Sentences with phrase «of slaveholders»

And just two weeks ago he penned a letter with Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, the other BLAC co-chair, calling on the New York City Housing Authority to strip the names of slaveholders off eight of its developments.

Cornegy publicly opposed to the city's contractor of choice for the NYPD's body camera program, and last year joined with BLAC co-chairman Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres in calling for the New York City Housing Authority to take the names of slaveholders off of its developments.

He eschews the term «Jacksonian democracy,» judging Jackson to be an opponent of real democracy because of his resolute support of slaveholders and his opposition to «the inclusion of non-whites and women within the American civil polity.»

Like Douglass, during his career as a slave, Brown was the chattel property of several families, and he also recorded that slavery had a corrosive influence upon the character and well - being of the slaveholders and their families.

These sentiments, common place in the homosexual rights movement, could easily have been those of slaveholders and those involved in the slave trade, and as such they would strike us as ludicrous.

There is here an implicit distinction between the apparent self - interest of the slaveholder and the real self - interest of the slaveholder which allowed Douglass to maintain that it was genuinely in the best interest of the slaveholder that slavery be abolished.

«It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives,» Northrup wrote in his memoir.

Not exact matches

Even Wood can not help noticing Christianity's «supreme usefulness to people of contrary viewpoints» — including slaveholders and abolitionists.

One has only to examine statements by slaveholders to the effect that their activity was for the purpose of Christianizing Africans who would otherwise spend eternity in hell to see the tortuous self - deceptions to which slaveholders were subject.

Of course, by refusing to consider the slaveholders for appointment, the Triennial Convention adopted a de facto anti-slavery stance.

Suggestions for any radical solution of the problem, such as emancipation, had never been seriously considered, and now that slaveholders had the cotton gin, and cotton ruled as king of their economic life, they felt that they had to maintain slavery.

In the wake of Charlottesville, officials at SUNY New Paltz have been looking into whether they should rebrand several campus buildings named for the town's founding families, who were slaveholders.

So there must be something wrong with the Constitution - and these people lump together respect for Constitutional Freedoms with the rest of the Constitution, which was written by slaveholders.

But as the stories of Eliza's life as a slave on a southern cotton plantation and her daring escape from her slaveholders come to light, Johanna's respect, then love, builds for her peer.

Many other blacks fought involuntarily; they were slaves, and slaveholders often sent their slaves to war in place of themselves.

Perkins - Valdez's striking debut sheds light on one of the more complex issues of the so - called peculiar institution: the way that some wealthy slaveholders made female slaves into pampered mistresses — and even took them on vacation.

Slavery, a cancer that takes many forms, is the source of complex relationships in this story of black slaveholders in antebellum Virginia.

The book, which highlighted the disconnect between Christian tenants and the actions of white slaveholders, became a bestseller across the United States and launched his career as an abolitionist...

The fact that they became slaveholders after they had previously been sold and exploited virtually as slaves themselves is a powerful and sobering testament to what Primo Levi called the «gray zone» of humanity, a treacherously murky ground where the persecuted becomes the persecutor, the victim turns victimizer.

Chew was recently featured on CBS Sunday Morning in a segment focused on the dichotomy of Thomas Jefferson as both champion of liberty and a slaveholder.

And the elaborateness of those descriptions seemed to speak to a complicated relationship between master and slaveholder.

Since all of us are in some way the beneficiaries of cheap fossil fuel, tackling climate change has been like trying to build a movement against yourself — it's as if the gay - rights movement had to be constructed entirely from evangelical preachers, or the abolition movement from slaveholders.