Sentences with phrase «about slavery»

This may be one of the most accurate and brutal films about slavery ever made.

I do not want to read another book about slavery for quite awhile.

Included: Activities for teaching about slavery across the grades and the curriculum.

But it is also a troubling and important movie about slavery and racism.

In other words: yes, it's as good as you've heard, and is most likely the best film ever made about slavery.

He was likely too poor to even think about slavery.

This is a statement quite consistent with saying that the civil war was not about slavery but states rights.

Thus the passages about slavery that we no longer follow.

It does speak about slavery into a time where it was acceptable and commonplace.

The play spoke the truth about the slavery of sin.

And she told us she never wants to read books about slavery despite the quality of the writing.

If every kid on the planet knew about slavery, then when they become teachers or policymakers, they could make a difference.

I suspect a big reason for this is that reading the household codes in their entirety puts us in the awkward position of confronting the parts about slavery.

There are, of course, other stories about slavery and black people that can and should be told.

I think we need to have a different conversation about slavery and what it's done than we've had.

Though many parts of the church were wrong about slavery, it was not science that defended the inherent dignity and freedom of all humans, but theology.

Just when the culture raises issues about slavery, so also, voices within the church are also rising up against slavery.

Am so happy that we're finally getting something truthful about slavery.

It could be compared to writing a screenplay about slavery for instance — in order for the portrayal to be real the characters have to represent their real prejudice.

Through this vision, he has given the American people a film about slavery that they deserve.

What if one day we come to regard biblical teachings about homosexuality the same way we regard teachings about slavery, or dietary laws, or women covering their heads in church?

Yes, it's a «tough watch» and you shouldn't get anything less from a movie about slavery.

Now they were already here because they were forced in, so to speak, if you think about slavery.

Of course I knew about slavery but mostly in a general context.

In New York City, for example, 266 NYC schools have 0 or just 1 Latino teacher, 327 have 0 or just 1 Black teacher, and 690 have 0 or just 1 Asian teacher Given these statistics, in how many other classrooms across the city are Black children are learning about slavery in a degrading way?

Given these statistics, in how many other classrooms across the city are Black children are learning about slavery in a degrading way?

In a movie about Lincoln, especially one as (blessedly) focused on this period of his life, lots of debate about slavery as an abstract political topic is unavoidable.

He added, «When you hear about slavery for 400 years... like, you was there for 400 years and it's all of y» all?!

We must talk about slavery in the gospels, about Jesus healing but not freeing slaves and using the language of slavery as normative.

«So much of the eighth - grade curriculum revolves around debates about slavery and the onset of the Civil War, and I think it's inappropriate to jump into those discussions without first giving a voice to the people who were injured.

Taking a fresh look at the book of Exodus made Salvation Army officer Danielle Strickland rethink what the Bible says about slavery, oppression and fr... More

Adidas CEO Kasper Rorsted distanced himself from comments about slavery by Kanye West but said the company has not discussed dropping the rapper as a designer.

So you see the BIble made it pretty clear how God felt about slavery, it just took us a long time to realize it... we are a s.inful people after all... And as for g.ay rights, what rights exactly are they fighting for?

Anglican and Roman Catholic cricket teams will face each other in Canterbury in September in a match designed to raise awareness about slavery and human trafficking.

Adidas CEO Kasper Rorsted distanced himself from comments about slavery by Kanye West but said the company has not discussed dropping the rapper as a...

Historical events — a bloody Civil War — forced us to look more closely at how exactly the Bible talks not only about slavery but the biblical meaning and value of a human being.

By teaching students about slavery through these narratives, the Claremont teachers engage their students in writing by personalizing the study of slavery.

At the Hay Festival in Wales over the weekend WillIam Nicholson, the screenwriter for «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» — the Nelson Mandela biopic that starred Idris Elba and boasted a weepy U2 song — bravely stood up and blamed his film's failure (both its mixed critical reception and its paltry stateside grosses) on the U.S. audiences being «so exhausted feeling guilty about slavery that I don't think there was much left over to be nice about our film.»

I have read many novels about slavery and the Civil War but what sets this novel apart from others is that it encompasses so much and so it so well.

But once you start making work about slavery, and about Mississippi, and about your family's role in this horrible, traumatizing institution, you're getting into realms of publicly voicing statements about some very tense subjects that need to be talked about.»

Part of the Middle Passage Law Series «It's always about slavery.

Kanye West, continuing his controversy tour 2018, spoke Tuesday to TMZ Live about slavery, free thought and his love for President Trump.

Post opinion writers Jonathan Capehart and Christine Emba give rapper Kanye West a reality check about slavery in America.

Marr also mischaracterizes Daniel Webster, who opposed slavery and opposed its extension into the territories but was willing to make political compromises about slavery to preserve the Union; who fully expected slavery to gradually disappear in the Southern states; who supported plans for the colonization of freedmen outside the United States; and who in general held views on the subject that were strikingly similar to those of his follower and ardent admirer, Abraham Lincoln.

Dean Hall and others who urge elimination of any symbols relating to the Confederacy, however, propose their case is a simple moral argument about slavery.

Bosty, before makin» all these ignorant accusations about slavery do a little research about the customs of the olden days.