Sentences with phrase «slave masters fathered»

As slave masters fathered children on slave women, lighter skinned offspring were produced and treated more favorably.

d) slave masters fathered children who were termed b.ast.ards.

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Aristotle wrote that «the smallest and primary parts of the household are master and slave, husband and wife, father and children» and devoted several sections of his Politics to the importance of free men ruling over their wives, children, and slaves.

Douglass wrote a letter to the man who had once been his slave master in which he said that God is the God of all, the God of master and slave alike, that God is «our common Father and Creator» (MBMF 427).

And yet it's hard to see how Peter and Pauls» remix of the household codes, when compared to the most popular of the day, could be read as anything but profoundly subversive, given the high value they place on wives, slaves, and children, and the way they hold ruling men accountable to a heavenly Master and a heavenly Father.

Our last subject in the race for the 36th Council District seat is the Rev. Conrad Tillard, formerly known as Conrad Muhammad, formerly known as Conrad X. Reverend Tillard first came to public attention as the chief youth minister of the Nation of Islam, and then the minister of Harlem's famed Mosque No. 7, the former seat of Malcolm X. Reverend Tillard made some conventionally controversial remarks against white devils and Jewish slave masters, etc. from that esteemed perch, was later stripped of his ministry under a cloud of suspicion, and then underwent a second Damascene moment when he left the NOI and returned to the faith of his fathers, receiving baptism by the Reverend Calvin Butts.