Sentences with phrase «century slaver»
Today's Rhodes Must Fall march in Oxford will pass the statue of the Victorian colonialist in Oriel College, before stopping off at All Souls College's Codrington library, named after a 17th - century slaver, and the Old Indian Institute building, where Brits trained the Indian civil service.
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He started sprinting as a boy in the parish of Trelawny, tucked deep in Jamaica's Cockpit Country, a sugar - farming area that was the former stronghold of the Maroons, Jamaica's 18th century freedom fighters who resisted British slavers.
And the other anniversary is of 1978 — the election of Pope St. John Paul, the first non-Italian Pope in centuries, the first Slav Pope, and the beginning of a more confident and authentic affirmation of what Vatican II really taught.
When Constantine - Cyril and Methodius came as Christian missionaries to the Slavs in the ninth century, they translated not only the Bible but the Eastern Orthodox liturgy into Slavonic.
A monument to the importance of that achievement for the history of the Slavs is the very alphabet in which most Slavs write, which is called Cyrillic, in honor of Saint Cyril, the ninth - century «apostle to the Slavs,» who, with his brother Methodius, is traditionally given credit for having invented it... Not only among the Slavs in the ninth century, but also among the other so - called heathen in the 19th century, the two fundamental elements of missionary culture for more than a millennium have therefore been the translation of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, and education in the missionary schools.
In its last centuries as capital of the Byzantine Empire, it was not only the holy city of the Orthodox world, dedicated to the Mother of God, but also a cosmopolitan trading centre, with Venetian, Genoese, Muslim, Jewish, Slav and Avar inhabitants.
The Slavs, known here as the Wends, were the successors of the invading barbarians from many centuries previously, and were now there farming on the east side of the Elbe — and a surviving Wend community still holds together in twentieth - century East Germany.
Melkorka, a tenth - century Irish princess, must adapt to a harsh new life after she is stolen from her home by Russian slavers.
Her installation is called Typhoon Coming On, and is an uneasy 21st - century remake of Turner's 1840 masterpiece, often known simply as Slave Ship, but called by him Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On.