Sentences with phrase «in slave societies»

thinks that slaves are obliged to work in a slave society.

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However Christian bashing and discrimination — ESPECIALLY Catholic bashing in modern society is regrettably as alive and well as a bigotted southern plantation slave owner in the 1840s.

Cobb has failed to see that the worldview of the Romans (in this case, the best possible situation for all in their domain) and their slaves (immediate liberation for themselves no matter what the consequence to the dominant society) are incommensurable.

Christians did not work for change so that slaves would be regarded as having equal value while maintaining a subordinate status and role in society.

How are people seeking to dismantle the divides between Jew and Gentile, slave and free, male and female supposed to live in a society where these divisions were so central to the culture and where doing so my arouse even more suspicion and persecution?

Feudal times witnessed sharp cleavages in society, with slaves and serfs and sweating toilers of lands.

The qualitative transformation which the Marxists allow from one economic structure to another: from slave society to the feudalistic, from the feudalistic to the capitalistic, and from the capitalistic to the communistic (supposedly), is, in terms of the evolution of reason, merely quantitative change.

In fact, incredibly, they placed demands on the assumed power of men by teaching them to be kind to their slaves, to be gentle with their children, to love their wives; they addressed the powerless within a patriarchal society.

And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.

Ransom and Redemption describes the process by which we have been saved within the context of the slave system so prevalent for so long in most societies.

How else could you justify killing all the males in a society and taking their women as slaves.

In the aristocratic society, labor is for slaves, not for free men.

Work was carried out largely through a system of slaves, so that the privilege of play and the obligation of work were mutually exclusive social functions performed by two distinct groups in society.

Although her family was prosperous, as a descendent of slaves she was expected to make her way in society by becoming available as a «mistress» to rich white men.

17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

The long record of racial mixing under slavery between masters and female slaves (as in the much - debated case of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings) produced populations that were so lightskinned that they passed into white society (as several of Sally Hemings» children did) and populations so darkskinned that they lost all memory of the white European genes they inherited.

Some twenty slaves (he continued) have stood firm through all this fiery opposition, and if the persecution somewhat lessens I am told great numbers will join... «52 Events such as these demonstrate how powerful missionaries could become in local society.

The workers are the saviors of society; the redeemers of the race; and when they have fulfilled their great historic mission, men and women can walk the highlands and enjoy the vision of a land without masters and without slaves, a land regenerated and resplendent in the triumph of freedom and civilization.20

Some years before Revelation was written, Paul was sending letters to churches in Asia Minor and Greece to build up the Christ - rooted societies with an egalitarian credo, recognizing believers whether they were Greek or Jew, male or female, slave or free, These assemblies stood «in contrast to the hierarchical social relations» in the empire, Horsley wrote in Paul and Empire, a book deemed significant by Wright, a New Testament scholar and the Anglican bishop of Durham.

That piety guided him to simplify his business and family life so that they would serve the «concern» that grew upon him until he became a one - man abolition society traversing the colonies to act for justice in the case of slaves.65

A stratified society, with wealthy landowners at the top and slaves at the bottom and, in between, a mass of poor folk skirting precariously the edge of servitude for debt and in times of depression forced into it or compelled to sell sons or daughters to redeem the family's fortunes — such a picture is revealed by a careful reading of the records.

Even in the comparatively simple society of 1000 B.C., one household of which we read had at least twenty slaves, (II Samuel 19:17.)

If the cultivation of the greatest amount of Mill's higher or intellectual pleasures could be realized in a certain society only by the slave labor of a small group within that society, then it appears that we would, according to the principle of utility, be required to enslave that group in order to promote the greatest happiness.

Plato did not contemplate a society without slaves despite the critique of slavery implicit in his doctrine.

At the Washington meeting it was decided to form the American Colonization Society for the purpose of encouraging the emancipation of slaves and the transportation of freed slaves back to their homeland in Africa.

You can be a Christian in an oppressive (Romanesque) society, as willing slaves (who obey their masters as they obey God), or in any other situation.

How could the child of a slave, raised in poverty in a racist and classist society, love God so totally and unconditionally and ask nothing but the privilege of service?

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.

The 35 - year - old actress, who allegedly helped recruit «sex slaves» into a secret society called «DOS,» reached out to both Emma Watson and Kelly Clarkson on social media in what look like early introductions to NXIVM.

In America it was a little different though because the aristocratic society tended to be the slave owners in the south and they also tended to be anti monarchy but pro federal government, pro standing army, and pro collecting taxes from stateIn America it was a little different though because the aristocratic society tended to be the slave owners in the south and they also tended to be anti monarchy but pro federal government, pro standing army, and pro collecting taxes from statein the south and they also tended to be anti monarchy but pro federal government, pro standing army, and pro collecting taxes from states.

Private property in productive goods is fairly unique to Slave societies (Greece, Rome) and Capitalism.

Waging war is just one of the habits that ants share with humans: Many species live in large, well - organized societies, and others take slaves, herd aphids like cattle, and raise fungi for food in underground farms.

The network of those involved in slave trade included men who participated in raids, slave traders and customers representing the leading class of society.

While revenge narratives are often highly problematic in the way they represent certain aspects of society as deserving a violent death, Tarantino creates revenge narratives against characters that nobody in their right mind would sympathise with — Nazis in Inglourious Basterds and now sadistic slave owners in Django Unchained.

’12 Years A Slave» has been winning a rash of critics awards the last week, and today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society joined in the fun also awarding top prize to the Fox Searchlight film along with Steve McQueen for directing and Lupita N'yongo for Supporting Actress.

12 Years a Slave is best in show with the New York Film Critics Online, Boston Society of Film Critics, and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

Elisabeth Moss, herself an Emmy winner for playing a baby - making slave in a near - future patriarchal society, took the lead actress Globe, dedicating the honor to «Handmaid's Tale» author Margaret Atwood.

The New York Film Critics voted the morning after seeing the film, and weren't inclined to rush to judgment; the Boston Society of Film Critics had one morning screening that a hefty percentage of members couldn't attend, but it still finished a close second to «12 Years a Slave» in best - picture voting.

'12 Years A Slave» has been winning a rash of critics awards the last week, and today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society joined in the fun also awarding top prize to the Fox Searchlight film along with Steve McQueen for directing and Lupita N'yongo for Support...

Consider too the appearance of an interpreter played by Chiwetel Ejiofor in an uncomfortable echo of his recent role as Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave, speaking to the essential problem in American pictures that African - Americans are generally recognized for playing servile (slave / servant), athlete, musician, or criminal — the very roles they're cast into in American society, as it hapSlave, speaking to the essential problem in American pictures that African - Americans are generally recognized for playing servile (slave / servant), athlete, musician, or criminal — the very roles they're cast into in American society, as it hapslave / servant), athlete, musician, or criminal — the very roles they're cast into in American society, as it happens.

Other times the societies he fought against destroyed him: the vengeful Detective Jim McLeod getting shot by a perp whose life he ruined in William Wyler's Detective Story (1951); Colonel Dax being sent back to the front by the World War One military brass he dared to defy in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957); Spartacus getting crucified for leading a slave rebellion in Kubrick's Spartacus (1960).

In Jefferson's era, the United States was an agrarian society with large estates in the south employing slave labor and small self - sufficient family farms in the nortIn Jefferson's era, the United States was an agrarian society with large estates in the south employing slave labor and small self - sufficient family farms in the nortin the south employing slave labor and small self - sufficient family farms in the nortin the north.

Person feel important and not a slave to the society and his family to follow their hegemony on his life in a indirect way.

Society's lowest classes — slaves or serfs or peasants or blue collar toilers — temporarily slipped their yokes and engaged in a period of wild revelry and misrule.

The dance originated in the mid-1800s in bordellos and other spaces in the then working class port areas of Buenos Aires, like San Telmo, La Boca and Barracas, where recent immigrants, freed slaves and others on the margins of society mingled together.

In its prime, the Maya people were governed by a hierarchical society of nobles, commoners, serfs, and slaves.

Sarah Forbes Bonetta, captured as a slave and later a Victorian society figure, among more than 40 sitters featured in National Portrait Gallery exhibition

Her work — which includes portraits of enslaved people painted on jugs, plates, newspapers, and other domestic objects, as well as full - size cutouts of figures in colorful historical costumes — not only examines the histories of colonialism and the slave trade, but also the way their effects continue to play out in society today.

To mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade, Lancashire Museums invited artist Lubaina Himid to create new work exploring Lancaster's significant role in this trade, its legacies and the issues that still have an impact on today's society