Sentences with phrase «watch over slaves»

«Surveillance is nothing new to black folks,» she said, referring to laws intended to keep close watch over slaves in 18th - century America.

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As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

If a father, endowed with a remnant of moral sensibility, desired to spare his sons this tragedy, he had to act before it happened, employing slaves, who would watch over the son like hawks.

Angels Watching Over Me by Michael Phillips — 4 stars, 232 reviews — Two young Southern girls, one the daughter of a plantation owner and one the daughter of a slave, barely survive the onset of the Civil War and the loss of both their families.

This is an excellent eye - opening response to the bald - faced commission chasers» mercenary attitudes, and, more important, for the newbies coming into this business whom value future dollars (in their own pockets) over being a well - rounded, empathetic, understanding - of - human - nature professional (a warm - hearted human being vs a cold - hearted, calculating, statistics - watching slave to monthly sales boards).