Sentences with phrase «by abolitionists»

New York About Blog Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine, serving as a critical, independent voice in American journalism.

But they also analyze strategies of change used by abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth to learn how they, too, can become agents of change.

[Noll also points to arguments put forth by some abolitionists that said that while the Bible never condemns slavery per se, it does condemn the kind of slavery practiced in the American South.

More than half of all defenses of slavery were written by pastors who cited Scripture to make their case, and Noll immerses the reader in primary sources to unpack and understand those defenses as well as the counter-arguments made by abolitionists.

Eleven prisoners died of cancer from 2010 through 2013, and six others have been diagnosed with cancer at the State Correctional Institution Fayette, said the report, released by the Abolitionist Law Center, a public interest law firm based in Pittsburgh, and the Human Rights Coalition, a national prison reform group.

Set during the Kansas - Missouri border war, the film follows Jake (Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull (Skeet Ulrich), who join the Confederate - sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack Bull's father is killed by abolitionist Jayhawkers, and find an unusual ally in Holt (Jeffrey Wright), who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave.

Urged on by the abolitionist movement, the crusading MP, (played by an engaging but one - note Ioan Gruffudd) used his oratorical gifts to win a vote in the Commons.

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Were Catholics who joined the abolitionist movement also sinning, by claiming that the institution was evil prematurely, before the popes got around to it?

As abolitionist Gerrit Smith put it, «the religion taught by Jesus is not a letter but a life.»

But the impassioned, Bible - based rhetoric delivered by both the abolitionists and those who opposed them sure does sound familiar.

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

A similar testimony is provided by another African - American abolitionist — William Wells Brown (1814 - 1884).

My first contact with prison abolitionists was at a two - day «Alternatives to Prison» seminar where the leadership was provided by Fay Honey Knopp and Jane Kathryn Vella of the Prison Research Education Action Project (PREAP).

«I became convinced after my study of the subject in Abolitionists Abroad,» says Sanneh, «that 18th - century evangelical Christianity represented a social revolution of enormous import for the New World and for Africa by offering outcasts, slaves and captives a moral perspective on their oppression and exclusion....

By this is Elliot suggesting, for example, that the Abolitionist movement was un-Christian?

And to accept the arguments of the abolitionist, our great - great - grandparents had to see beyond the «plain meaning» of proof texts like Ephesians 6:1 - 5, Colossians 3:18 - 25; 4:1, and I Timothy 6:1 - 2 and instead be compelled by the general sweep of Scripture toward justice and freedom.

The abolitionist movement that finally eliminated slavery was largely a religious movement, animated by the religious belief that all men are equal in the eyes of God.

Religion News Service: PBS series depicts American abolitionists as fired by faith As the nation marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, PBS premieres «The Abolitionists,» a three - part series, on Tuesabolitionists as fired by faith As the nation marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, PBS premieres «The Abolitionists,» a three - part series, on TuesAbolitionists,» a three - part series, on Tuesday (Jan. 8).

By 1836 a large number of Methodist pastors and people were convinced abolitionists.

Seven posters citing the words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, accompanied by a jersey of former NFL star Colin Kaepernick, were neatly arranged outside Syracuse City Hall on East Washington Street.

Trump marked the start of African - American History Mark by once again criticizing the media for covering him unfairly while also praising famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass as «somebody who has done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more.»

Dwarfed by the enormity of what it means to illustrate, the diffuse Amistad divides its energies among many concerns: the pain and strangeness of the captives» experience, the Presidential election in which they become a factor, the stirrings of civil war, and the great many bewhiskered abolitionists and legal representatives who argue about their fate.

This segment of the series speaks about the efforts by Northern Abolitionists to eliminate slavery prior to

Liev will play radical abolitionist John Brown, who unites with Henry «Onion» Shackleford, a young slave played by Jaden Smith.

On film, Costabile memorably portrayed Republican abolitionist James Ashley for Steven Spielberg in LINCOLN, written by Tony Kushner.

Some abolitionist works like «Uncle Tom's Cabin» could paint slavery as a form of captivity, but the canonical captives of antebellum American literature were white women kidnapped by Indians, who after the Civil War were often replaced by freed slaves as objects of superstitious terror.

In the film, the passage of the amendment is guided by William Seward (David Strathairn), his secretary of state, and by Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones), the most powerful abolitionist in the House.

A team of men, led by the slimy W.N. Bilbo (James Spader) is tasked by Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) with essentially buying the votes of lame - duck Democrats, while abolitionist firebrand Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones, in a performance just as central and Oscar - worthy as Day - Lewis») coordinates backroom deals within his own party.

His rescue was eventually triggered by a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt).

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.

The star is surrounded by a corking cast, which includes James Spader as a roguish lobbyist doing the president's dirty work in buying votes, David Strathairn as secretary of state William H Seward (one of that team of rivals) and Jared Harris as Ulysses S Grant; Tommy Lee Jones (pictured below) is a typically cantankerous hoot as Thaddeus Stevens, the radical abolitionist who sacrifices his ambitions for equality to Lincoln's more pragmatic recognition that «freedom comes first».

The progressive, abolitionist Republicans, guided by Thaddeus Stevens (a scene - stealing Tommy Lee Jones), see it as the first step toward true equality for an entire race.

Taken into custody and tried for piracy and murder, the «Amistad Africans» gain the support of abolitionists and lawyers led by freed man Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman), stuffy Reaction Shot (Stellan Skarsgård), and earnest do - gooder Roger Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey).

Film Review by Kam Williams Civil War Saga Chronicles Exploits of Confederate Soldier - Turned - Slave Revolt Leader While the slave raids led by Nat Turner and John Brown have been well documented in the annals of American history, the relatively - successful exploits of another notorious abolitionist insurrectionist have somehow slipped through the cracks.

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.

With our study of slavery, we look at the methods used by and character traits of antebellum abolitionists such as Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass and compare their work with that of non-governmental organizations such as Free the Slaves and Anti-Slavery International.

The selection of Tubman, abolitionist and known for her amazing work of bringing slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, was made this week by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.

Now, a new biography, I Was Born a Slave: The Story of Harriet Jacobs (Millbrook Press), written by Jennifer Fleischner and illustrated by Melanie Reim, gives students a look at slavery from the perspective of a woman who not only survived it but also went on to help and support others in the abolitionist movement.

The Liberty Bell was known as the «Independence Bell» or the «Old Yankee's Bell» until 1837, when it was adopted by the American Anti-Slavery Society as a symbol of the abolitionist movement.

This monumental, fictionalized version of the life of the mythic abolitionist John Brown is told by his son Owen, who survives the raid at Harpers Ferry with equal measures of anger and guilt.

I'm awed by her ability to take such different subjects — an abolitionist in the Civil War (March), a Wampanoag Indian in early America (Caleb's Crossing), a maid in plague - ridden England (Year of Wonders)-- and bring them vividly to life.

In the service of economy, student texts on Civil War history usually sum up John Brown's famous October 16, 1859, abolitionist raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry by noting that Robert E. Lee, then a colonel commanding a modest squad of U.S. soldiers, was responsible for bringing Brown and his associates to bay.

When the British abolitionists come looking for «adventurers» to create a new colony in Sierra Leone, Aminata assists in moving 1,200 Nova Scotians to Africa and aiding the abolitionist cause by revealing the realities of slavery to the British public.

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004) In 1956, Reverend John Ames writes a letter to his son — about his father, a pacifist preacher, and his grandfather, a minster who fought in the Civil War as an abolitionist.

She touches on the North's mixed record of high idealism, negligence and outright cruelty regarding the contraband (slaves who came within Union lines) and vividly illustrates the moral dilemma faced in war by pacifists who were also ardent abolitionists.

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.

The «American Colonization Society» was supported by two very different groups: abolitionists who wanted to free African slaves and their descendants and «repatriate» them, and slave owners who feared free people of color and wanted to expel them from America.

Three Belpré Author Honor Books were named: «The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist,» written by Margarita Engle and published by Harcourt, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company; «The Living,» written by Matt de la Peña and published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company; and «Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale,» written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS.

This report examines the emergence of an organized abolitionist movement in Britain by 1787 and assesses how important this social movement was in achieving the passage of abolitionist legislation in 1807.

'' Join us for the unveiling of the landmark artwork, «Symphony in DC Major,» commissioned by City Market at O and created by renowned sculptor and third - generation Washingtonian, Zachary Oxman, The massive three - part sculpture, occupying an entire city block, pays tribute to Shaw's storied history, portraying prolific composer, jazz musician, and DC native Edward «Duke» Ellington; neighborhood namesake and abolitionist Union Army Colonel Robert Gould Shaw; and renowned American Expressionist painter and Shaw Junior High School art teacher, Alma Thomas.