Sentences with phrase «stand against slavery»

Where do you think the Catholic church would be today it they had taken a strong stand against slavery or military conflict?

The Churches could easily stand against slavery in the days when nobody defended it, but now that it was the basis of the Southern economic empire what would they do?

In the past the Church as such took a stand against slavery and felt called upon to speak out against child labor even when such speaking hurt profits.

What church took a stand against slavery in the South, in an unpopular area?

Would I have been an abolitionist, actively and publicly standing against slavery and then voicing strong opposition to the eminently wicked Jim Crow laws that ensued after the Civil War?

Not exact matches

In the years leading up to the schism, southern Baptists desired to make slavery a non-issue, while abolitionist forces in the North (and among northern Baptists) desired the convention to take a moral stand against it.

They have empowered black people to stand up against slavery and prejudice in this country.

His aim was to make clear the evils of slavery, to get people converted to oppose it as a sin, and to get them to take a definite stand against it.

This booklet intends inspire and equip young people to take a stand against the continuation of slavery and injustice in the world today.

Beyond the Townsend estate, the known world also unravels: low - paid white patrollers stand watch as slave «speculators» sell free black people into slavery, and rumors of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years.

Some factions will fight this, as is the case in Nigeria, where the Boko Haram extremists, whose very name (the translation is «Western education is a sin») stands against a basic right, are threatening to sell hundreds of kidnapped schoolgirls into slavery.