Sentences with phrase «over slavery»

The second great American Protestant denomination had split over slavery.

As president, he led a nation divided over slavery.

The conflict over slavery led to divisions which gave birth to some major Christian denominations.

You want blacks to get over slavery but you can't seem to get over the fact that some people still choose to confront racism.

Remember this is a culture that had to argue over slavery and other basic civil rights, so the power of evil is still prevalent.

Don't fooled by the rhetoric over the slavery bill.

She deftly summarizes the emergence of New York as the nation's economic capital, the history of debates over slavery, the emergence of the women's suffrage movement, and countless other currents, all of which shaped the 19th - century U.S. and the course of Beecher's life.

Justice Scalia is hoping that one day we will be as removed from the abortion controversy as we are today removed from past controversies over slavery and the internment of Japanese «Americans, and that this distance will be the consequence of having clearly and definitively rejected the injustice in question.

By contrast, in Louisiana — reflecting the incredible tension over slavery and existential fear of revolt — «it was a capital crime to print or distribute material, or to make a speech or display a sign, or even to have a private conversation, that might spread discontent among the free black population or insubordination among slaves.»

The challenges confronting the present generation of Africans may be unique in their own rights, however, it can not be in doubt that a concerted effort of the kind that delivered victories over slavery, oppression, subjugation and colonialism is needed today in equal measure to defeat contemporary forces such as neo-colonialism, racism, exploitation, unfair trade and poverty which are militating against our progress.

Although thousands of people have signed a petition to have shoemaker Adidas drop rapper Kanye West over his slavery comments, the German firm says it hasn't had any internal conversations about ending the partnership.

And I think of the denomination I grew up, the Southern Baptist Convention, whose own less - than - immaculate conception was rooted in unfortunate disagreements with their northern brethren over slavery.

Methodists in America were sundered in 1844 by their disagreement over slavery, when its defenders formed themselves into the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

I will get over slavery just as soon as you get over Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Little Big Horn and any other palce the white man got his a — handed to him.

Black America, after hearing you cry foul over slavery for years you should be ashamed to degrade another segment of society.

Yet this claim belies the relationship of Reformed theology to abolition in the 1800s, as well as the splits within Methodism over slavery and the prejudices that haunted early Pentecostalism.

Instead of ending the conflict over slavery by definitively resolving it, as Taney apparently hoped to do, the Court, according to Sunstein, intensified the conflict and heightened emotions.

Holt is too good a historian to deny the deep moral, political, and economic differences over slavery extension that were the heart of the matter and that ultimately caused secession and war.

The Road to Civil War, battles over Slavery turn violent in Kansas and Harper's Ferry.

Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery High - tech site from the New York Public Library.

The momentous schism between the «Southern» and «Northern» Baptists occurred in 1845 amid the growing debate over slavery and related issues.

He serve time overseas as a minister to Russia and great Britain As president, he lead a nation divided over slavery.

The Baptist was the second of the great Protestant denominations to split over the slavery issue.

The third large Protestant denomination to split over the slavery issue was the Methodist.

Reflecting on Polk's «acquisition of an empire in the Far Southwest,» he notes that this immediate triumph soon exacerbated the tensions over slavery that culminated in the Civil War.

Blacks» story is about Promised Lands, Moses, and victory over slavery and segregation.

If this is slow why can't African American's get over slavery and quit playing the race card believing they are owed something?

Those who would confuse historical change with the work of the Spirit might be due for a new round of the theological corrective that they've needed at semi-regular intervals at least since the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln reminded those locked in conflict over slavery that «the Almighty has His own purposes.»

From the colonial era, through the debates over slavery, immigration and temperance, to current social movements such as those...

When southern Baptists from Alabama and Georgia petitioned to have slaveholders appointed as convention missionaries in 1844, the convention refused to consider them, arguing that doing so would force them to take a side in the debate over slavery.

Whichever scholar has the better argument, they agree that the decision focused the debate over slavery and introduced into the already heady brew of issues involved in that debate the question of the scope of judicial power under the Constitution.

Protestantism in America was capable of producing a new spirit in missions and reform, but it could not hold the Churches together when the nation was divided over slavery.

The Churches of America could not be held together when the nation was divided over slavery.

Racism in sports has been a prevalent issue throughout the world, and in particular racism towards African - Americans has been especially bad over the 150 years ago, Americans fought a bloody Civil War (1861 - 1865) over slavery, which ended in the abolition of slavery with the 13th Amendment to the

This Lincoln does not prophesy an incontrovertible march towards the fulfillment of our preordained destiny; he sees a country, instead, torn by war and divided over slavery, a country that through any means necessary — even means that may seem anathema to the American project — must persist in moving closer to the ideal realization of itself.

He has managed to convince the parts of the country not in revolt that the war is because of and over slavery.

Una, wife of the captain of the Pequod during his pursuit of Moby Dick, narrates this combi ¬ nation adventure and love story, which reflects the period's controversies over slavery, the position of women, and the influence of religion.

Cooper was a prominent Democrat, but with the party split over slavery, he was happy to host a leading abolitionist in the newly built Great Hall.

And it may very well be that the post-war historical and empirical jurisprudence owes its origins to those hotly contested debates over slavery.