Sentences with phrase «leading abolitionist»

Cooper was a prominent Democrat, but with the party split over slavery, he was happy to host a leading abolitionist in the newly built Great Hall.

The leading abolitionists were hard put to counter the Southerners» arguments.

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People's moral and civil rights are nowadays subjected to mundane abuses of Federalism, the father of adoption's secularism and divorcee of theocracy whose many so many autocrats are of the abolitionists within Christendom's creeds of embittered many; now marrying into the servile atheists euphemisms giving rises to the ever damned younger infidels of socially perverse and vulgar demeaning pragmatisms via emotionalized pleasurable natures, leading down the future's committed vile systems of embittered communalisms reaping the awaiting harbingers» coming wraths of despotisms accruals.

Early abolitionists lead with this statement because they couldn't find a condemnation of slavery in the Bible.

To these one might add such instances as the constitutional protection of slavery which led some radical abolitionists to repudiate that document; the massive violation of civil liberties during World War I; and the internment of Japanese - American citizens during World War II.

In the years leading up to the schism, southern Baptists desired to make slavery a non-issue, while abolitionist forces in the North (and among northern Baptists) desired the convention to take a moral stand against it.

British abolitionist William Wilberforce, when he was laboring to abolish slavery in England, led small tours of slave ships.

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.

A team of men, led by the slimy W.N. Bilbo (James Spader) is tasked by Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) with essentially buying the votes of lame - duck Democrats, while abolitionist firebrand Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones, in a performance just as central and Oscar - worthy as Day - Lewis») coordinates backroom deals within his own party.

Taken into custody and tried for piracy and murder, the «Amistad Africans» gain the support of abolitionists and lawyers led by freed man Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman), stuffy Reaction Shot (Stellan Skarsgård), and earnest do - gooder Roger Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey).

Film Review by Kam Williams Civil War Saga Chronicles Exploits of Confederate Soldier - Turned - Slave Revolt Leader While the slave raids led by Nat Turner and John Brown have been well documented in the annals of American history, the relatively - successful exploits of another notorious abolitionist insurrectionist have somehow slipped through the cracks.

In conceiving the quilt works that make up Codex, Biggers was inspired by the Afrofuturist notion of «Harriet Tubman as astronaut,» the renowned abolitionist who led slaves to their freedom guided by the stars.

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.

And three days after the caning, abolitionist John Brown led a raid that killed five pro-slavery residents of Pottawatomie Creek.