Sentences with phrase «where slavery»

Described by the author as «an alternate history that wasn't alternate enough,» this fast - paced novel depicts a present - day U.S.A. where slavery is legal in four states in the South.

After spending four years visiting a dozen countries where slavery flourishes, Skinner tells the story, in gripping narrative style, of individuals who live in slavery, those who have escaped from bondage, those who own or traffic in slaves, and the mixed political motives of those who seek to combat the crime.

Many white Americans, especially in the South where slavery was more predominant, were against the enlistment of black soldiers.

For instance, the two worlds in John Sayles's The Brother from Another Planet (1984)-- the home planet of the alien, where slavery still exists, and Harlem of the 1980s, where he crash - lands after escaping his owners — represent two different points in African - American history, and allow for a thoughtful (and comedic) reflection on both.

Much of the power of Dee Rees» Mudbound lies in the way it depicts a society where slavery is abolished but not all that much has changed.

Though Howie is a considerably crueller master than Bass, when Lee finds out they're heading for Mexico — where slavery is outlawed — he abruptly changes allegiances.

The two come upon Manderlay, a plantation in Alabama where slavery has been reinvented.

He begins with a plantation in Alabama where slavery has never been abolished: Mam (Lauren Bacall) rules with a iron hand, assisted by her foreman Wilhelm (Danny Glover), a slave who believes his people are not ready for the responsibilities of freedom.

Trekking through this Not So Great Land of Ours, Grace, now played by Bryce Dallas Howard instead of Nicole Kidman, winds up at Manderlay, a plantation where slavery never ended, despite the fact that the year is 1933.

Let them go to Man U, PSG, Chelsea and the other clubs owned by states where slavery is allowed or Russian with mafia money.

Among the Hebrews, as always where slavery has flourished, the institution presented an endless series of moral and legal problems.

The problem here is that the plaintiffs in any such suit would be obliged to sue not only the states we think of as having been slaveholding states — the states of the old Confederacy — but any state where slavery had been legalized at any time.

If you want to live where slavery or human sacrifice are the norm, be my guest.

Furthermore, we live in a world where slavery was condoned for a while and now in modern America it is taboo because owning another human being is a reprehensible act.

Second, even if you give that these scenarios are «voluntary» (really... if the state allows a scenario where slavery is the only employment option????) they were just a fraction of the slave population.

Not exact matches

Where as (following the suffrage and civil rights movements) they have taken Biblical references regarding women and slavery and rightly applied cultural context to them, they have not done the same regarding gays and lesbians.

NO, the bible does not approve or sanction slavery, it allows it within rules of conduct to ensure humane treatment at a time where there was simply no alternative.

The bible where god orders murder, r - ape, genocide, child abuse, and slavery.

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.

Where does the «type of consciousness» come from that enables Christians to see the IMMORALITY of God's support for slavery and discriminations?

You can find a number of texts where god clearly orders the implementation of slavery.

Regardless of where the idea of ceasing slavery began it was devout Christians who stepped up to abolish it.

«Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»

«It bears fruits of hope and dignity where there are deprivation and exclusion, hunger and unemployment; where there are migrants and refugees, so often rejected by today's culture of waste, and victims of the drug trade, human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery,» he said.

For those just joining us, Bruce Miller's television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's firebrand 1985 novel centers on the world of Gilead, a dystopian society where a Christian theocracy has forced fertile women into slavery as Handmaids.

Linda Smith goes into great detail about how many children are enslaved, where they come from, how they are enslaved, what is being done to stop child sex slavery, and what organizations are out there that you and I can get involved with.

I remember it because it was just weeks before the Freedom Day on March 25th at Vanguard where hundreds gathered to protest slavery and bring attention to this very real problem.

Eventually the Church moved to the forefront of abolition because we understood this truth: Just because the Bible contained instructions about how to treat slaves in a context and culture where it was acceptable to hold slaves does not mean slavery is a godly practice or part of God's intended purpose for creation.)

HUMAN SLAVERY Another difficult and impossible situation is where you have forced prostitution through organized crime syndicates.

As he put it: «Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national territories, and to overrun us here in these free states?

In the aftermath of colonialism, environmental exploitation, the Holocaust, slavery, apartheid and other exploits of the last few centuries, we have seen where excessive confidence leads.

Genesis 38:24 (where it's OK to burn a pregnant woman alive) Exodus 21:22 - 23 Leviticus 27:6 (also says it's OK to sell your kids into slavery) Numbers 3:15 - 16, 5:21, 5:27 - 28, 31:15 - 17 Hosea 9:14, 9:16, 13:16 2nd Samuel 12:14

Where did the morals come from that tell so many Christians that the Bible is WRONG to support slavery and discrimination against women and the handicapped?

Where do the morals come from that tell us the Bible is WRONG about things like slavery, discriminations, beating and selling children, etc..?

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South.»

He campaigned on the principle of no immediate interference with slavery in the states where it already existed and absolutely no extension of slavery into any territories.

@@@@@ JEEZ yeah and ABRAHAM ISSAC YACOOB AND KING DAVID KING SOLOMON YAHSHUYAH MESSIAH APOSTLE PAUL JONAH where born and raised in Europe in the European Vatican eating pork drinking animal blood eating sunny side running half cooked eggs with hotsauce and black truffles and eating shellfish yeah you people can't stand the truth and slavery never happen in USA and the black inventors of USA stole every invention huh and the European Vatican stop the Transatlantic slave route trade too no where so please explain too me WHY MY BLACK PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD when they have mixed children they all come out BLACK DNA don't lie VATICAN DO LIE

So one can't simply transfer what the Bible says about «slavery» to an American context where the institution and the circumstances are very different and the word therefore has a different meaning.

«I am the God who brought you out» of slavery in Egypt was a strong reminder never to forget where they came from and who delivered them.

«There is never any doubt in the Bible that we are to treat others properly and New World form of slavery where the person was the property of another was against the law of God.»

Then we have eugenics programs, testing of chemicals and radiation on unsuspecting civilians, slavery, women having no right other than to shut up and stay in the kitchen, children working in factories... I'm not seeing where we were doing all that well when we were supposedly so Godly.

This, of course, is where the notion of group identity enters into the reparations argument, since the crime of slavery — by the logic of modern reparations — was committed, not against individuals, but against a group (African - Americans) and therefore reparations can be paid to a group (African - American descendants).

There was a time when Christ following Bible believers defended slavery with the Bible (no where does it say not to own slaves, and in fact, Paul even provides some moral guidelines for masters as well as slaves, urging them to be obedient.

But a gospel - saturated approach will seek to redeem and reconcile all the elements of that culture so that where they once pointed people to sin, slavery, and death, they now point people to love, freedom, and life.

Only in one respect does it accord with Jewish practice, and that is in v. 30, where the servant is imprisoned and not sold into slavery.

Hundreds of monuments to slavery still stand throughout the Southeast, such as Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, Alabama, where a student population that's 94 percent black attends classes in a building that honors a man who claimed the horrors of slavery.

In an age where Christians are increasingly seen as intolerant, bigoted and out of touch, leading the charge in removing the ghosts of slavery from our public places would be a great step to reconciling with an increasingly hostile, mainstream culture.

In the United States of America, where both black rebellions and religious revivals helped create opposition to slavery, it was only completely abolished after the Civil War (1861 - 5).

Where did Jesus promote slavery??

Where is the Bible does it say that slavery is «right» or «wrong»??? Ditto «discrimination»... whatever you mean by that quite nebulous term...