Sentences with phrase «debates over slavery»

From the colonial era, through the debates over slavery, immigration and temperance, to current social movements such as those...

She deftly summarizes the emergence of New York as the nation's economic capital, the history of debates over slavery, the emergence of the women's suffrage movement, and countless other currents, all of which shaped the 19th - century U.S. and the course of Beecher's life.

When southern Baptists from Alabama and Georgia petitioned to have slaveholders appointed as convention missionaries in 1844, the convention refused to consider them, arguing that doing so would force them to take a side in the debate over slavery.

The momentous schism between the «Southern» and «Northern» Baptists occurred in 1845 amid the growing debate over slavery and related issues.

Whichever scholar has the better argument, they agree that the decision focused the debate over slavery and introduced into the already heady brew of issues involved in that debate the question of the scope of judicial power under the Constitution.

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Strong feelings also attend the scholarly debate over the role of Christianity in the abolition of slavery.

He claims that the Revolution led to an upsurge of biblicism, but explains that only in the case of debates over colonial bishops and slavery did colonists actually draw directly upon the teaching authority of Scripture.

Fighting for Florida and beyond, Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders tangled in an intense debate last night over who's the true friend of American Hispanics, trading accusations over guest worker programs «akin to slavery» and the embracing of «vigilantes» against immigrants.

But Spielberg's depiction of the state of affairs on the floor of Congress during debates over the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, is another shot of cold water to the face.

So, the events of the past few years — among them the violence of white supremacists in Charlottesville, the church shootings in Charleston, the national debate over Confederate flags and memorials — certainly shaped the book, especially as they emphasize the extent to which the history of our country is built around the armature of slavery and the Civil War, and how far we still are from putting those issues behind us.