Sentences with phrase «slave trade in»

A look at what's there in English brought up first of all, appropriately enough, given the recent 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, a 1772 monograph by Anthony Benezet, «Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants: with an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature, and lamentable effects.»

The world ended the slave trade in the 19th century and apartheid in the 20th.

For example, he depicted both the transatlantic slave trade and Egyptian slave trade in his works, references to the TV show «Amos «n» Andy,» known for its anti-black stereotypes, and an exploration of what it meant to be an African American policeman.

2007 witnessed major exhibitions in British museums and galleries to mark the anniversary of the 1807 abolition act — 1807 Commemorated [60] 2008 marks the 201st anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire.

Naming the Money (2004) which also appeared as part of the V&A exhibition, Uncomfortable Truths (2007), Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Service (2007) and Talking on Corners Speaking in Tongues (2007) were all central to the cultural events surrounding the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain

Others are descendants of the historical Trans - Saharan trade in peoples and / or, and after the Arab invasions of North Africa in the 7th century, descendants of slaves from the Arab Slave Trade in North Africa.

(Of course he would eventually find Livingstone, reach international fame, then return to Africa to help form the Congo Free State, which, in turn, led to one of the world's largest slave trade in history.

Michael Apted's 2006 historical biopic Amazing Grace, about William Wilberforce's campaign to end the slave trade in the British Empire, far more effectively expressed the political mood of the era as well as exploring how Wilberforce's private and public life affected each other.

His latest film explores the brutal history of the slave trade in the USA.

Michael Apted's impassioned history lesson, about crusading reformer William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) and his dream to outlaw the slave trade in the British Empire, begins with William Pitt the Younger (Benedict Cumberbatch) poised to become England's youngest Prime Minister.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a work of great majesty; The Proposition is as searing as anything that came before it; while Tarantino fused his love of the genre and contempt for the slave trade in Django Unchained, which managed to be both incendiary and huge amounts of fun; The Homesman and Meek's Cutoff gave the western a stirring feminist spin; and last week's Jauja (a similarly Danish - American mash - up, this time South American) played with genre tropes to produce something surreal and unforgettable.

Slave trade in Eastern Europe gradually faded, as the control exercised by the emerging structure of European states became stronger.

Otherwise, slave trade in the Crimea and Volga regions was extensive, and tens of thousands of people were sold into slavery every year.

The routes of slave trade in Eastern Europe in the medieval and pre-modern period extended all the way to the Caspian Sea and Central Asia.

Though Parliament abolished the Atlantic slave trade in 1807, the law took years to put into effect.

Dr. Nsoh urged Ghanaians not to compare his intended tagging project to the slave trade in colonial times because «they [colonial masters] used very crude and unorthodox ways, very crude and inhumane means to arrest people and mark them... but it is not in this respect that we are doing that.»

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He paved the way for the permanent abolition of slave trade in Africa in the years ahead.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

Both the war with imperial France and the slave trade are directly relevant to Austen's moral universe, for the Royal Navy her brothers joined was complicit ¯ and deeply so ¯ in keeping France at bay and the slave trade in the New World flourishing.

Touches of the wider world sometimes impinge on Austen's peaceful outposts — Wickham, a soldier, plays a prominent role in Pride and Prejudice, there are passing references to the British colonies and the slave trade in Mansfield Park, and the British navy's preservation of England in the Napoleonic Wars is duly noted in Persuasion.

Nor would she object to the evangelical Christian William Wilberforce opposing the slave trade in England on the basis of his faith.

Pagels points out how promiscuity and immorality in the late Roman Empire resulted in widespread infanticide and abortion, as well as a slave trade in child prostitutes who were treated, in Justin's phrase, «like herds of oxen, goats, or sheep.»

All races were subject to Slavery back then and even up to and during slave trade in the 18th century.

Such misuse of reason, after all, was what gave rise to the slave trade in the first place and to many other social evils, not least the totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century.

Reports of illegal slave trades in the Congo and wrong doings of King Leopold bring John and Jane back to their childhood homes, but their return is all a ruse set up by Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz), an emissary for King Leopold.

Built by Fermin Mundaca after he «retired» from pirating and slave trading in 1858, the hacienda was surrounded by magnificent gardens including the solar clock garden called «The Rose of the Winds».

From the Far East to Victorian London to the slave trading in the Caribbean to the Terror of Revolutionary France.

Not exact matches

The campaign to abolish the trans - Atlantic slave trade began more than two centuries ago, and forced labour is prohibited by two 20th - century conventions — the more recent International Labour Organization's Abolition of Forced Labour Convention was in 1957 — and both were almost universally ratified.

It started with «negative screening»; he gives the example of Quakers, centuries ago, vetoing the use of their funds to finance ships involved in the slave trade.

The fact corrupt men used to the Bible to justify their cruelty in the slave trade is no different than Hitler using the Bible to abuse Jews.

The Mission tells the story of a Jesuit mission in 1740s Argentina, and the relationship between a priest (Jeremy Irons) and a slave - trading mercenary (Robert De Niro).

In a world where there are more slaves alive today than ever before, in a world where one million children are sold or stolen into the child sex trade every year, there must be an answeIn a world where there are more slaves alive today than ever before, in a world where one million children are sold or stolen into the child sex trade every year, there must be an answein a world where one million children are sold or stolen into the child sex trade every year, there must be an answer.

After suffering for decades to create pathways for the gospel in Africa and to combat the East African slave trade, David Livingstone said, «I never made a sacrifice.»

Advocating for the end of the modern slave trade, she hopes to open a small intentional community retreat for exploited youth in Canada.

These sentiments, common place in the homosexual rights movement, could easily have been those of slaveholders and those involved in the slave trade, and as such they would strike us as ludicrous.

In the post-colonial, post-Atlantic slave trade world, it is crucial that peoples who have historically benefited from the sale and plunder of black women's bodies, justifying those practices with their readings of scripture learn to hear and the scriptures in our voices and through our eyeIn the post-colonial, post-Atlantic slave trade world, it is crucial that peoples who have historically benefited from the sale and plunder of black women's bodies, justifying those practices with their readings of scripture learn to hear and the scriptures in our voices and through our eyein our voices and through our eyes.

A reader who wishes to know, for instance, why Article 1, section 9, clause 1 prohibited Congress from making any alteration until 1808 in «the Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit» can turn to Volume III and find 28 contemporary documents on slavery and the slave trade.

Adam is an African - American who is nearing completion of his doctorate dealing with religious forms in the Trans - Atlantic Slave Trade.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

@@@@ Sean p.OK none of your people came on a slave ships the blacks in America are Hebrew Isrealite the song kombiyah is Hebrew not African and you read Deuteronomy chapter 28:68 its talking about the transatlantic slave trade not the first physical real Egypt in north Africa look at Washington DC look at the Washington monument that is not European that's from first Egypt USA is second spiritual Egypt

The latest data estimates 45.8 million people are in modern slavery today worldwide, and impacting change in such a lucrative and exploitative system of oppression feels a bit like fighting the Transatlantic Slave Trade of the 1800's.

@@@@@ JEEZ yeah and ABRAHAM ISSAC YACOOB AND KING DAVID KING SOLOMON YAHSHUYAH MESSIAH APOSTLE PAUL JONAH where born and raised in Europe in the European Vatican eating pork drinking animal blood eating sunny side running half cooked eggs with hotsauce and black truffles and eating shellfish yeah you people can't stand the truth and slavery never happen in USA and the black inventors of USA stole every invention huh and the European Vatican stop the Transatlantic slave route trade too no where so please explain too me WHY MY BLACK PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD when they have mixed children they all come out BLACK DNA don't lie VATICAN DO LIE

The slave trade and colonialism ended, not because there was any conversion or improvement in western Christianity or democracy, but because slavery and colonialism ceased to be profitable enterprises due to improved technology.

For 20 years, Wilberforce campaigned in the parliament against the slave trade until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of slave trade until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of trade until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of Slave Trade Act of Trade Act of 1807.

In 1993 the Organization of African Unity called for some form of restitution from the U.S. and from those European countries that were involved in the slave tradIn 1993 the Organization of African Unity called for some form of restitution from the U.S. and from those European countries that were involved in the slave tradin the slave trade.

Carey and his fellow missionaries were fierce in their criticism of the slave trade which had reached disgraceful proportions in their time.

Trading legalism for pietism is really no improvement, we are no longer under the power of the law, and no longer slaves to sin, we still can and do fall short of perfection, in fact, Romans 7 gives us a pretty clear picture of the kind of abject failure that results from trying to live a pious life under our own power.

They spoke of «the miseries which had entailed on them by the slave trade» and» the duty of making some recompense for the injuries and wrongs, which by our participation in that nefarious traffic, we had inflicted on Africa...» This position led evangelicals to argue that Britain's role in Africa should be that of guardian and protector of the people.

First, Wilberforce did not abolish the West African slave trade because he came to a different view from Paul, but because he held the same view as Paul (not least as expressed in 1 Timothy 1:10, which forbids enslaving people), a point which is clear from his writings.