Sentences with phrase «as slave states»

That cultural chasm grew deeper as the territories of Kansas and Nebraska were settled, sparking a struggle for their future as slave states or free states.

In 1845, the same year that Texas entered the union as a slave state, a group of Baptists in the South formed the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

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.

Not exact matches

Trump grouped former presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who fought to create the United States, together as «slave owners,» with southern leaders Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson.

King Leopold II «founded» the Congo Free State as «his own» private colony, and went on to make a huge fortune from it by forcing the Congolese into slave labor for ivory and rubber.

Fighters from Islamic State are using forced birth control on their sex slaves to avoid pregnancies that might halt the cycle of sexual abuse.The women and girls, some as young as 16, have described being force - fed pills.

«Mayat», a 17 - year - old Yazidi, is one of around 40 women being held as a sex slave by Islamic State (IS) militants.

Here goes; Back in the early days (what... 200 years ago) here in the United States, and in Europe, Blacks were held, against their will, as slaves, private property if you will.

Pretty strong language, but no stronger than the metaphor Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation used, in an op - ed article in The Washington Times, to «describe a bill designed to prevent corporations from rechartering abroad for tax purposes: Mitchell described this legislation as the «Dred Scott tax bill,» referring to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that required free states to return escaped slaves.

A reader who wishes to know, for instance, why Article 1, section 9, clause 1 prohibited Congress from making any alteration until 1808 in «the Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit» can turn to Volume III and find 28 contemporary documents on slavery and the slave trade.

The capitol building was built on the backs of slaves, and tomorrow a black man will stand on its steps and be sworn in as president of the United States.

You mean the morality that states I can beat my slave as much as I want as long as he survives for at least three days afterward?

They mingle as unequals, as when the United States and Brazil imported blacks as slaves, to the benefit of the stronger.

He detailed how some had been: «evicted from their homes and native lands, sold as slaves, killed, beheaded, crucified or burned alive, under the shameful and complicit silence of so many,» suggesting it was legitimate to try to stop an «unjust aggressor» like Islamic State.

Ellison and I regarded ourselves as being the heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefigurations of the most fundamental existential assumption underlying the human proposition as stated in the Declaration of Independence... Yes, it would be the likes of him... and me... the grandchildren of slaves freed by the Civil War, betrayed by Reconstruction... who would strive in our stories to provide American literature with representative anecdotes, definitive episodes, and mythic profiles that would add up to a truly comprehensive and universally appealing American epic.

The conference finally adopted several arguably peripheral constitutional amendments such as forbidding acquisition of new U.S. territory without approval by a majority of both slave - state and free - state senators, guaranteeing federal compensation for fugitive slaves when failure to return them was due to anti-slavery violence or intimidation, and restoring and perpetuating the Missouri Compromise line that once satisfied both regions but had been struck down by the Dred Scott decision.

In the Constitution, before it was amended, a black slave counted as 3/5 of a person in determining how many representatives a state would have in Congress.

Indeed, the text of the memorandum clearly reflects their humanitarian concern with the evils of the slave system They demanded the emancipation of all the slaves in Travancore as an act of «humanity and kindness» The petition stated:

As a result of CMS missionary interest in «runaway» slaves, and the CMS missionaries» continued pressure on the State government, Pulayas were protected from further violence.

It's a little too late for praying, it's Mrs.Clinton's call to be @ the helm; now, with her hubby Mr.Clinton as VP; and one of you out of all of you, need to tell Romney he's committed fraud, for leaving the Post of so - called gov.that theirs a 2 yr.interval that must be met; the same fo Obama; whom is worst off then Bush Jr.then for none of you to have no Allegiance to be nothing but commander of thieves, since April 4th, 1968 to presently; in the killing of Dr.King Jr.must still go under Oath to all you perjurers; that mustn't go unpunished to the array of charges I have stored up against each of yo on every job, on every public premise; that Obama didn't praywhen he lied to GOD ALMIGHTY in perjury; to have left the seat of sen.to jump to the office; knowing he hadn't a clue what to do; so he got Joe, which is Cheney all over; whom should of been out of public; and he knows that and all the fugitives, even in the Italian led court in DC; that will have to answer to what is -LCB- H.R. 7152 -RCB-; and why they let Olsen for Bush Jr.waste the American's People's time, not to mention all the lives that's been lost; for the tyrannies since 1968 to presently has cost; Vote I, Edward Baltimore; to confirm I; Governor of DC; as of 2/16/12; cause DC; has been a State, already; and all you slaves from State to State; need to snap out of your peonage which is prohibited by Federal Laws; on anybody!!!!!!!

Paul encourages slaves and women to submit to the head of the household as «unto the Lord,» making Christ the final authority to whom they are accountable, not the man or the State.

Ace - once you keep a man as a slave, you steal his freedom to coexist as a normal human being, so even if you inherit the slave, and keep him in that state, you are stealing the man.

As among the conglomerate people of the United States there is a common identification and a common sense of participation in the formative events of national history, so also the people of all of Israel's varied tribal backgrounds made the common confession of faith: «We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand... and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land which he swore to give to our fathers» (Deut.

The three - fifths clause provided bonus representation to Southern states based on their slave property, even as those states withheld all rights from slaves.

The 28 - year - old «spark plug» recently relocated from Boston back to her home state of Connecticut, where she works as an Operations Manager for a trade show management company by day and a slave to the stove by night.

«Given the historical reality of how many Africans arrived in the United States as slaves, this statement flies in the face of all accepted behaviour and practice,» AU spokeswoman Ebba Kalondo said on Friday.

«Mr. Speaker, if this Confederate battle flag prevailed in war 150 years ago I would not be standing here as a member of the United States Congress, I would be here as a slave,» Jeffries said in an impassioned floor speech.

Even private contracts are enforceable only to the extent allowed by laws; e.g. if I decide to gift my sons (or even myself) as slaves to my Church or Corporation then the state can void the contract and even prosecute me, and the Church or Corporation have no standing against me.

Specifically; «Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney praised Rajkumar as «an outstanding leader for her constituency,» citing her work to end the contemporary slave trade of human trafficking that has resulted in «the strongest state anti-trafficking legislation in the country.»

Slave trade in Eastern Europe gradually faded, as the control exercised by the emerging structure of European states became stronger.

The Iraqi girl's story has been released as part of a number of horrific accounts from girls and women kept as sex slaves by Islamic State and Boko Haram Two girls thought to be around seven or eight years old died in blasts in a crowded area near a market in Nigeria, killing one person and wounding 18

In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave - owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves.

A president given to endless talk with a preference for making his points via anecdotes (such as one about why a portrait of George Washington is on the wall of a particular toilet), Lincoln, a Republican, favored the adoption of the amendment to abolish slaves as did many in his own party, but to get the required two - thirds vote of the House of Representatives thereby sending it to the states for ratification, he had to bring in some Democrats.

Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson) and adapted for the screen by John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave sees an affluent black American — a violinist and family man born free in New York state - pitched into a waking nightmare when he's kidnapped by slavers in 1841.

But working on the film and spending time in Africa helped him realize that the African culture he thought was erased by bringing Africans to the United States as slaves was much more intact than he thought.

Based on a true story, «Free State of Jones» will star McConaughey as Newton Knight and Mbatha - Raw as Rachel, a slave whose relationship with Knight played a central part in his life and in his armed rebellion against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

That a 70 - year old director (last spotted making movies about chatty pigs and tap - dancing penguins) and his 18 - years - in - the - making developmental hell ride was able to bitchslap Hollywood's collective noggins to a state of fire and blood; that he nonchalantly subverted gender normativity with warrior - bitch Furiosa (Charlize Theron); that he afforded the oft misused Nicholas Hoult the supporting character of a lifetime as cancer - slave Nux and had him deliver 2015's best dialogue to shout at strangers («I live.

That's right, the root cause of the war between the states was a secret army of bloodsuckers who used slaves as its main food source.

Three countries in the Americas boost the largest African diaspora which started centuries ago as a result of the slave routes from Africa to the Americas, These are the United States, Brazil and then Colombia.

In drafting the US Constitution, Southern states wanted slaves counted as full persons to increase those states» congressional representation, but without giving them full rights.

Savage explained to him that if the South won the war, they intended to form a new Republic, the «Golden Circle,» which would form a powerful association of slave states as far north as the Mason - Dixon line and south to Mexico and Central America.

This novel shows both sides of the slavery issue, what both white and black abolitionists went through, as well as how slaves were treated in the northern states that had already outlawed slavery (Diane S).

It he'd been a more intelligent man he would have stopped at the armband phase and used state authority to force Jews into a permanent role as virtual slave labor.

Through the differences between James and Terence, or Caesar's experience of Virginia and Randall Island, or Cora's journey, it shows the way its conventions varied from state to state, or from master to master, and therefore the ultimate cruelty of traumatic disorientation, never knowing what to expect, as slaves were sold from one plantation to another, since there were no restraints on just how viciously an owner might punish or even torture a slave for how slight a transgression.What might be acceptable in one place isn't in another.

His sculptures themselves take on aspects of capitalism's inequities; they tend to be found or purchased objects, such as desks made by prisoners who are paid slave wages by state governments.

As part of their labor series, their documentation has covered the cruel conditions of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a former slave - breeding plantation named for the African nation from which «the most profitable» slaves, according to slave owners, were kidnapped.

Through his «map» paintings Bowling addresses issues of history and migration, both his own as a Commonwealth immigrant to the UK and latterly the United States, and broader mass movements of people, from colonial slaves through the «Middle Passage» from Africa to South America, to socio - economic motivated migration.

Lien Truong blends American and Asian imagery and technique to examine the cultural and political conditions embodied in America's founding and ongoing agrarian philosophy, and how this symbolizes the values of Manifest Destiny and the creation of America as a State formed by colonization, diverse immigrant groups and slaves.

As the American south exploded with violence and the civil rights movement got underway, he painted a series of works devoted to former slave - holding states like Alabama and Mississippi.

Just as a few states in the 1800s wanted their citizens to maintain the right to own slaves and formed a Confederacy that seceded from the United States, several governors are proclaiming their intent to defy the EPA: Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana (both declared 2016 Presidential candidates) plus Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, Mike Pence of Indiana, and Greg Abbott of states in the 1800s wanted their citizens to maintain the right to own slaves and formed a Confederacy that seceded from the United States, several governors are proclaiming their intent to defy the EPA: Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana (both declared 2016 Presidential candidates) plus Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, Mike Pence of Indiana, and Greg Abbott of States, several governors are proclaiming their intent to defy the EPA: Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana (both declared 2016 Presidential candidates) plus Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, Mike Pence of Indiana, and Greg Abbott of Texas.