Sentences with phrase «from abolitionists»

Every movement to make America more fully realize its professed values has grown out of some form of public theology, from the abolitionists to the social gospel and the early socialist party to the civil rights movement under Martin Luther King and the farm workers» movement under Caesar Chavez.

@isdjr72: Sorry, but the Southern Baptist Convention was formed when pro-slavery Baptists in the South split from abolitionists in the North.

Skinner himself comes from abolitionist stock.

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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.

3From Lucille Schulberg Warner's From Slave to Abolitionist: The Life of William Wells Brown, New York: Dial Press.

Douglass (1817 - 1895) was an African American Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion) clergyman who was born into slavery and who escaped from slavery and joined the abolitionists» struggle as an internationally known orator, fund raiser, newspaper publisher, and editor.

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 think there was a time that many believed their faith drove them to seek justice - abolitionists, civil rights leader, healthcare, etc. but now it just seems many want to isolate themselves from the «others» who won't «turn to Christ» and deny them rights in the name of religious liberty.

Two groups — the abolitionist Wesleyan Methodists (1843) and the ethically «rigorist» Free Methodists (1860)-- split from Methodism and adopted «perfectionist» planks.

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.

Among those receiving degrees from the University of Rochester this weekend will be the late abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

As a mayoral candidate, de Blasio received a significant amount of money from horse carriage abolitionists.

Eleven prisoners died of cancer from 2010 through 2013, and six others have been diagnosed with cancer at the State Correctional Institution Fayette, said the report, released by the Abolitionist Law Center, a public interest law firm based in Pittsburgh, and the Human Rights Coalition, a national prison reform group.

The sculpture depicts a young slave, who recently ran away from the slaveholding South, with her child, telling her story to three men, William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry Ward Beecher, all noted abolitionists.

Lincoln relies on Republican Party founder Francis Preston Blair's (Hal Holbrook) support to wrangle votes from border - state Republicans, and Republican Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) becomes the face of the abolitionist push.

He knows that a cessation of the fighting will likely rob the abolitionist cause of much of the support it has gained from those who view an amendment to the Constitution as the quickest way force the South to surrender.

Ejiofor is Solomon Northrup, a free black man from upstate New York who is abducted and sold into slavery before finally meeting up with a Canadian abolitionist who will change his life.

A couple of abolitionists (Morgan Freeman and Stellan Skarsgård) believing the slaves are entitled to their freedom team up with Roger S. Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey), an unrefined young attorney approaching the case from a legal rather than moral standpoint.

Almost unheard in the background of 12 Years a Slave was the Christian - driven abolitionist movement that would, within a decade of Northup's book (he disappears from history, perhaps to Canada), plunge the United States into a four - year civil war whose savagery matched 1914 - 18, though no one realised until too late.

Apart from Day - Lewis's mighty turn — poised between clomping Illinois farm lawyer and brooding thinker — there's career - high work from Tommy Lee Jones as Republican scowler Thaddeus Stevens, a fierce abolitionist who learns to compromise for the greater good.

Some think his abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens, an Oscar - nominated role, stole Lincoln from Daniel Day - Lewis.

Students create educational pamphlets including tips on how to be a contemporary abolitionist that are displayed on a bulletin board in the hallway from which others can learn.

Now, a new biography, I Was Born a Slave: The Story of Harriet Jacobs (Millbrook Press), written by Jennifer Fleischner and illustrated by Melanie Reim, gives students a look at slavery from the perspective of a woman who not only survived it but also went on to help and support others in the abolitionist movement.

He takes characters from wildly different social strata - a slave - dealing capitalist, an abolitionist lawyer, a light - starved coal miner, a fiddler escaped from prison - and puts them under a microscope to expose the subtle workings of their minds and morals.

Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father — an ardent pacifist — and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state.

He travels from the White House to war zones and immerses us in the political and flesh - and - blood battles on the front lines of the unheralded new abolitionist movement.

The «American Colonization Society» was supported by two very different groups: abolitionists who wanted to free African slaves and their descendants and «repatriate» them, and slave owners who feared free people of color and wanted to expel them from America.

In October 1862, an abolitionist named Julia Wilbur traveled alone south from Rochester, NY, to Union - occupied Alexandria, Virginia.

William H. Johnson's «John Brown Legend,» circa 1945, makes the abolitionist its central image and shows him coming down from a cross and being greeted by a mother and her child.

Ligon's paintings incorporate phrases and text from diverse sources from famous 19th - century abolitionist Sojourner Truth to the stand - up comedian, Richard Pryor.

Here the artist presents a portrait of abolitionist Harriet Tubman with her first husband, John, to whom she was married from 1844 to 1851.

In two works on view, Cyrus investigates the relationship between individuals and cultures at large, drawing from an archive of African - American political and cultural history that includes abolitionist John Brown, the Black Panthers, and Blaxploitation films.

The exhibition explores themes converging around feminist activists from American history, domestic ornament in service of political messages, such as Quaker abolitionist quilts and pro-Confederacy secessionist cockades, and the recent removal of Baltimore's Confederate monuments.

From the earliest Quaker abolitionist John Woolman in the 1700s to Barrack Obama in 2008 leads a thread of American thought that says that a black man or woman is equal under God and the law, and could even be President of the United States.

Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach explores animal rights issues from a perspective that «requires the abolition of animal exploitation and rejects the notion that animal use is acceptable if we treat animals «humanely.»»

Historically the scene of violence between local abolitionist and pro-slavery marauders crossing the state line from nearly Missouri, the area now offers sprawling industrial parks hosting national and global corporations like Honeywell, Husqvarna, ALDI, Garmin, and Grundfos.