Sentences with phrase «held slaves of»

Taking into account hundreds of years of crusades, various inquisitions and witch burnings, not including all those good Christian southerners who held slaves of their own...

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That would be like me holding white people responsible and demanding that YOU apologize for slave ownership of my ancestors.

He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.»

Were a person to have violated a court order directing the return of a runaway slave when Dred Scott was the law, would a genuinely held belief that a slave was a human person and not an article of property be a matter the Court could not consider in deciding whether that person was guilty of a criminal contempt charge?

«Mayat», a 17 - year - old Yazidi, is one of around 40 women being held as a sex slave by Islamic State (IS) militants.

The notorious Dred Scott decision (1837) asserted that because slaves were their masters» property Congress could not ban slavery anywhere in the United States — a holding that ignored the Framers» compromise of tolerating slavery temporarily but allowing eventual measures against it.

Marriages were typically based on economic considerations, not love, with wives holding a higher position than slaves in the household, but still functioning in many ways as the property of their husbands, who could do with them as they willed.

What makes the New Testament household codes powerful and countercultural is that they actually challenge those hierarchies by instructing all members of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves, wives, and children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their relationships by modeling his self - sacrificing love.

As proof of this fact, you should understand that it wasn't so long ago that white settlers in this country held black slaves to forced labor, and virtually all religions of those days condoned the practice.

''... the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it can not be supposed that the inspired Apostles... would have tolerated it for a moment in the Christian Church.

Eventually the Church moved to the forefront of abolition because we understood this truth: Just because the Bible contained instructions about how to treat slaves in a context and culture where it was acceptable to hold slaves does not mean slavery is a godly practice or part of God's intended purpose for creation.)

At the moment of writing this book, for example, we know that the Communists hold as slave laborers in Siberia great numbers of wretched human beings who are treated with deliberate brutality.

If the early church could hold together communities made up of Jews and Greeks, slaves and free, men and women, circumcised and uncircumcised, tax collectors and zealots, prostitutes and Pharisees, kosher believers and non-kosher believers, those who ate food sacrificed to idols and those who refused, I guess this evolution - accepting, hell - questioning, liberal - leaning feminist can worship Jesus alongside a Tea Party complementarian who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and that Ghandi and Anne Frank are in hell.

In their first meeting, Valjean sings that he knows the meaning of «19 years a slave of the law», but by the end we realise that it is actually Javert who is held captive by legalism.

c. And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have; from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves: Foreign slaves among the Jews did not have the same rights as Hebrew slaves sold into servitude because of debt; they could be held as slaves for life, though they had to be treated humanely (Exodus 20:8 - 11; 21:20 - 21).

Lengel's account of Barnum acquiring (for $ 1000) and then parading elderly African - American Joice Heth around the East Coast as «the 161 - year - old slave mammy» to George Washington is equally disturbing and gripping; put on display 14 hours a day for a paying public, Heth soon died, and Barnum held a public autopsy - charging 50 cents a head.»

If god does exist and does bestow the act of freewill and is also bound to never, never interfere with that freewill (except for the exceptions in the bible, like basically forcing the pharoh to hold the jews as slaves even after a number of plagues), his omnipotent nature is underminded that he can't even have the power to force anyone to act the way he wants.

For philistinism thinks it is in control of possibility, it thinks that when it has decoyed this prodigious elasticity into the field of probability or into the mad - house it holds it a prisoner; it carries possibility around like a prisoner in the cage of the probable, shows it off, imagines itself to be the master, does not take note that precisely thereby it has taken itself captive to be the slave of spiritlessness and to be the most pitiful of all things.

Wives were considered the property of their husband, though they held a higher status and more privileges than slaves and concubines (Exodus 20:17).

«The right of holding slaves is clearly established by the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.»

jbhollen «the slave does not die immediately but hangs on for a day or two before dying, the master is held blameless» = > nowhere does it say or imply «blameless», the verse is continuation of the thought concerning compensation for loss when someone is injured by your actions.

The RSV has custodian; Weymouth, tutor slave; Moffatt has it that the Law held us wards in discipline; Kingsley Williams has the slave that disciplined us; the NLB, a kind of tutor in charge of us; Phillips has it that the Law is a strict governess.

And yet it's hard to see how Peter and Pauls» remix of the household codes, when compared to the most popular of the day, could be read as anything but profoundly subversive, given the high value they place on wives, slaves, and children, and the way they hold ruling men accountable to a heavenly Master and a heavenly Father.

One of the early Hebrew laws, for example, forbade the holding of a Hebrew slave for more than six years.

Itâ $ ™ s as if I have been released from leg chains in the hold of an 18th century slave ship and transported to a world of such natural beauty that I canâ $ ™ t find a point to begin observing it for fear that I will miss something in another location.

The ethical aspect of Christianity informs us that no one ought be held as a slave.

I agree with you, btw, when you say: «The ethical aspect of Christianity informs us that no one ought be held as a slave.»

Bales reminds us that while today's 27 million may be the largest number of slaves ever held at one time, historically it is the smallest proportion of slaves relative to the world's total population, which suggests that slavery as an institution is declining.

Given the supposed high proporation of christians in the USA, how do you explain that many slave owners were not held accountable according to your book of supernatural tribal mythology?

As the eighteenth century opened, a number of Quakers as well as Puritans, Presbyterians, and Anglicans held slaves.

Vermont in 1777 did specifically prohibit the holding of slaves.

Many Churches had regulations against the holding of slaves, but the question of enforcement raised a real problem.

There is no lashing out here against the evils of slavery and a demand that Philemon give up the practice of slave - holding, or even that he set Onesimus, the returned slave, free.

My theory of plant transfer held that Indian immigrants to Trinidad, indentured servants replacing freed slaves in the sugar cane plantations, eventually were freed themselves and some became farmers.

It's the company that makes much of sourcing less than 3 % of its cocoa through Fairtrade - certified suppliers, while fighting a legal battle against former child slaves who hold it responsible for their treatment on cocoa plantations in Sierra Leone.

But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

He posted a pic of Farrakhan on Instagram on Dec. 20, 2017, in which he holds a book by the Nation of Islam titled «Jews Selling Blacks: Slave Sale Advertising by American Jews.»

A former member of the Black Panthers and the National Black United Front, Mr. Barron has gained notoriety for calling Thomas Jefferson a «slave - holding pedophile,» for hosting Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe at City Hall, for praising Cuba's Fidel Castro and Libya's Muammar el - Quaddafi and — in overwhelmingly pro-Israel New York — for being not just pro-Palestinian but pro-Hamas.

Now, a lot of the performances don't help a sense of melodrama, for a number of supporting performances fall flat, but the leads nevertheless deliver as best they can, whether it be Victor Mature as a struggling, but wise slave who holds passion and fury over the demise of a great man, or leading man Richard Burton as a militant man of admiration, love, and guilt, which Burton sells through an impassioned and layered performance.

When Schultz locates her as property of Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), he and Django offer up a ruse to get Candie's attention and make their way into the depths of Candyland, the plantation where Cavil holds sway over numerous slaves, none more visible than Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), an ancient house slave afforded the opportunity to speak freely.

Nyong» o not only holds her own against the heavyweights but also shines in the role of Patsey, a slave who attracts the unwanted obsession of her owner (Fassbender).

Nicolas Winding Refn's latest saga of primal masculine rage, Valhalla Rising sets itself in 1000 A.D. in the Scandinavian mountains, where a mute warrior slave dubbed One Eye (Mads Mikkelsen) is held captive in a cage, only allowed out to battle for sport while tethered at the neck to a wooden post.

The two of them carry on with their bounty hunting and learn that Broomhilda is being held as a slave in the arms of Calvin Candie (DiCaprio).

With a makeshift band of escaped slaves and disgruntled farmers, he held several counties in Mississippi against Confederate forces and survived the war.

Adapted by Emma Donoghue from her own novel, the film begins on the fifth birthday of Jack, who lives with his Ma in a 10 × 10 shed where she has been held as a sex slave for seven years.

The stoic gunslinger's resolve to go it alone is soon tested when he crosses paths with Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a fearless alpha female making a break across the desert with former sex slaves hidden in the hold of her big rig.

The rest of the cast easily hold their own against the two leads, including Lupita Nyong» o (12 Years a Slave) as Nakia, a warrior princess who is T'Challa's main love interest; Danai Gurira (Michonne on AMC's The Walking Dead) as Okoye, the head of Wakandan security; Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) as W'Kabi, a disgruntled prince; the aforementioned Wright and Serkis; and Martin Freeman (Bilbo in the recent Hobbit films) as a CIA officer who unexpectedly finds himself fighting alongside T'Challa and his family.

Set in Ancient Rome, Spartacus follows a group of slaves that are bought up by a trainer of gladiators to hold as entertainment for patricians who want to see them fight to the death.

During slavery, White slave masters would hold auctions to sell Black people, displaying their distinguishing qualities as form of proof for overall worth.

Let this be the movie that finally banishes all notions of there having been anything gallant or glorious in the values of the slave - holding states.