Sentences with phrase «slave owners in»

Slave owners in the Delta were the richest moguls in the nation, and the wealthiest 10 percent of Arkansas's population owned 70 percent of its land.

The film — directed and written by Nate Parker, who also stars in the lead role — focuses on the story of Turner, the Virginia slave who led a rebellion against slave owners in 1831.

Nat Turner, who led an aborted rebellion against his slave owners in 1831, is the subject of a Pulitzer prize - winning novel by William Styron, «The Confessions of Nat Turner.»

«The Birth of a Nation» Lowdown: Nate Parker's directs and stars in this true story about a former slave that sparks a rebellion against white slave owners in Virginia in 1831.

While revenge narratives are often highly problematic in the way they represent certain aspects of society as deserving a violent death, Tarantino creates revenge narratives against characters that nobody in their right mind would sympathise with — Nazis in Inglourious Basterds and now sadistic slave owners in Django Unchained.

In America it was a little different though because the aristocratic society tended to be the slave owners in the south and they also tended to be anti monarchy but pro federal government, pro standing army, and pro collecting taxes from states.

Slavey was CONDEMNED by Jesus and the Old Testament so the slave owners in fact were worshiping the creation of man, the anti-Christ.

Slave owners in the American South did a great job of using these verses to claim that slavery was indeed «biblical.»

Maybe you prefer to teach «Christian values» such as murder and torture a la the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Holocaust, being most all the slave owners in the USA, the Salem witch trials, etc, etc. you are an ugly bigot.

After sweeping the grand jury and audience awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Nate Parker's directorial debut, in which he plays slave Nat Turner who orchestrates an uprising against slave owners in Virginia, is receiving a lot of award - season heat.

However Christian bashing and discrimination — ESPECIALLY Catholic bashing in modern society is regrettably as alive and well as a bigotted southern plantation slave owner in the 1840s.

Fans of Cumberbatch got another chance to spot their hero, who plays a sympathetic slave owner in the film.

A weaselly convict in Cowboys & Aliens, a callow and selfish writer in Ruby Sparks, a monstrous slave owner in 12 Years a Slave.

Not exact matches

As such, was He not, in so many words, calling for the land owners, slave owners and wealth hoarders to cede their ownings for re-distribution, as the Torah proclaimed should happen every 50 years?

At a climactic point, after Uncle Tom experiences a vision of the crucified Christ in preparation for his own martyrdom, the slave owner Legere begins to beat him and then suddenly realizes that «it was GOD who was standing between him and his victim.»

when he sent the letter in Philemon... he told the slave owner to «love the slave as a brother» if again, one truly loves another... they would not enslave them

But then again 80 % of this country believes in mythical slave holders, and at least 60 % believe this celestial plantation owner created them.

God's answer to slave owners taking a rod and beating their elderly female slaves (even breaking their bones as long as they didn't die «in a day or so») was there was to be NO VENGEANCE taken on them.

What does God say is the PUNISHMENT if a slave owner takes a rod and beats his elderly female slave, but she doesn't die «in a day or so»?

White, hetero, Christian land owners may have been equals in at least an abstract, moralistic context but a slave based economy can hardly be considered egalitarian.

But before she did all that, Biddy successfully sued her owners for her freedom after the family and their slaves moved to the free state of California in the 1850s.

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.»

According to God, what would be the punishment if a slave owner took a rod and broke the arms or legs of an ELDERLY FEMALE SLAVE and they didn't die in a day oslave owner took a rod and broke the arms or legs of an ELDERLY FEMALE SLAVE and they didn't die in a day oSLAVE and they didn't die in a day or so?

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth... and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it (Ex 20: 8 - 11): This Sabbath time - for - leisure encompasses everyone, not just slave - owners.

If you were active in opposing things like gay rights people a hundred years from now will remember you at least as well as we remember slave owners these days.

In particular Brown noted the damaging influence of slavery upon the children of slave owners.

In his life as a slave who was passed from one owner to another in the manner of chattel propertIn his life as a slave who was passed from one owner to another in the manner of chattel propertin the manner of chattel property.

In order for his appeal to be successful Douglass knew he would have to reconcile a certain pious regard for the well - being of slave owners with supporting the slaves» struggle for liberation.

Second, in 1755, a group of slaves had conspired and killed their owner, with servants Mark and Phillis executed for his murder.

What does the Bible say the PUNISHMENT should be if a slave owner uses a rod to break the arms and legs of an elderly woman slave and she doesn't die in a day or so?

African - Americans tend to be Baptist or Methodist because many of the slave owners were of those particular denominations, therefore that is what they grew up in.

Even without that we know what a lot of Roman men did with their younger male slaves and its obvious a slave owner isn't going to be so distraught in saving a piece of property he could easily replace unless he was in love.

(Christian slave - owners had to work somewhat harder to find scriptural justifications for holding Africans in servitude.)

And even Paul in his letter to the salve owner Philemon tells Philemon to treat his runaway slave as «a brother in Christ,» and to recieve him and have grace and mercy upon him.

But for the most part, the author admits the evils embedded in Greek civilization, among which one can easily name the constricted life of most women, the demagoguery of so many politicians, and worst of all the degradation of the slave's life (he quotes the medical writer Galen who once saw an owner poke his slave's eye out with a reed pen).

Here for instance is a speech given by the Rev. Jesse Jackson in New York and Chicago in which he compares the Christian Coalition to Nazis, slave owners, and Jim Crow segregationists.

The literature clearly establishes that a legally sanctioned law enforcement system existed in America before the Civil War for the express purpose of controlling the slave population and protecting the interests of slave owners.

Consequently, one of the greatest problems of the early church was in getting Christian slave owners and Christian slaves to treat each other as spiritual equals.

You are correct in that if the slave dies then the owner is guilty of murder.

Standing in the place of the slave owner's wife, the mammy became the «premier house servant who, though given considerable authority by her owners and admired for her expertise in domestic matters, remained captive.

Slave owners have a financial investment in their workers which leads to concern for their health.

But if the early church could survive — and in fact, thrive amidst persecution — when it included both Jews and Gentiles, zealots and tax collectors, slaves and owners, men and women, those in support of circumcision and those against it, those staunchly opposed to eating food that had been sacrificed to idols and those who felt it necessary, then I think modern American Christianity can survive when it includes democrats and republicans, biblical literalists and biblical non-literalists, Calvinists and Arminians... so long as we're not rooting for one another's demise.

I can't speak to the other eight but Tyson Foods and WalMart are no more Christian than slave - owning plantation owners were in the antebellum South.

The moment I realized I couldn't win a «proof text» war with a slave - owner was the moment I realized that in discussions like these, we can't rely on a few Bible verses pulled from their context — not when lives are at stake.

Indeed, one law in Exodus, intended to make the lot of slaves more tolerable, goes only so far as to declare the owner liable to punishment if, in beating a slave, he kills him outright, whereas if the wounded slave «continue a day or two» the owner escapes penalty, «for he is his money.

The word correctly represents the social fact of male supremacy in the Hebrew family, where the man was owner of his household — wives, children, slaves, herds, and properties.

What Professor Whitehead says about the Greeks, however, applies in large measure to the Hebrews and to the early Christians — «The Athenians were slave - owners: but they seem to have humanized the institution.

Sandford (whose name was actually Sanford), acting on behalf of his sister who was Dred Scott's owner, injected into the litigation the question whether any black person, free or slave, could be a citizen of the United States, and he directly challenged the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which forbade slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36 ° 30».

In 1833 through pressure from Evangelicals, both Nonconformist and Anglican, an act of Parliament abolished slavery in the British Empire, with monetary compensation to the slave - ownerIn 1833 through pressure from Evangelicals, both Nonconformist and Anglican, an act of Parliament abolished slavery in the British Empire, with monetary compensation to the slave - ownerin the British Empire, with monetary compensation to the slave - owners.

If we look at verses 26 - 27, which may well have been at one time connected with verses 20 - 21, we will understand that in Israel the first principle became and remained dominant: if the slave's owner should inflict the loss of an eye or even a tooth upon the slave, the slave must be given his freedom in compensation!