Sentences with phrase «black abolitionists»

This novel shows both sides of the slavery issue, what both white and black abolitionists went through as well as how blacks were treated in the Northern states that had already outlawed slavery.

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).

Such an interpretation of revelation has roots in nineteenth - century black abolitionist and feminist Sojourner Truth.

Not exact matches

You sound just like the guys who said that MLK and the abolitionists were just liberals who were twisting what the Bible actually said about blacks.

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was explicitly abolitionist at its founding, and much early literature of the denomination has recently come back into print for «black studies» programs.

Explore the Black Spaces Matter exhibition to take in the aesthetics and architectonics of an abolitionist neighborhood (Boston)

-- A black - and - white photo of Frederick Douglass, a leader of the abolitionist movement and a Rochester resident.

Ulster County's own Sojourner Truth — former slave, abolitionist, preacher and advocate of women's rights — was the first black woman to go to court against a white man and win.

The candidate alluded several times last night to the GOP's 19th Century anti-slavery roots and its ties to abolitionist Frederick Douglass — a man Trump appeared to think was still alive while speaking at a Black History Month event in February.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Ejiofor is Solomon Northrup, a free black man from upstate New York who is abducted and sold into slavery before finally meeting up with a Canadian abolitionist who will change his life.

In congressional debate pro-slavery Democrat Fernando Wood declaims that to make blacks equal to white men is «an insult to natural law» — to which the powerful, acid - tongued Republican abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, played by a well - cast Tommy Lee Jones, retorts, «Slavery is the only insult to natural law, you fatuous nincompoop.

Season 3 sees Will Ferrell, an executive producer, playing children's author Roald Dahl during his days as a British spy; Josh Hartnett as Hollywood icon Clark Gable; Oscar winner Octavia Spencer as abolitionist Harriet Tubman; Topher Grace as board game mogul Milton Bradley; Michael Cera as the leader of the New York newsboy strike of 1899; Dennis Quaid and Sam Rockwell as mobsters Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel; Jack Black as Los Angeles water system architect William Mulholland.

A complete teachers resource that enables teachers worldwide to teach the Transatlantic Slave Trade with sensitivity, empathy and the role played by black and white abolitionists to end the Slave Trade.

Pence's snubbing of black people happened on the same day President Donald Trump talked as if Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, writer and civil rights leader, were still alive (he died in 1895).

Use the interactive magnet board to place the vocabulary words associated with Black History Month in alphabetical order - Tubman, Rice, King, Parks, civil rights, heritage, slavery, abolitionist, advocate, Powell, equality and prejudice.

In the late 18th century, British abolitionists and the Sierra Leone Company founded Freetown as a home for Black Britons * and in 1808 the country became the...

It's 1863, and Frederick Douglass, the well - known writer, speaker, abolitionist, and former slave, is the only black man waiting in the crowded room outside Lincoln's office in hopes of meeting the president.

In the late 18th century, British abolitionists and the Sierra Leone Company founded Freetown as a home for Black Britons * and in 1808 the country became the first British colony in Africa.

In the late 18th century, British abolitionists and the Sierra Leone Company founded Freetown as a home for Black Britons * and in 1808 the country became the first British colony in Africa; by 1821 Freetown was the seat of government for all British colonies in West Africa.

In two works on view, Cyrus investigates the relationship between individuals and cultures at large, drawing from an archive of African - American political and cultural history that includes abolitionist John Brown, the Black Panthers, and Blaxploitation films.

From the earliest Quaker abolitionist John Woolman in the 1700s to Barrack Obama in 2008 leads a thread of American thought that says that a black man or woman is equal under God and the law, and could even be President of the United States.