Sentences with phrase «about slaves»

They can read about slaves chained on a slave ship, but when it's their character that they're writing about, they gain historical empathy.»

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Now, this may strike us as a little odd because we know Jesus wasn't in the habit of speaking unkindly about slaves or people of low status.

Lincoln and the North didn't care about the Slaves it was about GETTING THE SOUTH BACK INTO THE UNION.

So of course I was all up in arms when I found out that a bunch of publishers and politicians tried to «civilize» these documents by taking out the parts they didn't like — the n - word from a new edition of Huck Finn and those embarrassing sections about slaves counting as three - fifths of a person in Congress» reading of the Constitution.

The only way a person more ethically advanced than Saddam Hussein can approve of this grotesquely evil practice is by assuming, as Southern leaders once did about slaves, that there is no human victim involved.

But what about the slaves, I wondered?

Did someone REALLY look up all the scriptures about slaves and then say we should get slavery back in the country but they are not for slavery?

Your God was all about the slaves...!

(Of course, that's exactly what the «Literal Word of God» folks are doing, too, but they carry the burden of having to reconcile all those unfortunate lines about slaves, murder, rape, and so on with spiritual wholeness.)

Read the whole thing and you will see it is not simply about slaves and masters, but something concerning everyone.

You need a history lesson, start with the wars of Muhammad, read about the slave raids into Christendom by the Caliphates, study the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottomans, and finish today with the persecution of Christians.

And when you lick the bowl think about me slaving away on another literary analysis or critical theory paper, hunched over my computer, probably not even with matching socks on.

Following this compromise, another controversy erupted: What should be done about the slave trade, the importing of new slaves into the United States?

The movie, which officially opens on February 21, is about a slave turned gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator.

Looking to explore and learn more about my slave self.

Director Quentin Tarantino lights up your Christmas holiday with gunfire in this tale of revenge about a slave trying to rescue his wife.

It is no surprise that the master of cinematic homage's makes a film that is part Western part blaxploitation film about a slave in search of his wife and revenge.

It must crush the soul of an actor, though, to have people shouting the name of a wisecracking bear at him on the day his movie about a slave rebellion in Haiti opens.

- «12 Years a Slave»'s Chiwetel Elijofor had his first feature role in Steven Spielberg's «Amistad», the story about a slave ship revolt and the trial of the once free man who led it; a film which also co-starred his biggest challenger for Best Actor, Matthew McConaughey.

One imagines a Tarantino film about slave traders and bounty hunters not culminating in copious bloodshed would provoke some outrage.

Vazante (Unrated) 19th Century saga, set in Brazil's Diamantina Mountains, about a slave - trading plantation owner (Adriano Carvalho) who decides to marry his 12 year - old niece (Luana Nastas), after his wife dies during childbirth.

Nate Parker wrote, directed and stars in this drama about slave rebellion leader Nat Turner, which sold for a record $ 17.5 m at this year's Sundance film festival

Students then prose their own enquiry questions about slave capture.

There was a time, for example, when historians didn't worry much about the slave trade and the emergence of an economy based on forced labor.

I got the idea about buying a healer from an antebellum newspaper account (from Maryland I believe) about a slave who had reputedly discovered a cure for a poisonous snake bite.

Tomlinson, an AP foreign correspondent, went back to his home town in Texas and discovered the truth about his slave - owning ancestors.

As I thought about this slave doctor, an image popped into my head of a man on a horse, holding his hand out to a young woman, a slave, and pulling her up onto the horse.

Bell's intricately plotted historical novel about the slave revolt in Haiti is as electrifying in intensity as it is grand in scope.

You might think you know about the slave trade, but you don't understand it, it's daily rhythms and international consequences until you read this book.

Consequently, the first story, about a slave who murders his lover and then meets her once again while on the run, and the final story, which uses the Quibungo — a mythical wilderness monster with a mouth in the back of its neck — as a symbolic terror, both resonate the most robustly.

Reading about the Slave Chambers is so shocking and sad but I agree it is an important piece of history to remember and never repeat.

This letter was about a slave named Henry who walked 60 miles, from Huntsville, Alabama to Shelbyville, Tennessee, to announce the birth of my great - great grandmother.

Installation by Atlanta artist Radcliffe Bailey titled Spiritual Migration, about slave ancestors» arrival in New Jersey.

to bear the weight of the heavens Warm Up 2 With your partner, discuss the following topic: What do you already know about the slave trade out of Africa to / Americas and Caribbean The dispersal of Africans throughout the New World is directly related to slavery, as they were forced to go wherever labor was demanded.

I'm not thinking about the slave labour that went into creating them for 15 bucks a pair... well, I am thinking about it a bit... but I'm trying to block it out.

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Ferriss is all about optimization — so if you're still a slave to the corporate life, this book just might inspire and enable you to take the leap and start your own business.

Speaking about Douglass in the present tense, Trump praised his accomplishments and claimed that the former slave and celebrated writer was becoming more well - known.

Ever get butterflies before you're about to do a presentation or reveal that project you've been slaving over?

With an estimated 46 million people globally living in slavery, human trafficking is being taken increasingly seriously in all countries with Britain home to an estimated 13,000 slaves and authorities identifying about 3,260 people victims in 2015.

But also, more importantly, because the whole point of thinking about seasonal rhythms is to nudge you to pay more attention to what is natural for you and to respect those tendencies rather than being a slave to a fixed routine.

In a forthcoming short article in Canadian Business, I riff on a recent Globe and Mail story about a South African winery that is working hard to face up to its slave - holding past.

It is about building long - term wealth and financial independence so you can join a small, growing group of people who want to live the life they want without slaving countless hours on work they don't care about.

The Pine Point property consists of a semi-contiguous group of 47 mineral claims and mining leases in the Pine Point District, about 10 km south of Great Slave Lake and accessible from Hay River by all - weather year - round highway which parallels the mining lease block.

Kidnapped model Chloe Ayling has revealed she is to tell all about her Black Death sex slave ordeal in a new book.

Thomas Jefferson owned slaves and said horrible things about African - Americans and Native Americans, as in they were inferior to European Americans.

What do we really know about the conditions and the way slaves / bondservants were treated by a «holy people»?

Like ME II and I have pointed out, it does not matter whether the slave was a slave voluntarily or otherwise, mostly because the passage quoted by ME II also does not focus on why the slave is a slave, but a blanket statement about them all.

Ever since Lupita Nyong» o won over the entire world with her searing 12 Years a Slave performance and ensuing Oscar acceptance speech, there have been a lot of questions about...

I was pondering about something similar today for example to the feminist, their theology might be there is not slave not free no man not woman not Jew not gentile, so anything a man can do a woman can do.