Sentences with phrase «slavery during the civil war»

The Democrats were the ones who were fighting for slavery during the Civil War, which is really no different than today if you think about it.

The New Testament authors often tell slaves to submit to their masters (Titus 2:9 - 10, 1 Timothy 6:1 - 2, Colossians 3:22 - 25, Ephesians 6:5 - 9, 1 Peter 2:18 - 24), a point not lost on those Christians who advocated for the preservation of slavery during the Civil war.

The college is named after a Pennsylvania congressman who passionately advocated for ending slavery during the Civil War...

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The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.

Christianity was on both sides of the slavery issue before and during the Civil War.

To these one might add such instances as the constitutional protection of slavery which led some radical abolitionists to repudiate that document; the massive violation of civil liberties during World War I; and the internment of Japanese - American citizens during World War II.

News and opinion on the institution of slavery made a few rare appearances in our pages before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War

The film, written by Tony Kushner and adapted from Doris Kearns Goodwin's book «Team of Rivals,» focuses on the battles within the Lincoln administration during the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.

Starring Daniel Day - Lewis in the pivotal role of Abraham Lincoln, the film tells the story of the last months of Lincoln's presidency and his mission to abolish slavery during the time of the civil war.

Set during the American Civil War in January 1865, Lincoln focuses on President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) as he attempts to abolish slavery in the USA by passing the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives.

One of the films for 2013 that I'm most intrigued by is Steve McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a free man living in New York during the mid-1800's that was kidnapped and sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War.

Although the documents are organized chronologically as the years just before or during the Civil War, the archive contains rich material for teachers and researchers interested in exploring other important themes in American History, such as slavery, immigration, ethnic groups, women's lives, reform movements, economic development, and political culture.

Many teachers I have encountered express profound concerns about providing leadership for the study and discussion of events in history such as the Holocaust, slavery, the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1950s and «60s, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

In this motivational session, Cheryl will take you on an enlightening journey through the lens of her family's sojourn from slavery to freedom during The Civil War.

We are unafraid to discuss the role of slavery in the Civil War or the imprisonment of American citizens of Japanese ethnicity during WWII.