Sentences with phrase «for abolitionists»

Is this announcement to be seen as a cause of optimism for the abolitionists in England and Wales?

Do you want them to develop empathy for the characters in a novel or for abolitionists during the Civil War?

Inside an old gathering place for abolitionists, we'd read a speech Frederick Douglass once gave there.

Jonathan Blanchard spoke for the abolitionist position, Nathan L. Rice for the position that while the Bible pointed toward the eventual, voluntary elimination of slavery,...

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Whether implying a 19th century abolitionist was alive or ignoring a handshake from the German Chancellor, Trump provided plenty of fodder for ridicule from his online critics and amusement from his supporters.

The church wasn't abolitionist, but believed that slave holders should free their slaves but should receive compensation for the relinquishment.

The first Christian abolitionists were a tiny minority, fighting a difficult battle against Christian slavery supporters who could quote twice as much scripture for their position, and still could.

As far as «advocacy for slavery» goes, you might want to check out who the first abolitionist were, especially in Britain and what they gave up to see the ending of slavery.

The abolitionists didn't point to their bibles for support; the slave owners did.

For example, William Wilberforce (who is largely responsible for bringing the abolitionist movement to bear in the English speaking world) fought & successfully changed the British Empire's laws based on his very * conservative * biblical understandiFor example, William Wilberforce (who is largely responsible for bringing the abolitionist movement to bear in the English speaking world) fought & successfully changed the British Empire's laws based on his very * conservative * biblical understandifor bringing the abolitionist movement to bear in the English speaking world) fought & successfully changed the British Empire's laws based on his very * conservative * biblical understanding.

As you can see, Christians advocating for the preservation of slavery did not characterize their abolitionist opponents as simply disagreeing with them on the interpretation of the biblical text, but instead tended to accuse them of not taking the Bible seriously at all.

Noll explains that abolitionists had a far more challenging task, for they had to appeal instead to the «broad sweep of Scripture» and to generalities regarding justice, love, and common humanity.

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.»

For one thing, we aimed to show that, contrary to the abolitionist claim that the system is arbitrary, in fact it is only the very worst of the worst who are executed in the U.S. today.

The young Holmes was a zealous abolitionist, but he lost enthusiasm for this and all other causes during the Civil War, where he was wounded three times and saw comrades slain in the bloodiest battles.

Think of Galileo, the abolitionists, or those that worked for women's equality.

Thus, for the African newly chained to the deck of a ship anchored at a West African harbor, the meaning of liberation and the character of the struggle are very different from that of the African - American who, three generations later, like Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown, must consider how best to conduct an abolitionist campaign.

«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....

Is it a concern for the moral progress of the human race, as with the Abolitionists?

Republican religion did much to lay the historical groundwork for the tradition of religious liberty and limited separation of church and state, as it did to nurture creative minorities like the abolitionists, social gospelers, and civil - rights protesters.

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

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The group was also responsible for arranging the New England tour of the most prominent feminist abolitionists of the era, Sarah and Angelina Grimke.

After that, there were a few instances when popes condemned the Atlantic slave trade for its cruelties; and in the 18th and 19th centuries, Protestant abolitionists in England and America produced theological arguments against slavery merely as such.

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).

The reaction is hardly a new one: abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier wrote to Sarah and Angelina Grimke, early American abolitionists and advocates of women's rights, about their concern for women: «Is it not forgetting the great and dreadful wrongs of the slave in a selfish crusade against some paltry grievance of [your] own?»

American feminism of the 19th century was born of the abolitionist movement, and of equal significance with Friedan's book as impetus for the current women's movement was the experience of women in the civil rights and antiwar protests of the «60s.

Wesley, Wilberforce and Charles Finney's evangelical abolitionists stood solidly in the biblical tradition in their search for justice for the poor and oppressed of their time.

It will take decades — if God in his grace restrains the principalities and powers that seek nuclear war — for the new abolitionists to persuade militaristic America that preparation for nuclear holocaust, like slavery, is an affront to the Creator.

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was explicitly abolitionist at its founding, and much early literature of the denomination has recently come back into print for «black studies» programs.

Frederick Douglass, the former slave turned abolitionist leader, gave the commencement address himself for the class of 1894.

The book's gala collection of newspaper clippings, photographs and tributes provides a wealth of material for teaching blocks on 19th century U.S. literature, history, and the Abolitionist Movement.

Encouraged to «write something» in time for the 2007 Bicentennial, Pam compiled and published Celebrating Whittier, New England's Quaker Poet and Abolitionist: America's 1907 Centennial.

Ther e are abolitionists who feel punishment for young people is wrong in all instances.

For example many Republicans in history would also consider themselves: classical liberals, radical abolitionists, populists, hawks, or religious progressives.

Consequently, in order to provide greater protection for animals, Richard Martin, together with the Reverend Arthur Broome and fellow MP and slave trade abolitionist William Wilberforce, founded the world's first animal welfare charity, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), in a London coffee shop in 1824.

It must be said that campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty has a certain allure for activists due to the clear - cut distinction between retentionist and abolitionist states, as well as the uplifting transition from one to the other.

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.»

It remained popular target for Labour activists for much of the 20th century, though the party's abolitionist zeal waned with the rise of New Labour.

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman's Auburn home is one step closer to becoming a national park and it could mean a makeover for the property.

Lawmakers in Washington are pushing for the establishment of a Harriet Tubman National Park in Auburn, where the abolitionist lived and died.

Before the Civil War, for example, abolitionists were active in Albany.

Indeed, it could be argued that the rapid expansion of communication technologies in the decades leading up to the war, which made it easier for reformers to get their arguments out, gave abolitionists a far greater role in the sectional conflict than their numbers would suggest.

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

The time is 1858, three years before the Civil War, and the abolitionist - minded Schultz promises freedom to Django — and a share of the bounty — in exchange for his aid.

The title of First Reformed, Paul Schrader's best film in a very long time, refers to an old abolitionist church in upstate New York, a metaphor for Christianity's neglected values.

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.

The film doesn't assume a polemical position regarding the death penalty — either for or against — though in the context of Singaporean authoritarianism it probably would have been banned, with writer - director Boo Junfeng imprisoned, had it taken an explicitly abolitionist stance.

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.