Sentences with word «slaveowner»

Twenty years ago Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and before the largest crowd of witnesses for America that Washington had ever seen he talked about his dream — «a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.»

But since the Bible speaks of punishment for slaveowners who seriously injure a slave, including punishment for the owner AND freedom for the slave, I'll guess you haven't given any serious time to reading the Bible of which we speak.

He was a tailor by trade, but requests from slaveowners to sew clothing for slaves caused Woolman to ask for «time to consider the proposal [and] pray in silence, seeking a resolution true to his principles»» a resolution that would balance his dual concern for the slave's comfort and the master's spiritual fate.

Where slaveowners Christians, and the slaves not?

That the Ravens were very close to signing him, before his GF accused Ray and Steve of having a slave, slaveowner relationship.

The blood of white slaveowners still pumps through the the veins of black descendents.

That woman (Aunjanue Ellis) becomes Nat's wife and it is the mistreatment of her by the racist southern slaveowners that partially motivates Nat to hatch a plan for a stealthy nighttime uprising, recognizing that the African slaves outnumber the whites by a considerable margin.

For their part, Ulysses» staunchly abolitionist parents were appalled that their son intended to marry the daughter of Missouri slaveowners, and they refused to attend the wedding.

Louverture held many views modern progressives find hard to endorse: his loyalty to the empire, his defense of the plantation system, his willingness to forgive former slaveowners.

And what of the slaveowners and segregationists who used to latch onto Genesis 9:25 to justify slavery?

An executive or legislature might try to ignore it, but a slaveowner could seek relief in court, and the court would be bound to follow Dred Scott.

«When a slaveowner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished., But if the slave survives a day or two, there is no punishment; for the slave is the owner's property.

When a slaveowner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished.

When asked how he, a lifelong opponent of racism, could admire a slaveowner like Thomas Jefferson, Stone answered, «Because history is tragedy, not melodrama.»

It's like in the days of slavery: if you went to a cotton plantation and asked the slaves and slaveowners who they thought made better slaveowners and better slaves, you would EXPECT them to say, «White people are better slave owners and Africans make better slaves.»

She carries, as he put it, the «blood of slaves and slaveowners».

Schultz employs Django to spot his former slaveowners, wanted criminals according to the legal papers Schultz removes from his dandy coat pocket as if it were bottomless.

The 37 - year - old Virginian worked for seven years to raise the $ 10 million it took to depict the bloodiest slave rebellion in U.S. history, a violent conflagration that left 60 slaveowners and family members slaughtered and 200 slaves killed in retaliation.

The most thrilling moment in the film for me is what Tarantino himself described as kind of a film within a film, when Django and Broomhilda are escaping from their slaveowner, running free, together.