Sentences with phrase «slave state»

Instead of suits against the one - time slave states, one could turn to the descendants of the owners of slaves, and sue them.

Savage explained to him that if the South won the war, they intended to form a new Republic, the «Golden Circle,» which would form a powerful association of slave states as far north as the Mason - Dixon line and south to Mexico and Central America.

That cultural chasm grew deeper as the territories of Kansas and Nebraska were settled, sparking a struggle for their future as slave states or free states.

Student 2: After learning about Harriet Tubman during social studies, she made a 3D model of the Underground Railroad, complete with a map showing a route from slave state to free state.

The United States remained a union, but one with slave states and slavery tolerating states.

The Southern slave states welcomed deflation, because they sought low prices for their cotton exports, and also opposed northern industry with its protectionist policies and anti-slave politics.

The stability of the former slave state was tenuous at best while the gold - masked Sons of the Harpy murdered citizens and Unsullied alike, a situation that could worsen with Queen Daenerys skipping town (and escaping assassination) by taking flight on one of her dragons.

The «Missouri Compromise of 1820 was that there would be no more new slave states north of 36 30» north latitude (the southern boundary of Missouri).

The Senate stood as the bulwark and source of the Slave Power — a power that required admission of slave states to the Union to preserve its national primacy.

Because Missouri was a slave state and the Mormons were anti slavery and it made the slave owners there nervous that so many anti slave (Mormon) voters were moving in.

Many Jayhawkers regarded all Missourians, residents of a slave state, as enemies regardless of the individual views held.

Rather, it needed patient reflection on the entirety of the Scriptures; it required expert knowledge of historical circumstances of ancient Near Eastern and Roman slave systems as well as of the actually existing conditions in the slave states; and it demanded that sophisticated interpretative practice replace a commonsensically literal approach to the sacred text.»

In 1845, the same year that Texas entered the union as a slave state, a group of Baptists in the South formed the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

This is a supremist ideology whose intent is never to co-exist with any non-Muslims but to rule over those they «allow» to exist in a slave state - hence dhimiitude.

The 1850s Democrats passed a law saying that if Kansas chose to be a slave state, it could become a state with only one - third the population that would be required if it chose to be a free state.

(It was likely Lincoln acquiring the mandate without getting a single vote from a slave state, that triggered session.

With the slave states back in the union, it'll be a lot tougher to get the right percentage of votes, so Lincoln encounters a «ticking clock» to change the law.

The statement implies a troubling teleological attitude towards American exceptionalism, as though slavery's abolition was somehow inevitable and that the Founding Fathers, many of whom were slaveholders, never intended for the country to be a slave state.

As he becomes something of a father figure to the scared, brow - beaten boy, Will struggles with his conscience while leading Nate from freedom back to the slave states of the South.

Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father — an ardent pacifist — and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state.