Sentences with phrase «of slaveholding»

When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal actions of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, — when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.

John Saxon takes the lead in the sequel telefilm Planet Earth, where he's taken prisoner in a matriarchal society of slaveholding women and immediately becomes valued as potential breeding stock (Saxon is, quite literally, a stud).

Mrs. Auld... a most kind and tender - hearted woman... on entering upon the career of a slaveholding mistress... When I went into their family, it was the abode of happiness and contentment....

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They pointed out that slavery was practiced by the people of Israel and regulated by God, and that Jesus never said a word against slaveholding.

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.

Throughout the period of slavery, as numbers of diaries and journals reveal, many across the barriers separating the slaveholding from the enslaved knew each other as friends.

«I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women - whipping, cradle - plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

Second, it will be a challenge to calibrate the exact amount of the guilt slaveholding involved for different individuals.

The problem here is that the plaintiffs in any such suit would be obliged to sue not only the states we think of as having been slaveholding states — the states of the old Confederacy — but any state where slavery had been legalized at any time.

Few capture the kidnapping, slaveholding theology of American Christianity better than former slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass:

I love the pure, peaceable and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women - whipping, cradle - plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land... We have men - stealers for ministers, women - whippers for missionaries and cradle - plunderers for church members.

He notes the irony that the Confederacy, in order to save republicanism as it had come to understand it, transformed its own government into a more vigorous and more comprehensive agent of control than Washington had ever been when it seemed to threaten so directly the liberties of South Carolina and its sister slaveholding states.

The Southerners still were not certain of the good faith of their Northern brethren, so they proposed a Southern slaveholding pastor for an appointment as a home missionary.

Anthony Benezet wrote and spoke against it and persuaded a number of outstanding people to oppose slaveholding.

(3) The laws and prescriptions of the Jewish faith against slavery as set forth in the Holy Scriptures represented an enormous theological and ideological impediment to slaveholding.

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In my judgment, the opinion of the majority of the court in that case is in conflict with its previous decisions, with a great weight of judicial authority in other slaveholding States, and with fundamental principles of private international law.