wright), who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave.

Chiwetel Ejiofor, who embodies the perfect blend of strength and forced passivity as Solomon Northup, was already attached, as were Michael Fassbender as sadistic slave owner Edwin Epps and Brad Pitt as abolitionist Bass.

The month of February was selected because it was the month in which both Frederick Douglass (abolitionist) and Abraham Lincoln (president who...

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.

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.

In congressional debates in 1790 about the possible abolition of slavery, Georgia representative James Jackson attacked the abolitionist Quakers as «outright lunatics» [p. 97] and went on to say, «If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny, the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question» [p. 98].

Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father — an ardent pacifist — and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state.

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.