Sentences with phrase «outlawed slavery»

The film borrows its title from the 13th amendment to the constitution, which outlawed slavery but left a loophole.

The state legislature outlawed slavery in 1839.

This novel shows both sides of the slavery issue, what both white and black abolitionists went through as well as how blacks were treated in the Northern states that had already outlawed slavery.

This novel shows both sides of the slavery issue, what both white and black abolitionists went through, as well as how slaves were treated in the northern states that had already outlawed slavery (Diane S).

But the decree led to constitutional amendments that outlawed slavery completely and recognized men and women who had been freed as equal citizens.

The 14th outlawed slavery.

A film about the passage of a change to a legal document generates less intrigue, even if the revision in question outlawed slavery and came alongside the end of the longest and deadliest war fought on American soil.

I had hoped for more information along the lines of Britain outlawed slavery in 18xx, France in 18xx, -LSB-...] Jamaica became a nation in 18xx, Barbuda in 18xx, before / after slavery was outlawed and therefore likely does / doesn't have standing.

Unfortunately, some foolish people outlawed slavery... in a more enlightened age, we cd enslave homosexuals in the service of heterosexuals....

Sometimes, this approach to leadership required Lincoln to make deals he was initially uncomfortable with to gain the support of legislators, notably to win passage of the constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery,» he writes.

150 years ago this month, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to outlaw slavery in the Southern states.

It took nearly a century to outlaw slavery.

It is technically legal, though obviously immoral and inadvisable to amend the Constitution to remove the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery.

Instead, Spielberg and writer Tony Kushner («Munich»)-- drawing on a book by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin — delight in the backroom wrangling and public rhetoric that in 1865 led to the 13th Amendment to the US constitution, outlawing slavery.

Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, 2012) Focussing on the fight to pass the 13th amendment outlawing slavery, Lincoln, in the brilliant performance by Daniel Day - Lewis, illuminates the man and the qualities of his leadership that carried the nation through a devastating civil war.

Finally, our critics continue their Oscar season coverage by discussing Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's historical drama about the final months of Abraham Lincoln's life and his efforts during this time to outlaw slavery through passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.

When he is initially abducted in Washington, D.C., en route to the South, the omniscient camera leaves his cell and looks over toward Capitol Hill to condemn a government still 24 years from outlawing slavery.

Centering on Abraham Lincoln's attempt to pass the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery in the waning days of the Civil War, the movie is dialogue - heavy, focusing on legislative process and party politics as Lincoln and his aides try to win the necessary votes from both fellow Republicans and Democrats across the aisle.

There are several scenes we've already seen in at least one previous trailer, but this also includes some new moments of Lincoln (Daniel Day Lewis) and his argumentative cabinet figuring out how to get the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution — outlawing slavery — through the system without derailing efforts to end the bloody Civil War.

Not exact matches

When slavery was outlawed in 1835, the city began to crumble.

Slavery was originally outlawed in the west because the Christians said they could not own or enslave other Christians.

When the Bible was used to justify slavery and then it was outlawed, people said «Oh, well the Bible just got misinterpreted.

A faith that until it was outlawed endorsed both polygamy and discrimination (no blacks held priesthood until civil rights movement) not to mention slavery until it was outlawed.

In fact while the Constitution contained a clause that provided for the outlawing of the slave trade for a twenty year period, that document also made concessions to slavery; Article IV, Section 2, and of course the «federal ratio.»

The inst.tution of slavery was outlawed in the British Empire in 1833 and implemented in 1834.

Use history and reason (for example, it was William Wilberforce, a devout Christian, who sacrificed his fortune and his health to have slavery outlawed; and for non-Christians who claim all Christians are intolerant, you are painting with too broad a brush, and opening yourselves up, alas, to the same charge.

Today slavery is outlawed in the Caribbean, and both the Dominican Republic and Haitian governments deny that they practice it.

Some of those nations weren't nations until after slavery was outlawed.

Abolition of slavery, votes for women, legal aid, NHS, social security, state pension, abolition of child labour, legalisation of abortion, equal pay for women, outlawing racial discrimination, legalising homosexuality, civil partnerships, free secondary education, no - fault divorce, minimum wage, paid holidays, child benefit.

Taking place entirely over the first four months of 1865 (and predominantly just January), the film details President Lincoln's uphill quest to get slavery outlawed quickly and definitively.

Though Howie is a considerably crueller master than Bass, when Lee finds out they're heading for Mexico — where slavery is outlawed — he abruptly changes allegiances.

According to the article, Lincoln will focus on «the last four months of the president's life and the political strategizing he undertook at the close of the Civil War to ensure that slavery would be forever outlawed.»

A Confederate delegation, led by Alexander Stephens (Jackie Earle Haley), is headed for D.C. to negotiate peace — something it won't do if slavery is outlawed.

Lalu, nicknamed «China Polly» by the cowboys who can not be bothered to pronounce her name, is saved from prostitution but then becomes Hong King's slave, until her husband's white partner, a genial alcoholic named Charlie (Chris Cooper), explains to her that slavery has been outlawed.

He wants to use Kemp's cases to stir up public sentiment against slavery and to set a legal precedent that would effectively outlaw slave - holding in England.

When sexual slavery is outlawed, most of the rational world rejoices.

He meets rebels, outlaws and sorcerers; follows the trail of a vicious Georgian revolt; and ponders a love affair that changed the face of slavery.

Its infamous role as the largest slave market in Eastern Africa meant that at its peak an estimated 50,000 slaves passed through the island each year until slavery was outlawed in 1873.

This is considered one of Benton's best works, but like his previous murals, caused controversy for his inclusion of images of slavery, the outlaw Jesse James and the corrupt politician Tom Pendergast.