Sentences with phrase «who abolished slavery»

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

A couple of examples are; that it is the church that established universities, it is the church that established hospitals, it was church people who worked to abolish slavery in the west, church people lobbied the British Parliament for an age of consent, the emancipation of women comes from Christian teaching.

But the same people who say we should now abolish slavery still hold that the ideal of marriage is the submission of a woman to a man.

The name forever associated with the campaign to abolish slavery is William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833), a member of the Clapham Sect, who became a member of Parliament in 1780 — the same year as the future Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, who was a friend of Wilberforce, entered Parliament.

Guess old Islam was the first to be a cause for your unity from the dates of the crusaders... Then in modern history there came the «Nazi's» then came the «Communists» but today you have the «New Islam»... they were those who united you and got you to abolish slavery and made of you equal as it is today in Black and White!?

People bring up they don't want government in their business, but look if it wasn't for the government the 9 black students who went to school in the south for the 1st time after slavery and aparthied was abolished wouldn't have gotten to that school if the people with their fear and hatred had their way.

Isn't it remarkable that atheists, who did virtually nothing to oppose slavery, condemn Christians, who are the ones who abolished it?

What I * said * if you care to read it, is that, if we were to strictly follow what the bible says, we would have no justification for abolishing slavery and slaves who attempt to follow the bible would not seek their freedom.

Slavery was abolished in America and brought to end (except by some muslims who still practice it today) in the world by mostly the efforts of Christians.

At one point, those who worked to abolish human slavery were thought radical, and it is the same today with those of us who work to abolish animal slavery... such is the way of history...

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.

Some of the performers make a strong impression (particularly the alert and reactive Glover, who McGregors the part in a big way, and Phoebe Waller - bridge as the voice of Lando's copilot, L3 - 37, a robot fighting to abolish machine slavery).

Afterward, we're in Lincoln's private chambers as he describes this dream to his wife, Mary Todd (Sally Field), who eventually suggests that it's a vision of his role in the forthcoming political battle to pass the 13th constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.

Instead of trying to squeeze in every facet of the man's storied life, Lincoln chooses to focus on the period as the Civil War drew to a bloody, heart - rending close and the president, who had chosen to form a cabinet made up largely of people who opposed him, was sticking to his campaign to abolish slavery.

The actor will portray Ohio Congressman Wells A. Hutchins, a Democrat who crosses party lines to vote in favor of abolishing slavery.

The President (Daniel Day - Lewis) needs to persuade 20 - odd Democrats to say «aye» to the abolishing of slavery, so his sceptical but loyal Secretary of State (David Strathairn) sends a trio of rollicking hucksters (James Spader, John Hawkes and Tim Blake Nelson) to offer juicy jobs to anyone who seems biddable.

Once upon a time there were probably few people who had imagined that slavery could be abolished or that women could vote in elections.