Sentences with word «slaveholder»

Lawrence Grossman's review of Saul S. Friedman's book on Jews and the American Slave Trade (Briefly Noted, August / September) prompts me to note three aspects of that effort not previously covered in the literature on this newest wrinkle in the libeling of the Jewish people: (1) The number of slaveholders of Jewish descent was very low for the simple demographic fact that Jewish settlements in the South were few and located in mostly urban enclaves.

At his sloppiest he asserts the genetic link simply by referring to bigots and slaveholders as «Christians.»

Since all of us are in some way the beneficiaries of cheap fossil fuel, tackling climate change has been like trying to build a movement against yourself — it's as if the gay - rights movement had to be constructed entirely from evangelical preachers, or the abolition movement from slaveholders.

The book, which highlighted the disconnect between Christian tenants and the actions of white slaveholders, became a bestseller across the United States and launched his career as an abolitionist...

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.

Cornegy publicly opposed to the city's contractor of choice for the NYPD's body camera program, and last year joined with BLAC co-chairman Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres in calling for the New York City Housing Authority to take the names of slaveholders off of its developments.

Even Wood can not help noticing Christianity's «supreme usefulness to people of contrary viewpoints» — including slaveholders and abolitionists.

As Missouri's John Coalter would later recall saying: «If you abhor slavery, how long before you abhor slaveholders?

Slavery is humanely regulated in the legal portions of the Old Testament, and in the epistles of the New Testament slaveholders are exhorted to show kindness to slaves.

In Brazil, he visited a town in Sao Paulo state called Americana where former slaveholders from America relocated after the Civil War.

Many other blacks fought involuntarily; they were slaves, and slaveholders often sent their slaves to war in place of themselves.

They instruct that most slaveholders were good to their slaves, the Klu Klux Klan used the burning cross to fight moral depravity, and that «dinosaurs and humans were definitely on the earth at the same time and may have even lived side by side within the past few thousand years.»

Perkins - Valdez's striking debut sheds light on one of the more complex issues of the so - called peculiar institution: the way that some wealthy slaveholders made female slaves into pampered mistresses — and even took them on vacation.

Slavery, a cancer that takes many forms, is the source of complex relationships in this story of black slaveholders in antebellum Virginia.

Robertson, dogged seeker of truth with a fertile imagination, disinters the secrets surrounding the life and rebellion of black revolutionary Vesey and reflects on the reasons South Carolina slaveholders found it necessary to obscure the historical record concerning him.

Does it get a pass because it's NPCs, or does it make you uncomfortable to see your player potentially cast as a heroic slaveholder?

And just two weeks ago he penned a letter with Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, the other BLAC co-chair, calling on the New York City Housing Authority to strip the names of slaveholders off eight of its developments.

He eschews the term «Jacksonian democracy,» judging Jackson to be an opponent of real democracy because of his resolute support of slaveholders and his opposition to «the inclusion of non-whites and women within the American civil polity.»

Slaves organized a revolt against white slaveholders, taking up arms to seize Orleans territory in a quest for their own emancipation, but also to end slavery.

With regard to their attitude toward the Southern Christian, many Northern churchmen looked upon the whole South as a mission field to be won from the slaveholders.

Douglass saw first hand how becoming a slaveholder could alter one's existence.

There is here an implicit distinction between the apparent self - interest of the slaveholder and the real self - interest of the slaveholder which allowed Douglass to maintain that it was genuinely in the best interest of the slaveholder that slavery be abolished.

Slavery was not perpetrated just by traders and slaveholders.

Of course, by refusing to consider the slaveholders for appointment, the Triennial Convention adopted a de facto anti-slavery stance.

But the slaveholders were wrong 150 years ago, and the gay - bashers are wrong today.

The revivalist Charles Finney refused communion to slaveholders.

A slaveholder who wished to maintain the Union, Tyler chaired the parley, but later denounced its proposals as inadequate for the South and thus favored secession at the Virginia state convention.

How did he show his blessings to the poor slaves at the hands of «Christian» slaveholders?

They asked outright if the board would appoint a slaveholder as missionary, and they were told no!

Suggestions for any radical solution of the problem, such as emancipation, had never been seriously considered, and now that slaveholders had the cotton gin, and cotton ruled as king of their economic life, they felt that they had to maintain slavery.

God does not make us His property in Jesus Christ to show that He can do with us what He wills, as the slaveholder stamps His name upon His slaves.

In the wake of Charlottesville, officials at SUNY New Paltz have been looking into whether they should rebrand several campus buildings named for the town's founding families, who were slaveholders.

So there must be something wrong with the Constitution - and these people lump together respect for Constitutional Freedoms with the rest of the Constitution, which was written by slaveholders.

The issue that the Texans were slaveholders and the Mexicans weren't seems to be washed over.

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.

In pagan times, for example, if you became a slave, it was your bad luck - no slaveholder needed to pretend his slaves were less than human in order to justify keeping them.

Sarah Paulson, as the slaveholder's wife, makes clear an evil woman's psychological sleight of hand: She hides her wickedness to herself by imagining herself injured by her husband's lust for a young slave.

«It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives,» Northrup wrote in his memoir.

The female characters — slave (Aunjanue Ellis) and slaveholder (Penelope Ann Miller) alike — are modest and demure, consistently submitting to the wishes of their menfolk.

In short, the founders, as we know, lived in a slaveholding culture and many, like Jefferson, were themselves slaveholders.