Sentences with phrase «when slavery»

«While most African - American children's literature focuses on either slavery or the Civil Rights movement, Moses gives middle grade readers a glimpse of a time when slavery was recent enough to weigh heavily on the minds and hearts of African Americans, yet a more equitable future was also imaginable.»

At a time when slavery is still practiced and black entertainers are expected to clown in minstrel shows, Juba, as he is called, wants to be known for his talent.

The film focuses on the fact that when slavery was abolished with the passage of the 13th amendment, prisoners were excluded, creating a culture of forced labor in correctional institutions.

Can a nation suffer damages or injustices if it didn't exist when slavery was legal?

Just when slavery seemed to be coming under control something happened that changed the entire picture!

Athiest like to point only to Duet or Leviticus because they state the laws that were to be used during that period when slavery in almost all nations was legal.

LC did you really just say that because it was written (by men) at a time when slavery was ok according to god?

The religious use of biblical language about masters and servants and slaves and redemption and bought with a price and bondservant and lord and service and unquestioning obedience, etcetera, all come from an age when slavery was an assumed, acceptable and even enviable way of life.

Or when slavery was in full swing... that morality?

Then tell us when SLAVERY was a good idea.

When slavery was outlawed in 1835, the city began to crumble.

Not exact matches

IT was 2007 when Hancock Prospecting chairman and director Gina Rinehart read a harrowing story about Cambodian prostitution and sex slavery.

He added, «When you hear about slavery for 400 years... like, you was there for 400 years and it's all of y» all?!

During a TMZ segment two days ago, West drew widespread criticism when he said, «When you hear about slavery for 400 years... for 400 yewhen he said, «When you hear about slavery for 400 years... for 400 yeWhen you hear about slavery for 400 years... for 400 years?

«When you hear about slavery for 400 years — 400 years?

When talking to people about human trafficking, he has them imagine that their own son, daughter or grandchild could be walking home from school and be kidnapped, bound, gagged, driven halfway across the country and sold into slavery in a split second.

Kanye West, the legendary rap artist, provoked controversy this week when he said in an interview: «When you hear about slavery for 400 yewhen he said in an interview: «When you hear about slavery for 400 yeWhen you hear about slavery for 400 years.

Students don't realize that, when they take a government or private loan, they're potentially selling themselves into financial slavery.

When it is fake, there is slavery; when it is honest, there is freeWhen it is fake, there is slavery; when it is honest, there is freewhen it is honest, there is freedom.

It's the «word of God» when it's a section / version that they want to shove down your throat, but God help you (ironic usage intended) if you point out the numerous sections condoning murder, slavery, torture, subjugation of women, etc..

When Lincoln was working to get rid of slavery, people were scared it would mess up their way of life.

While i do nt know about the comments you claim, He seems to be a paradoxical man when it came to slavery.

If you think that is wrong then you are at direct odds with your god who condones slavery, a.k.a outlining when it's acceptable and not punishing people who do own slaves.

ME II beat me to it, but it's unbelievable that you are trying to rationalize slavery, regardless the of «type» and this is why we view god as immoral while you still think god can be moral and outline when it's acceptable to own a slave.

The answer is when He commanded to love thy neighbor as thyself, it was somehow tacitly implied that He condemned slavery.

In addition, slavery was addressed in the old testament when moses led the israelites to freedom.

It's only by convincing his followers that his immoral acts are moral that you come to believe that we are somehow misunderstanding gods evil acts and that if we only read the bible again we'd somehow see that when he killed all the first born of egypt, or impregnated a married woman and left her with a kid or that he's fine with slavery under certain conditions as good things.

You can see the progressiveness in dealing with slavery that would eventually lead to its demise long after the fact, but you remain blind to the same progressiveness when it comes to gender equality and insist that we should progress no further than where we were at say in New Testament times.

It «s ok to quote word for word if it perpetuates more belief, but when confronted with an immoral subject like slavery, then it should not be taken literally.

God's «morals» come in handy for Christian h0mophobes looking for an EXCUSE for their prejudice, but are ignored when any discussions come up that are embarrassing like support for slavery and discrimination against the handicapped.

When you take the humanity out of the reasoning, thats all slavery was....

The laws of Exodus, Deuteronomy, etc. came about at a time when God's people had been freed from slavery in Egypt.

when can we be expecting that binding official apology for your «church's» support of slavery, racial etiquette, and Jim Crow?

In other words, this text is not about how to go to heaven when you die, but rather about how to go from slavery to death in this world as we war against others (Eph 2:1 - 3), to unity and peace with others as we live in the family of God (Eph 2:11 - 22).

when the bible supports slavery in chapter after chapter, how do you justify that?

I was saved from the slavery of religion when I studied the bible.

Not at all like the Religious Extremeists that want to put wpmen back in slavery, taking away her freedoms, viewing gays as sub-human, that can't get past the separation of Church and State, and think that the US was founded on Freedom OF Religion, when, in fact, it was founded on Freedom FROM Religion.

When many Americans think of sex slavery, they imagine countries on others sides of the world — not their own neighborhoods.

When people get arranged to marry, they are sold off to a stranger, sold off into slavery.

The Christians did a disfavor when they kidnapped African Americans and sold them into slavery.

When Paul urges slaves to serve their masters well, slavery is not thereby sanctified.

And just when I feel sorry for myself I hear a story by a holocaust survivor, a war hero, or a survivor of human slavery and I realize I have nothing to complain about.

When Moses first encounters God on the mountain, he wants to know why God has waited 400 years to do anything about the slavery of his people.

One of your other «sins» might be that you don't support God's «morals» when it comes to slavery, discriminations, etc..

When Pharaoh was faced with the God of Moses, wanting to lure the Hebrews out of slavery into the desert, his response was to «make them work twice as hard so they have no time to listen».

The single largest question I get when talking to people about modern slavery is this: «But how can I really help?»

When Abram next impatiently demands proof that he will indeed inherit the promised land, God enacts the awe - inspiring covenant - between - the - sacrificial - pieces and, in the eerie darkness, gives Abram some bad news: not he but only his seed will inherit the land, and then only after they have suffered four hundred years of slavery as strangers in a strange land.

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It was therefore a document of potential tragedy, as Madison, its chief architect, well knew when he wondered how well it resolved or failed to resolve the problem of slavery.

He placed the issue of slavery in the light that Abraham Lincoln would always see it when he wrote in 1781: