Sentences with phrase «of slave states»

I'd never thought of slave catchers reaching outside of slave states to round up escaped slaves.

Savage explained to him that if the South won the war, they intended to form a new Republic, the «Golden Circle,» which would form a powerful association of slave states as far north as the Mason - Dixon line and south to Mexico and Central America.

Not exact matches

This is one of those facts that makes you stop and check a calendar — but yes, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company in the United States was the grandson of a slave.

Fighters from Islamic State are using forced birth control on their sex slaves to avoid pregnancies that might halt the cycle of sexual abuse.The women and girls, some as young as 16, have described being force - fed pills.

1 55 million Second World War 20C 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C 3 40 million Mongol Conquests 13C 4 36 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C 7 20 million Annihilation of the South and North American Indians 15C - 19C 8 20 million Iosif Stalin 20C 9 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C 10 18 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C 11 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 12 17 million British India (mostly famine) 19C 13 15 million First World War 20C 14 9 million Russian Civil War 20C 15 8 million Fall of Rome 3C - 5C 16 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 17 7 million Thirty Years War 17C 18 5 million Russia's Time of Troubles 16C - 17C 19 4 million Napoleonic Wars 19C 20 3 million Chinese Civil War 20C 21 3 million French Wars of Religion 16C

If the bible clearly states that blacks should still be slaves, then why did GOD lead Moses out of Egypt.

Second, even if you give that these scenarios are «voluntary» (really... if the state allows a scenario where slavery is the only employment option????) they were just a fraction of the slave population.

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists / atheists vs. Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism / atheists) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C (Christians) 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm

Welcome to the new Civil War, only this time instead of slave - owners hiding their avarice behind claims of state's rights, it's religious extremists who are doing that.

«Mayat», a 17 - year - old Yazidi, is one of around 40 women being held as a sex slave by Islamic State (IS) militants.

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists vs. Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C (Communism vs. Christianity et al) 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians vs pagans) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans vs Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C

The notorious Dred Scott decision (1837) asserted that because slaves were their masters» property Congress could not ban slavery anywhere in the United States — a holding that ignored the Framers» compromise of tolerating slavery temporarily but allowing eventual measures against it.

Until the current deity of choice (The God of Abraham) actually shows himself, I for one will not accept the talking snakes, virgin births, and condemnation of personal freedoms that surround the belief in him — like stoning someone for working on the sabbath, or killing children who curse their parents, or the rules of owning slaves, all concepts clearly stated in the Old Testament.

Pretty strong language, but no stronger than the metaphor Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation used, in an op - ed article in The Washington Times, to «describe a bill designed to prevent corporations from rechartering abroad for tax purposes: Mitchell described this legislation as the «Dred Scott tax bill,» referring to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that required free states to return escaped slaves.

A reader who wishes to know, for instance, why Article 1, section 9, clause 1 prohibited Congress from making any alteration until 1808 in «the Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit» can turn to Volume III and find 28 contemporary documents on slavery and the slave trade.

But before she did all that, Biddy successfully sued her owners for her freedom after the family and their slaves moved to the free state of California in the 1850s.

In March of 1865, Lincoln saw to the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau to assist the Negroes in making the transition from the slave to the free state.

The capitol building was built on the backs of slaves, and tomorrow a black man will stand on its steps and be sworn in as president of the United States.

I think Bob has stated perfectly why people are leaving this faith, because many aspects of it are implausible and unreasonable... which many Christians fully admit (God doesn't want us to use the brain he gifted us with, He just wants simple obedience / faith — like a drone or slave).

Um... West Virginia was part of the Union, in fact West Virginia exists because that part of Virginia was not comfortable with the iidea of slave ownership and the state was divided.

They mingle as unequals, as when the United States and Brazil imported blacks as slaves, to the benefit of the stronger.

In 1845, the same year that Texas entered the union as a slave state, a group of Baptists in the South formed the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

He detailed how some had been: «evicted from their homes and native lands, sold as slaves, killed, beheaded, crucified or burned alive, under the shameful and complicit silence of so many,» suggesting it was legitimate to try to stop an «unjust aggressor» like Islamic State.

Rank Death Toll Cause Centuries 1 63 million Second World War 20C 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C 40 million Genghis Khan 13C 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C 11 15 million First World War 20C 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C

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?

20 years behind us southern states and NEW YORK, sad and scary... nobody denies freedoms like the south, nobody... the top ten incarcerators on the planet are southern states and more blacks are in prison then were slaves before the civil war... even if marijuana reforms did pass the republiCANTS in charge would deny you all your freedoms, centuries of practice... no matter though, we never planned on getting your backwards brethren from day one, half the country already but not one southern state, lol... not 1....

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists vs. Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C (Christians) 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C

Let's not forget Maryland (Catholics), Pennsylvania (Quakers), and I can't help but add Georgia — a southern state and the only one at the time of its founding to prohibit slavery (Oglethorpe who had made his fortune in the slave trade felt bad about how he had made his money and paid off the debts of folks imprisoned for their debts and procured them land and gave them a new chance), New York (originally a Dutch colony procured after the Dutch lost the Dutch - Anglo War, the Carolinas, and so on.

Ellison and I regarded ourselves as being the heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefigurations of the most fundamental existential assumption underlying the human proposition as stated in the Declaration of Independence... Yes, it would be the likes of him... and me... the grandchildren of slaves freed by the Civil War, betrayed by Reconstruction... who would strive in our stories to provide American literature with representative anecdotes, definitive episodes, and mythic profiles that would add up to a truly comprehensive and universally appealing American epic.

The United States welcomed its immigrants, protected its workers, freed the slaves, enfranchised women, aided the needy, provided social security for the aged, ensured the civil rights of all its citizens, and made public space accessible to the handicapped: all in service to its ideals of justice.

Because of the need to atone for the crimes of the slave traders and the rapacious settlers of the West and undo the consequences of those injustices, the liberal tells the prospective welfare state contributor.

But he makes no effort to envision what history would become if sane states and sane leaders loved their enemies unto death, leaving the world to concentration camps and suicide bombings, to well - armed and deluded men who would kill our children and make us all slaves of their power within history.

The conference finally adopted several arguably peripheral constitutional amendments such as forbidding acquisition of new U.S. territory without approval by a majority of both slave - state and free - state senators, guaranteeing federal compensation for fugitive slaves when failure to return them was due to anti-slavery violence or intimidation, and restoring and perpetuating the Missouri Compromise line that once satisfied both regions but had been struck down by the Dred Scott decision.

In the Constitution, before it was amended, a black slave counted as 3/5 of a person in determining how many representatives a state would have in Congress.

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians and Communists vs. Christians, Nazi - Pagans and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communists / atheists) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C (Communists / atheists) 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists / atheists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans vs Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C (Christians vs Pagans) 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C

The second she loses that control, she becomes tantamount to property of the state, and in this nation it's illegal for even the government to own slaves.

Indeed, the text of the memorandum clearly reflects their humanitarian concern with the evils of the slave system They demanded the emancipation of all the slaves in Travancore as an act of «humanity and kindness» The petition stated:

The overburdened taxpayer is NOT a Cheerful giver, but a reluctant slave of the state.

As a result of CMS missionary interest in «runaway» slaves, and the CMS missionaries» continued pressure on the State government, Pulayas were protected from further violence.

It's a little too late for praying, it's Mrs.Clinton's call to be @ the helm; now, with her hubby Mr.Clinton as VP; and one of you out of all of you, need to tell Romney he's committed fraud, for leaving the Post of so - called gov.that theirs a 2 yr.interval that must be met; the same fo Obama; whom is worst off then Bush Jr.then for none of you to have no Allegiance to be nothing but commander of thieves, since April 4th, 1968 to presently; in the killing of Dr.King Jr.must still go under Oath to all you perjurers; that mustn't go unpunished to the array of charges I have stored up against each of yo on every job, on every public premise; that Obama didn't praywhen he lied to GOD ALMIGHTY in perjury; to have left the seat of sen.to jump to the office; knowing he hadn't a clue what to do; so he got Joe, which is Cheney all over; whom should of been out of public; and he knows that and all the fugitives, even in the Italian led court in DC; that will have to answer to what is -LCB- H.R. 7152 -RCB-; and why they let Olsen for Bush Jr.waste the American's People's time, not to mention all the lives that's been lost; for the tyrannies since 1968 to presently has cost; Vote I, Edward Baltimore; to confirm I; Governor of DC; as of 2/16/12; cause DC; has been a State, already; and all you slaves from State to State; need to snap out of your peonage which is prohibited by Federal Laws; on anybody!!!!!!!

Paul encourages slaves and women to submit to the head of the household as «unto the Lord,» making Christ the final authority to whom they are accountable, not the man or the State.

1 55 million Second World War 20C 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C 3 40 million Mongol Conquests 13C 4 36 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C 7 20 million Annihilation of the American Indians 15C - 19C 8 20 million Iosif Stalin 20C 9 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C 10 18 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C 11 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 12 17 million British India (mostly famine) 19C 13 15 million First World War 20C 14 9 million Russian Civil War 20C 15 8 million Fall of Rome 3C - 5C 16 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 17 7 million Thirty Years War 17C 18 5 million Russia's Time of Troubles 16C - 17C 19 4 million Napoleonic Wars 19C 20 3 million Chinese Civil War 20C 21 3 million French Wars of Religion 16C

They have stressed obedience to the Lord's command «Go, and teach all nations» but have been shy of stating the conviction of Scripture and Tradition, up to and including Vatican II, that unless they hear the Gospel and enter the Church, many will remain slaves of the devil, the flesh and the world, and may never attain the eternal life Christ won for them upon the Cross.

Throughout the whole period of classical civilization the foundations of social order could scarcely sustain the weight upon them — the wars between states, the surrounding barbarians, the political convulsions, the evils of the slave system.

To the descendants of African slaves living in America, the Gospel of Jesus offers the only way to get out of the false state religion of America.

Sandford (whose name was actually Sanford), acting on behalf of his sister who was Dred Scott's owner, injected into the litigation the question whether any black person, free or slave, could be a citizen of the United States, and he directly challenged the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which forbade slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36 ° 30».

As among the conglomerate people of the United States there is a common identification and a common sense of participation in the formative events of national history, so also the people of all of Israel's varied tribal backgrounds made the common confession of faith: «We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand... and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land which he swore to give to our fathers» (Deut.

1 63 million Second World War 20C 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C 40 million Genghis Khan 13C 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C 11 15 million First World War 20C 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C»

Scott was a slave in Missouri who had been taken by his master into the free state of Illinois and the free Wisconsin Territory.