Sentences with phrase «on abolitionist»

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As the abortion language represents the sole area of disagreement among lawmakers on this vital legislation, trafficking abolitionists are eager to see a compromise worked out.

The novelist Marilynne Robinson shows the destructive effect of all that blood on the idealism of the neo-Puritanical, abolitionist MIDWEST.

For example, William Wilberforce (who is largely responsible for bringing the abolitionist movement to bear in the English speaking world) fought & successfully changed the British Empire's laws based on his very * conservative * biblical understanding.

As you can see, Christians advocating for the preservation of slavery did not characterize their abolitionist opponents as simply disagreeing with them on the interpretation of the biblical text, but instead tended to accuse them of not taking the Bible seriously at all.

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.»

Remember, morals change in society; look at the abolitionist, women's suffrage, and civil rights movement, all of them originally didn't have «morality» on their side, but as society changed, the morals changed.

«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....

Religion News Service: PBS series depicts American abolitionists as fired by faith As the nation marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, PBS premieres «The Abolitionists,» a three - part series, on Tuesabolitionists as fired by faith As the nation marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, PBS premieres «The Abolitionists,» a three - part series, on TuesAbolitionists,» a three - part series, on Tuesday (Jan. 8).

Southern Baptists, on the other hand, defended the institution of slavery and attacked the Northern abolitionists.

The book's gala collection of newspaper clippings, photographs and tributes provides a wealth of material for teaching blocks on 19th century U.S. literature, history, and the Abolitionist Movement.

In addition to «Mum Bett», OSV will feature portrayals of Abby Kelley, a 19th - century abolitionist, and William Lloyd Garrison, a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society on Martin Luther King Jr..

She went on to became a noted abolitionist and women's rights advocate until her death in 1883.

Seven posters citing the words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, accompanied by a jersey of former NFL star Colin Kaepernick, were neatly arranged outside Syracuse City Hall on East Washington Street.

The U.S. Treasury Department had decided that abolitionist Harriet Tubman will replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $ 20 bill, while Alexander Hamilton, one of the U.S. founding fathers, will remain on the front of the $ 10 bill.

Frederick Douglass, who's buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, declined to comment on Trump saying the abolitionist and author is doing an «amazing job.»

Lincoln relies on Republican Party founder Francis Preston Blair's (Hal Holbrook) support to wrangle votes from border - state Republicans, and Republican Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) becomes the face of the abolitionist push.

Tommy Lee Jones (yes, the wig is supposed to look silly) explodes on screen as Thaddeus Stevens, a lifelong abolitionist who spits righteous, hilarious fire at his hateful enemies.

Stevens is the most adamant abolitionist of the House, and has opinions (and wit) enough to cause an uproar on the floor whenever he opens his mouth.

On film, Costabile memorably portrayed Republican abolitionist James Ashley for Steven Spielberg in LINCOLN, written by Tony Kushner.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

The story centers on a young slave named Henry «Onion» Shackleford (Jaden Smith), who skips town with abolitionist John Brown (Liev Schreiber).

Abolitionist Dr. Schultz altruistically takes Django on as an apprentice, and proceeds to teach him how to ride a horse and handle a gun.

fumes Republican congressman Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones), a vocal abolitionist and a withering orator on the floor.

Lincoln, the least passionate abolitionist (and never called himself one) ends up becoming president and must then pull a bait and switch on the pro-slavery population to get the 13th amendment passed.

Based on Northup's substantially true and only recently rediscovered 1853 abolitionist memoir, 12 Years A Slave is brutal and unflinching in its depiction of the thoroughly unglamorous lives of slaves.

The movie builds on Lincoln's real visits to Louisiana as a young man, where he saw the abuse and mistreatment of slaves and began to develop his own abolitionist sentiments.

On the positive side of the ledger we're also shown a sympathetic master (Benedict Cumberbatch) and an abolitionist (Brad Pitt).

«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.

Urged on by the abolitionist movement, the crusading MP, (played by an engaging but one - note Ioan Gruffudd) used his oratorical gifts to win a vote in the Commons.

Students create educational pamphlets including tips on how to be a contemporary abolitionist that are displayed on a bulletin board in the hallway from which others can learn.

The texts focus on different aspects of Aferican American culture and events in African American history such as the abolitionist and post-abolitionist movement.

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.

Pence's snubbing of black people happened on the same day President Donald Trump talked as if Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, writer and civil rights leader, were still alive (he died in 1895).

A mystery to himself, Victor suppresses his memories of his childhood on a plantation, and works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines.

Winner of the 2013 National Book Award in fiction, The Good Lord Bird follows the intense, violent buildup to the Civil War as viewed through the eyes of Henry, a young slave on the run with famed abolitionist John Brown.

In the service of economy, student texts on Civil War history usually sum up John Brown's famous October 16, 1859, abolitionist raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry by noting that Robert E. Lee, then a colonel commanding a modest squad of U.S. soldiers, was responsible for bringing Brown and his associates to bay.

In congressional debates in 1790 about the possible abolition of slavery, Georgia representative James Jackson attacked the abolitionist Quakers as «outright lunatics» [p. 97] and went on to say, «If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny, the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question» [p. 98].

Progress, whether it be Aminata's or the British Abolitionists,» often depends on unholy alliances.

I would be in the grand Grimké house on East Bay Street in Charleston, or in the work yard where the Grimké slaves carried on behind hidden walls, or I might be on a ship sailing north, or in the attic room of an abolitionist home in Philadelphia.

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.

She touches on the North's mixed record of high idealism, negligence and outright cruelty regarding the contraband (slaves who came within Union lines) and vividly illustrates the moral dilemma faced in war by pacifists who were also ardent abolitionists.

In two works on view, Cyrus investigates the relationship between individuals and cultures at large, drawing from an archive of African - American political and cultural history that includes abolitionist John Brown, the Black Panthers, and Blaxploitation films.

Malcolm Bailey is best known for his late 1960s polymer paintings with collaged images of slave ships and their human cargo — based on 18th century abolitionist diagrams.

The latest proof that I do not get out enough comes via this post yesterday on the Against Monopoly blog, which discusses an entire movement within the law that I did not know existed: the «copyright abolitionists.»

It is an abolitionist model premised on the idea that prostitution is inherently exploitative of women.

Frederick Douglass, famed abolitionist and author, was born near Easton and has a seven - foot tall bronze statue on the county courthouse lawn located in this town.