Sentences with phrase «story of the abolition»

The story of abolition is a complicated one, as Stark's investigation attests.
He has previously served on the board of London's National Portrait Gallery, where his is currently working on an exhibition for the gallery that will explore the story of the abolition of slavery through 18th - and 19th - century portraits.

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It is to be hoped that Amazing Grace is not the only, or the last, cinematic celebration of 200th anniversary of abolition, for there are more stories to tell, more imaginatively.
Kushner and Spielberg largely refrain from showing the famous speeches and give us the political schemer, the persuader, the teller of bawdy barnyard stories, the gentle father and husband, and the fiercely insistent leader who will not accept a Confederate surrender without the absolute abolition of slavery.
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