Sentences with phrase «many slave owners»

After sweeping the grand jury and audience awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Nate Parker's directorial debut, in which he plays slave Nat Turner who orchestrates an uprising against slave owners in Virginia, is receiving a lot of award - season heat.

«They are not going to get a surprise story that they are buying something from a slave owner.»

Trump grouped former presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who fought to create the United States, together as «slave owners,» with southern leaders Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson.

«Was George Washington a slave owner?

... Because he was a major slave owner,» Trump said.

«The slave owners had obligations to feed and clothe the slaves.

As such, was He not, in so many words, calling for the land owners, slave owners and wealth hoarders to cede their ownings for re-distribution, as the Torah proclaimed should happen every 50 years?

It's not entirely clear and doesn't provide near as much evidence to oppress a people as the slave owners of the south, had!!!

BTW — Slavery was around for so long because it was good for the slave owner and the cheap labor benefitted scociety.

If it was murder the slave owner was punished.

At a climactic point, after Uncle Tom experiences a vision of the crucified Christ in preparation for his own martyrdom, the slave owner Legere begins to beat him and then suddenly realizes that «it was GOD who was standing between him and his victim.»

Why didn't your omnipotent god tell slave owners that owning people was wrong and that they should instead pay their slaves as free workers?

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.

One similarity most slave owners had was that they were rich.

when he sent the letter in Philemon... he told the slave owner to «love the slave as a brother» if again, one truly loves another... they would not enslave them

To discount MLK because of how he may have felt about gay rights would be like discounting Jefferson b / c he was a slave owner.

The book of Philemon is a letter from Paul that exhorts the slave owner to accept the return of his runaway slave as an equal... a brother.

«All men created equal» yet it took almost 100 years for slavery to be abolished and a lot of those intelligent founding fathers you think so highly of were slave owners.

Many of the slave owners of the Americas attended church regularly.

We can find examples of slave owners from every group, including the non-religious and atheistic ones.

The abolitionists didn't point to their bibles for support; the slave owners did.

God's answer to slave owners taking a rod and beating their elderly female slaves (even breaking their bones as long as they didn't die «in a day or so») was there was to be NO VENGEANCE taken on them.

What does God say is the PUNISHMENT if a slave owner takes a rod and beats his elderly female slave, but she doesn't die «in a day or so»?

Her slave owner is allowed to marry her and if he does marry her he must sleep with her.

«One day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

My ancestors were not slave owners, but they fought a war to protect their neighbors who were.

According to God, what would be the punishment if a slave owner took a rod and broke the arms or legs of an ELDERLY FEMALE SLAVE and they didn't die in a day or so?

The slave owner could «give them a wife» and children.

Now contrast that to a benevolent slave owner who provides all the necessities of life to a slave.

A slave owner or a governmental or military commander.

Pagels grants that many Christians were themselves slave owners, yet says others went among the Roman Empire's wretched outcasts with the message of radical equality — that class, education and gender «made no difference.»

It is no longer possible to bring the slave owners and traders to justice — yet the legacy of their crimes continues to benefit those who inherited the power and privileges that emerged from that injustice.

The same slave owners evangelized the slaves into Christian moral codes and dogmas that insisted slaves renounce their native spiritual traditions.

If you were active in opposing things like gay rights people a hundred years from now will remember you at least as well as we remember slave owners these days.

Douglass maintained that slavery had a corrosive influence upon the «character» and general well - being of the slave owner and of the whole slaveholding community.

But all people are no Christian secondly we as African Americans was taught by our slave owners of Christianity.

In particular Brown noted the damaging influence of slavery upon the children of slave owners.

This was true to some extent even for the poor within the limits set by feudal landlords and slave owners.

In order for his appeal to be successful Douglass knew he would have to reconcile a certain pious regard for the well - being of slave owners with supporting the slaves» struggle for liberation.

I know atheists that descended from slave owners, too.

What does the Bible say the PUNISHMENT should be if a slave owner uses a rod to break the arms and legs of an elderly woman slave and she doesn't die in a day or so?

Regardless, Slaves as well as slave owners were subject to punishment.

African - Americans tend to be Baptist or Methodist because many of the slave owners were of those particular denominations, therefore that is what they grew up in.

JLS1950 The slave owners that they were fighting against were also Christians.

Students would address teachers this way, slaves their owners, and servants their employers.

Even without that we know what a lot of Roman men did with their younger male slaves and its obvious a slave owner isn't going to be so distraught in saving a piece of property he could easily replace unless he was in love.

He noted that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were also slave owners and added: «I wonder, is it George Washington next week?

And just as we no longer countenance slavery, which both Old and New Testaments regarded as normal, so we also no longer countenance the use of female slaves, concubines and captives as sexual toys or breeding machines by their male owners, which Leviticus 19:20 f., II Samuel 5:13 and Numbers 31:17 - 20 permitted — and as many American slave owners did slightly over 100 years ago.

Here for instance is a speech given by the Rev. Jesse Jackson in New York and Chicago in which he compares the Christian Coalition to Nazis, slave owners, and Jim Crow segregationists.

You're saying that having slaves is more important because the rich slave owners will suffer financially without them.