Sentences with phrase «against slavery at»

Students explore the arguments for and against slavery at the time.

Not exact matches

An argument against my position, of course, is having African - American soldiers serving at forts named for very or even fantically pro-slavery men (not Lee [although he was okay with slavery], but check out some of the others).

At this point the author turns once again to the deep conventions that ought to instruct our moral imaginations, such as prohibitions against murder, torture, slavery, and the like.

This was followed by five subsequent phases of development in a regular pattern of succession: (1) the organization of home and foreign mission societies to channel new leadership into church planting or into the field; (2) the production and distribution of Christian literature; (3) the renewal and extension of Christian educational institutions; (4) attempts at «the reformation of manners» — i.e., the reassertion of Christian moral standards in a decadent society; and (5) the great humanitarian crusades against social evils like slavery, war and intemperance.

He argued against the evils of slavery with eloquence, but his policy agenda was modest and aimed at the swing voters of the Midwest.

In the call of Abraham to leave the home of his ancestors, in Moses» leading his people away from acquiescence in Egyptian slavery, in the prophetic protests against any localizing or naturalizing domestication of Yahweh's presence, in the apocalyptic rebellions against the status quo, in Jesus» idealizing of homelessness, in the Evangelists» turning our attention toward the Risen Lord and in St. Paul's relentless call to freedom from the slavery of legalism, we have a constant chorus of discontent at the idea that we can find our fulfillment in what nature apart from history has given us.

The NFL is NOT slavery, but the exact same forces are at play when you recall that it was against the law to teach a slave to read because the owners couldn't have them getting too smart.

«La Liga is against child slavery and trafficking of minors but this has nothing to do with coming to play football at the schools of Real Madrid, Barcelona or Atletico, because it is undoubtable that there they are well looked after,» he added.

Given the centrality of slavery as the definitional opposite of freedom in Pettit's account of republicanism, his preference for a kind of institutional arrangement that has shown itself capable of repeatedly holding, at times against democratic majorities, that the state - mandated oppression of minorities is perfectly acceptable is odd.

In his most recent exhibition Queens of the Undead at the Institute of International Visual Arts — Iniva, in London, Donkor presented four of these highly regarded heroic women: «Queen Njinga Mbandi who led her armies against the Portuguese empire in Angola; Harriet Tubman, the underground - railroad leader who freed 70 people from US slavery in the 1850s; Queen Nanny who led the Maroon guerillas in Jamaica that fought the British in the 1700s; and lastly in what is now Ghana, the 20th - century anti-colonial commander - in - chief, Yaa Asantewaa».1 In the second part of the show, three large - scale earlier paintings were on display in which his primary source of artistic creation were contemporary facts of violent confrontations.

In short, organisations with an annual turnover of at least AUD50m up to AUD100m (the exact amounts are yet to be announced) are likely to be required to report against mandatory criteria, and there is likely to be a central, Government - sponsored public repository of published modern slavery reports.

Examples of such cases are Chandler v Cape Plc [2011] EWHC 951 (QB)(liability of non-employer for exposure to asbestos), Kynixa Ltd v Hynes and others [2008] EWHC 1495 (QB)(claims arising from alleged breaches of restrictive covenants in employment contracts), Romantiek BVBA v Simms [2008] EWHC 3099 (QB) a claim alleging that a public official had committed the tort of misfeasance in public office when discharging a licensing function, OOO and others v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [20011] EWHC 1246 (QB)(claims by young foreign females that they had been trafficked into the UK by foreign nationals for the purpose of slavery and that officers of the Metropolitan Police Force breached their human rights in failing to investigate their complaints adequately or at all) and Mouncher and others v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2016] EWHC 1367 (QB)(claims by retired and serving police officers for false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecution against South Wales Police arising from an investigation by officers of that force into alleged criminal conduct on the part of the claimants during the course of an investigation into a notorious murder in South Wales.