Sentences with phrase «banning slavery»

Specifically, his attempts to get the 13th Amendment, banning slavery, passed by the House Of Representatives.

Several years later, his close friend William Pitt (Benedict Cumberbatch) became prime minister, and together they made a bold plan to introduce a bill banning slavery before the English legislature.

Let me know when your god is at least on record as unequivocally banning slavery and infant murder.

He did not suggest constitutional amendments banning slavery throughout the country.

The notorious Dred Scott decision (1837) asserted that because slaves were their masters» property Congress could not ban slavery anywhere in the United States — a holding that ignored the Framers» compromise of tolerating slavery temporarily but allowing eventual measures against it.

but regardless, in your example blacks have been misrepresented as subhuman monkeys and oppressed and enslaved because of this misrepresentation for hundreds of year so they have a legit grievance (Saudi Arabia banned slavery only in the 1970s)-- no one is misrepresenting Mohammad as someone he was not and the Mulsims were not enslaved for their beliefs (they actually claim they are Alla's slaves and proud anyways)

Republicans banned slavery.

Although the power of Congress to forbid slavery in federal territories was well - established, Sandford argued that slaves were private property of the sort protected by the Constitution against deprivation without due process of law, and that therefore Congress lacked any constitutional authority to ban slavery in the territories.

While there were those who wanted to ban slavery, the slave holding states refused to accept the constitution unless it were left legal.

Why would an overwhelmingly Christian country, such as France or the USA, ban slavery?

That scene sets the stage for the plot of the film, which surprisingly, takes place over a very concentrated point in time — only a month, really — when the Civil War was limping to an end, and Lincoln was rushing to pass the 13th Amendment to ban slavery.

You obviously have to ban slavery.

Not exact matches

Although William Wilberforce won a great victory in banning «official» slavery in the UK, sadly the problem is getting worse.

It is the ultimate irony to listen to black / hispanic religious leaders use «the Bible» to justify discrimination, the same book that was used to justify slavery and ban intraracial marriage.

If god did not condone slavery, he would have banned it the way he banned many other activities.

With slavery a thing of the past, with segregation banned, with the right to vote for everyone, what is the problem?

One of these men owned slaves, another created laws to regulate - but not ban - slavery.

It was modeled after England's ban on slavery in the 1830's..

It should be banned like slavery or communism or fascism.

Several celebrities have previously backed the call to ban horse carriages, including Russell Simmons — who, in speaking out against the carriages, compared animal abuse to slavery and Holocaust — and Alan Cumming.

Her toughest competitor in the March 6 primary is former federal prosecutor Jay Hulings, who's close to Rep. Joaquin CastroJoaquin CastroBlack, Hispanic lawmakers hammer Amazon directors» opposition to diversity rule Texas charter school reinstates teacher who asked students to list positive aspects of slavery NRA criticized for hosting event where guns are banned due to Pence appearance MORE (D - Texas) and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro.

The 13th Amendment, which banned legalized slavery in America, went into effect 150 years ago this month.

Meanwhile, heeding Minto's advice to «do as much good as we can» while governing Java, Raffles reformed the colonial administration of the island, limiting the powers of the great landowners over their tenants and ameliorating the worst abuses of slavery while banning the importation of slaves under fourteen years of age.

They never think about the way how their bananas or other exotic fruit was grown — through destruction of rainforest, slavery of poor local people who have to splash it with pesticides banned in the western world, transported across the whole planet just for the sake of vegeposers who want exotic food.

Right up until the abolition of slavery in Great Britain in the 19th century, pretty much all of the 300 companies facilitating the slave trade fought against a ban on the grounds that the economy would collapse.

Higgins gives the example of the banning of slavery by the British 200 years ago — one which Dr James Hansen has used of late as well, if in the context of greenhouse gases.

The 1865 ban on slavery is the basis for a lawsuit against SeaWorld, filed by PETA on the behalf of five orca whales which, the animal rights group argues, are enslaved for commercial gain by the marine park.

More recently, PETA has moved on to suing SeaWorld because, it claims, the killer whales that perform at SeaWorld are being held as slaves in violation of the 13th Amendment's ban on slavery.