Sentences with phrase «helping escaped slaves»

Still, jury nullification has been used in many U.S. cases, such as pre-Civil War cases that tried people for helping escaped slaves and Prohibition cases that tried people for violating the ban on alcohol.

First off, as I tell every US attorney when I'm dealing with them in a federal case where I have no defenses, that if slavery was legal I would still advise people how to help escaped slaves remain free because I think it's our moral imperative that we do things that are moral, and I think that prohibiting people from using medication which we know works — which we would have more peer view journal studies showing that it worked — if the federal government didn't make doing the studies so difficult.

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According to history, white people along with Harriet Tubman and others, helped slaves escape through the underground railroad.

Do you remember what Emerson said about that detestable Fugitive Slave Law which required all Americans to help return escaping slaves to their southern masters?

Huckleberry Finn once found himself quite without his intention, helping a runaway slave to escape.

A museum commemorating some of the local people and places that helped escaped African - American slaves find freedom in Canada formally opened its doors Friday.

The story of Harriet Tubman, who helped free hundreds of slaves from the South after escaping from slavery herself in 1849.

The basics: Written and directed by Gary Ross («The Hunger Games»), this fact - based Civil War drama tells the story of Newton Knight, a disillusioned Confederate Army deserter who, with the help of escaped slaves and like - minded Southern farmers, rises up against the Confederacy.

Sandwiched among the dramatic vignettes of the story, Greenwood pauses to pepper the book with historical sidebars about the «secret code» language used by those who helped shuttle slaves north to safety; a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman, known as «Moses» to those along the route; a brief history of storytelling among southern slaves; a scientific explanation for the «swamp ghosts» many slaves encountered along their escape routes; an inside look at some of the methods used to hide slaves from capture; and much, much more.

Tubman, one woman alone, made more than a dozen trips into the south, and helped at least seventy slaves escape from oppression.

In his novel Underground Airlines, Ben Winters models the secret network that helps facilitate safe travel for escaped slaves from the «Hard Four» on the 19th century Underground Railroad.

From a magical realism viewpoint, maybe Whitehead was trying to say that the railroad was built by slave labor to help slaves escape.

I found out that she had been brought from an Asian country to New York as a slave, and eventually escaped with the help of police.

Born a slave to an alien corporation, Susan Singh escaped with the help of a politician who would shape the young girl into a deadly force of human vengeance.

I can understand why, since Levi and Catherine Coffin were instrumental in helping over 2,000 runaway slaves, or freedom seekers as they were called, escape to Canada over a twenty - year period.

Nanny et Quao, Jamaîque, for example, is a reference to «Queen Nanny,» an 18th - century woman from modern - day Ghana who escaped Jamaican plantations with her brother, Quao, and is now credited with having helped free hundreds of former slaves.