Sentences with phrase «arguments against slavery»

After that, there were a few instances when popes condemned the Atlantic slave trade for its cruelties; and in the 18th and 19th centuries, Protestant abolitionists in England and America produced theological arguments against slavery merely as such.

for in atlas and in other rand works she puts forth the most eloquent and reasoned arguments against slavery ever written.

During this time period, only a few Quakers made biblical arguments against slavery.

As a legal argument against slavery, Lincoln admits, the proclamation was built on quicksand.

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).

[Perhaps the strongest argument against Piper's hermeneutical approach to the New Testament household codes is the fact that the very same hermeneutic has been applied to these passages to justify slavery.

The Civil War as Theological Crisis by Mark Noll: This book is a stunning eye - opener that details the religious - based arguments for and against slavery in the buildup to the U.S. Civil War.

For the British, it was the actual experience of slavery in some of its most brutal forms in the West Indies that precipitated thinking hard about slavery, which then precipitated biblical and theological arguments against it, which then led to political action.»

A few misleading accusations against the Bible» on slavery or women's rights, for example» are enough to cause modern conservatives to abandon Biblical arguments altogether.

This, of course, is where the notion of group identity enters into the reparations argument, since the crime of slavery — by the logic of modern reparations — was committed, not against individuals, but against a group (African - Americans) and therefore reparations can be paid to a group (African - American descendants).

Repetition of this facile argument is key, down to a speech given here by a pre-Civil War Republican: «We, the Republicans, are against slavery, and the Democrats are for slavery.»

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