Sentences with phrase «enslaved africans»

They worried that the latter would result if enslaved Africans learned about the existence of a successful slave rebellion that culminated in the emergence of a state outside of Africa, ruled by free Africans.

En route from Accra to Jamaica in 1781, 133 enslaved Africans were thrown from the vessel so the crew could claim insurance on the «goods» they were transporting.

These naturally flow from the ignorance that most Americans have about enslaved Africans as people and about slavery as an institution.

When the celebration ended, Kaplowitz visited and photographed the historic coastal towns of Elmina, Cape Coast, and Accra — the final holding places for enslaved Africans destined for the Americas.

The piece evokes the transatlantic journey that brought millions of enslaved Africans to the New World, and the violent ruptures that this action engendered.

That same year, Chase - Riboud won a commission from the U.S. General Services Administration to create the sculpture Africa Rising, commemorating the recently discovered African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan, a colonial - era cemetery for free and enslaved Africans.

In the late 1700s, enslaved Africans carved a gorge, more than 100 feet deep, into a solid limestone hillside with axes and other sharp hand tools.

This impressive, visually haunting picture story, consisting solely of black - and - white illustrations, chronicles the inhumane conditions endured by enslaved Africans on their voyage to America.

Capoeira originated in Brazil possibly among enslaved Africans who were brought to work the land for the Portuguese overlords.

From its beginnings, those considered non-whites ---- Native Americans and enslaved Africans ---- were not given any voice; their language practices were silenced as they were annihilated and excluded from education.

There are seven officials who could fundamentally change the condition of the descendants of enslaved Africans now living in Milwaukee.

No matter where you go, traditional districts are failing the descendants of enslaved Africans.

Gary Becker, the Nobel Prize - winning conservative economist, wrote The Economics of Discrimination in 1957, and laid out the costs of racism to the descendents of enslaved Africans and other residents of the United States.

Excerpts from Slave Narratives This wonderful resource includes more than 40 narratives including a European slave trader describing a shipboard revolt by enslaved Africans (1700); a doctor describing conditions on an English slaver (1788); Venture Smith relating the story of his kidnapping at age six (1798); a woman learning that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869); and a slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1789).

The children, playing on their own, find a book about enslaved Africans and begin to play master and slave.

Not every film addressing the persecution of enslaved Africans and their descendants need be as chastening as 12 Years a Slave, but Tarantino's satires are so geared to delivering their elaborately contrived comic pay - offs they dilute their social messages.

This movie chronicles the journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake their captor's ship and attempt to return to their beloved homeland.

Analyzing the genomes of more enslaved Africans «and [finding] out where they came from... can tell us more about these people's identities and how they transformed over the centuries that followed,» he says.

Genetic analyses could help reconstruct the origins of enslaved Africans, whom were shipped from ports like this one, in Ghana, to Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

And even this broad ancestral difference underlines something important about enslaved Africans, according to Schroeder: They lived alongside other Africans who spoke different languages and came from different cultural groups.

Of the five variants of the sickle - cell trait, four appear to have originated in Africa and spread through trade routes or the transport of enslaved Africans.

Candomblé, a religion brought to Brazil by enslaved Africans, has been under attack in Brazil with at least eight temples targeted in Rio last...

Christianity is what the early Americans preached as they slaughtered Native Indians, enslaved Africans, and colonized North America.

Cone blended the racial pride of the black power movement with an emphasis on social justice that had been a part of the black church since enslaved Africans first read the Bible.

Indeed, and once you've bought into that «Fall Of Man» crap it's a short, easy step to oppressing Jews as Christkillers and enslaving Africans as Children of Ham.

They didn't enslave Africans because of strong emotions about Africans, but because they wanted cheap labor, and they didn't care about what happened to the people they enslaved.

We had to think up reasons why enslaving Africans was for the common good.

We will celebrate the progress that was purchased with great sacrifice and struggle, making it possible for a country that once enslaved African - Americans to now be governed by an African - American.

So kidnapping and enslaving African Americans and treating them like crap is based on good Christian values too?

Yes, they were Christian... and they only slaughtered the native peoples, enslaved african americans and rammed their religion down everyone's throat.

, Enslaving africans, Witch Hunts, Inquisition... and this is all from memory from my history class (yes i took a few here and there).

Newton Knight did not defect to the Union Army but took arms against other Southern soldiers together with a small army of both white radicals and enslaved African - Americans.

Her next film was the critically - acclaimed Belle starring Gugu Mbatha - Raw as Dido Elizabeth Belle, an illegitimate mixed - race daughter of an enslaved African woman and a British navy captain, who placed the girl with his uncle Lord Mansfield in late 18th - century London to be raised as a free lady.

How do you think high - society Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries rationalized the sexual exploitation of enslaved African American women?

Here, working in cut steel, Walker includes stereotypical Civil War imagery of the South — a stately plantation mansion, small huts, enslaved African Americans, Confederate soldiers, and Southern belles.

Not exact matches

The Church got around this by declaring that Africans were «not fully human» and therefore incapable of becoming Christians and available to be purchased and eventually enslaved.

African governments sometimes claim that they shed colonialism only to find, 30 years later, that they were enslaved by economic neocolonialism.

I also believe that our failure to do this has bred deep divisions within the church and has led to Christianity playing a paramount role in legitimating and exacerbating racial injustice from our nation's origin — colonizing Native Americans, enslaving Diasporic Africans — to our present - day crises of immigration and mass incarceration.

Funny how an African American, who just fifty years ago would have ridden on the back of the bus to his interview, is using the same Bible used to enslave his ancestors, to relegate those different from himself to a second class citizen status.

The treatment of people outside Christianity was even worse, such as our treatment of «pagans» who refused to convert to Christianity after it became the official religion of the Roman Empire, or the Jews during most of Christian history, or other religious groups in Germany and Great Britain who were slaughtered and enslaved by invading Christian armies, or the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans by imperialistic Christian settlers of the «New World.»

Black theology has its deepest rootage in the experience of enslaved and oppressed Africans, and in their appropriation of the witness of scripture; but not in the philosophical and theological traditions of the Western academy and in its medieval and Greek forebears.

First, Wilberforce did not abolish the West African slave trade because he came to a different view from Paul, but because he held the same view as Paul (not least as expressed in 1 Timothy 1:10, which forbids enslaving people), a point which is clear from his writings.

But the most obvious candidate for reparations, as James Forman had foreseen in 1969, would be the descendants of the African - Americans who, from 1619 until 1865, had been legally enslaved in the United States.

African American enslaved Christians bore witness to the gospel despite the threat of punishment at the hands of fellow Christians.

Christians came to America murdered Native Americans and stole their land, then they kidnapped African Americans and enslaved them, they also treated women like they were property while denying them their civil rights.

Tribal African cultures in the 17th century enslaved each other; so that made the inst.tution of slavery OK?

India (one of the bloodiest conquests in human history — with HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS enslaved); 120 million from the African slave trade, Saharan / East coast edition... think the Islamisation and genocide that occurred recently in Sudan spread over a millenium (and they castrated the men).

From almost the beginning of the Portuguese voyages Africans were enslaved and sent to Europe.

god was at the same place when Hiroshima and Nakasaki were nuked, Dresden was firebombed, villages in Vietnam were burned to the ground with napalm, all those tortures and murders happened during the dark ages, taliban slaughtered people at will, tens of millions of native Americans were exterminated, millions of Africans were enslaved or killed, Saddam gassed his people and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of them, Assad of Syria killing...

Being a wife or mother in an intact family and doing what women were expected to do — caring for «home and hearth» — was not possible for enslaved women, although they were able to accomplish that and more in African societies.