Sentences with phrase «famous abolitionist»
Now, at only 34, he was America's most famous abolitionist orator.
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As part of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 — named for the famous British Christian abolitionist responsible for the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 — Congress passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA).
In it, Kidd takes the bare facts surrounding Charleston's famous (and infamous) 19th century abolitionist / emancipist sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and, as she puts it, grafts fiction onto truth to weave a fascinating and inspirational account of early abolitionism in America.
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.
The work depicts David Walker, an African - American abolitionist famous for the pamphlet «Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World» (1829), which urged slaves to revolt and fight for their freedom.
Ligon's paintings incorporate phrases and text from diverse sources from famous 19th - century abolitionist Sojourner Truth to the stand - up comedian, Richard Pryor.