Sentences with phrase «new abolitionist»
He travels from the White House to war zones and immerses us in the political and flesh - and - blood battles on the front lines of the unheralded new abolitionist movement.
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It will take decades — if God in his grace restrains the principalities and powers that seek nuclear war — for the new abolitionists to persuade militaristic America that preparation for nuclear holocaust, like slavery, is an affront to the Creator.
Not exact matches
For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»
3From Lucille Schulberg Warner's From Slave to Abolitionist: The Life of William Wells Brown, New York: Dial Press.
Nonetheless, the abolitionists seem to have breathed new life into some tested and sensible ideas, including bail - bond reform, suspended sentences, work release, and liberalized probation and parole policies.
«I became convinced after my study of the subject in Abolitionists Abroad,» says Sanneh, «that 18th - century evangelical Christianity represented a social revolution of enormous import for the New World and for Africa by offering outcasts, slaves and captives a moral perspective on their oppression and exclusion....
The group was also responsible for arranging the New England tour of the most prominent feminist abolitionists of the era, Sarah and Angelina Grimke.
One of the early peace groups to draw a connection between feminism and peace was the Garrisonian wing, of the New England Non-Resistance Society in the 1830s, including among its members such prominent early abolitionist - feminists as Maria Weston Chapman, Lucretia Mott and William Lloyd Garrison himself.
The reaction is hardly a new one: abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier wrote to Sarah and Angelina Grimke, early American abolitionists and advocates of women's rights, about their concern for women: «Is it not forgetting the great and dreadful wrongs of the slave in a selfish crusade against some paltry grievance of [your] own?»
Encouraged to «write something» in time for the 2007 Bicentennial, Pam compiled and published Celebrating Whittier, New England's Quaker Poet and Abolitionist: America's 1907 Centennial.
It remained popular target for Labour activists for much of the 20th century, though the party's abolitionist zeal waned with the rise of New Labour.
New York, a Northern stronghold of Unionists and abolitionists, has few Confederate memorials.
The women's rights pioneer and abolitionist was born 200 years ago this past Thursday in Johnstown in New York's Mohawk Valley.
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Abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman will grace a new $ 20 bill: «With this decision, our currency will now tell more of our story and reflect the contributions of women as well as men to our great democracy,» Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said.
Ejiofor is Solomon Northrup, a free black man from upstate New York who is abducted and sold into slavery before finally meeting up with a Canadian abolitionist who will change his life.
The title of First Reformed, Paul Schrader's best film in a very long time, refers to an old abolitionist church in upstate New York, a metaphor for Christianity's neglected values.
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«Mercy Street» focuses on two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War — New England abolitionist Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green, whose family's luxury hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, has been converted into the Mansion House Union Army hospital.
Season 3 sees Will Ferrell, an executive producer, playing children's author Roald Dahl during his days as a British spy; Josh Hartnett as Hollywood icon Clark Gable; Oscar winner Octavia Spencer as abolitionist Harriet Tubman; Topher Grace as board game mogul Milton Bradley; Michael Cera as the leader of the New York newsboy strike of 1899; Dennis Quaid and Sam Rockwell as mobsters Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel; Jack Black as Los Angeles water system architect William Mulholland.
Today in casting new: Kevin Spacey sent Woody Allen a Netflix subscription in the hopes of getting cast in one of his movies, and Ed Harris will star in a movie as an abolitionist.
Now, a new biography, I Was Born a Slave: The Story of Harriet Jacobs (Millbrook Press), written by Jennifer Fleischner and illustrated by Melanie Reim, gives students a look at slavery from the perspective of a woman who not only survived it but also went on to help and support others in the abolitionist movement.
When the British abolitionists come looking for «adventurers» to create a new colony in Sierra Leone, Aminata assists in moving 1,200 Nova Scotians to Africa and aiding the abolitionist cause by revealing the realities of slavery to the British public.
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