Sentences with word «slaveholding»

In 1845, members at a regional convention being held in Augusta, Georgia created the SBC, following a split from northern Baptists over the issue of forbidding churches in slaveholding states from sending missionaries to spread the gospel.

They pointed out that slavery was practiced by the people of Israel and regulated by God, and that Jesus never said a word against slaveholding.

(Consider also, if you want, how quickly the Cherokees transformed themselves into good [slaveholding sometimes], agrarian Americans, with their really deep traditions both adapting and sometimes disappearing.)

Few capture the kidnapping, slaveholding theology of American Christianity better than former slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass:

He notes the irony that the Confederacy, in order to save republicanism as it had come to understand it, transformed its own government into a more vigorous and more comprehensive agent of control than Washington had ever been when it seemed to threaten so directly the liberties of South Carolina and its sister slaveholding states.

The Southerners still were not certain of the good faith of their Northern brethren, so they proposed a Southern slaveholding pastor for an appointment as a home missionary.

Anthony Benezet wrote and spoke against it and persuaded a number of outstanding people to oppose slaveholding.

I bagged Thomas Jefferson,» the term - limited Mr. Barron declares, calling Mr. Jefferson a «slaveholding pedophile.»

The South, voting as a bloc on measures that challenged slaveholding interests and augmented by defections from Free State Senators with Southern sympathies, was able to tally majorities.

John Woolman traveled from meeting to meeting among the Quakers to lay on their hearts the conviction of the sin of slaveholding.

In their early days the Methodists had stringent rules against slaveholding, but by the early nineteenth century they had shelved those regulations.

«Many paternalist masters in the founding generation rationalized their slaveholding with the idea of «tacit consent.

Throughout the period of slavery, as numbers of diaries and journals reveal, many across the barriers separating the slaveholding from the enslaved knew each other as friends.

«I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women - whipping, cradle - plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

I love the pure, peaceable and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women - whipping, cradle - plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land... We have men - stealers for ministers, women - whippers for missionaries and cradle - plunderers for church members.

It was only natural that they would attempt to reply to the accusation that slaveholding was a sin in itself.

Could a slaveholding bishop who had to preside at conferences all over the nation preside at a New England conference?

The sculpture depicts a young slave, who recently ran away from the slaveholding South, with her child, telling her story to three men, William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry Ward Beecher, all noted abolitionists.

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

When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal actions of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, — when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.

A slaveholding man sued his bride for divorce because the child she gave birth to was not his.