Sentences with phrase «with abolitionists»

In this exhibition he proposes a hybridized cross-pollination between the iconic nineteenth century transcendentalists like Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott, with African writers such as Phillis Wheatley and Lucy Terry Prince, along with abolitionists like Frederick Douglass.

Is it a concern for the moral progress of the human race, as with the Abolitionists?

Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn), rallies behind the president, along with abolitionist Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones).

This adaptation of James McBride's award - winning book follows a young slave in 1856 who travels the nation with an abolitionist.

The story centers on a young slave named Henry «Onion» Shackleford (Jaden Smith), who skips town with abolitionist John Brown (Liev Schreiber).

Not exact matches

Dalahäst If you dug through all of Church history you might find a few leaders like St. Patrick who openly opposed slavery, but the vast majority regarded it as consistent with Christian theology up until the general abolitionist movement.

Early abolitionists lead with this statement because they couldn't find a condemnation of slavery in the Bible.

Many Bible - believing Christians, including those who were uncomfortable with slavery, just weren't buying the abolitionist argument that placed the «spirit of the law» over the «letter of the law.»

As you can see, Christians advocating for the preservation of slavery did not characterize their abolitionist opponents as simply disagreeing with them on the interpretation of the biblical text, but instead tended to accuse them of not taking the Bible seriously at all.

My first contact with prison abolitionists was at a two - day «Alternatives to Prison» seminar where the leadership was provided by Fay Honey Knopp and Jane Kathryn Vella of the Prison Research Education Action Project (PREAP).

American feminism of the 19th century was born of the abolitionist movement, and of equal significance with Friedan's book as impetus for the current women's movement was the experience of women in the civil rights and antiwar protests of the «60s.

Most of the abolitionists» John Brown being the most prominent exception» eventually adopted a latitudinarian reading of Scripture, emphasizing the Spirit; some even boldly declared that if the Bible sanctioned slavery they wanted no more to do with it.

Documentarian Rob Rapley, the writer and director of the series, talked with Religion News Service about the role religion played in the lives of the abolitionists.

The moderates and Southerners combined before the triennial convention of 1841 to keep the slavery question off the floor and to replace a Northern abolitionist board member with a Southern proslavery man.

Her primary volunteer work was with the Whittier Home Association, stewards of the Amesbury, MA home of John Greenleaf Whittier — Quaker, poet, and notable abolitionist.

Consequently, in order to provide greater protection for animals, Richard Martin, together with the Reverend Arthur Broome and fellow MP and slave trade abolitionist William Wilberforce, founded the world's first animal welfare charity, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), in a London coffee shop in 1824.

At the weekend Mr Prescott released a statement saying: «My contact with Philip Anschutz relates solely to the use of the Dome, post-sale, in terms of regeneration of the area, and Mr Anschutz's interest in William Wilberforce, former Hull MP and abolitionist, about whom Mr Anschutz is making a film, as I am personally involved in the 2007 Abolition Bicentenary.»

It remained popular target for Labour activists for much of the 20th century, though the party's abolitionist zeal waned with the rise of New Labour.

Other African - Americans with busts or statues are the late African - American abolitionist and author Frederick Douglass and the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr..

Eleven prisoners died of cancer from 2010 through 2013, and six others have been diagnosed with cancer at the State Correctional Institution Fayette, said the report, released by the Abolitionist Law Center, a public interest law firm based in Pittsburgh, and the Human Rights Coalition, a national prison reform group.

In a survey McKenzie conducted, he found servers at many moderately priced or casual restaurants with table service earn far more than abolitionists realize.

The sculpture depicts a young slave, who recently ran away from the slaveholding South, with her child, telling her story to three men, William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry Ward Beecher, all noted abolitionists.

Abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman will grace a new $ 20 bill: «With this decision, our currency will now tell more of our story and reflect the contributions of women as well as men to our great democracy,» Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said.

Liev will play radical abolitionist John Brown, who unites with Henry «Onion» Shackleford, a young slave played by Jaden Smith.

A team of men, led by the slimy W.N. Bilbo (James Spader) is tasked by Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) with essentially buying the votes of lame - duck Democrats, while abolitionist firebrand Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones, in a performance just as central and Oscar - worthy as Day - Lewis») coordinates backroom deals within his own party.

In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Pitt) will forever alter his life.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Ejiofor is Solomon Northrup, a free black man from upstate New York who is abducted and sold into slavery before finally meeting up with a Canadian abolitionist who will change his life.

A couple of abolitionists (Morgan Freeman and Stellan Skarsgård) believing the slaves are entitled to their freedom team up with Roger S. Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey), an unrefined young attorney approaching the case from a legal rather than moral standpoint.

The film doesn't assume a polemical position regarding the death penalty — either for or against — though in the context of Singaporean authoritarianism it probably would have been banned, with writer - director Boo Junfeng imprisoned, had it taken an explicitly abolitionist stance.

The First Reformed of Paul Schrader's new film is a church, a small edifice in upstate New York with a rich history in the abolitionist movement, a landmark of a bygone age of activism and justice.

The first section of the film is an expositional wonder, as not only are the main characters (including Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn), Republican poobah Preston Blair (Hal Holbrook), radical abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) and various members of the White House - hold, among others) introduced and motivated, but the political issues involved are explained with a detail, clarity and respect for the audience's intelligence that's extremely rare in a Hollywood film.

In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) will forever alter his life.

A complete teachers resource that enables teachers worldwide to teach the Transatlantic Slave Trade with sensitivity, empathy and the role played by black and white abolitionists to end the Slave Trade.

With our study of slavery, we look at the methods used by and character traits of antebellum abolitionists such as Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass and compare their work with that of non-governmental organizations such as Free the Slaves and Anti-Slavery InternatioWith our study of slavery, we look at the methods used by and character traits of antebellum abolitionists such as Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass and compare their work with that of non-governmental organizations such as Free the Slaves and Anti-Slavery Internatiowith that of non-governmental organizations such as Free the Slaves and Anti-Slavery International.

The curriculum of the course seems broad enough — covering the role of Christianity in the founding, the abolitionist movement, civil rights, the fall of communism — but it seems downright all - encompassing when compared, as it was in the complaint, with approved classes like «Modern Irish History» and «Armenian History.»

Last year we read The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, a former slave turned abolitionist and juxtaposed its reading with a viewing of Ava Duvernay's prolific documentary «13th,» which discusses modern - day slavery in the guise of mass incarceration and its direct correlation to a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Just as we needed an abolitionist movement then, we need one now - with the right mindset.

Use the interactive magnet board to place the vocabulary words associated with Black History Month in alphabetical order - Tubman, Rice, King, Parks, civil rights, heritage, slavery, abolitionist, advocate, Powell, equality and prejudice.

This monumental, fictionalized version of the life of the mythic abolitionist John Brown is told by his son Owen, who survives the raid at Harpers Ferry with equal measures of anger and guilt.

Winner of the 2013 National Book Award in fiction, The Good Lord Bird follows the intense, violent buildup to the Civil War as viewed through the eyes of Henry, a young slave on the run with famed abolitionist John Brown.

Titled «Still Life with Wedding Portrait,» the painting depicts the abolitionist posing with her first husband John Tubman.

His 2015 painting of Tubman is a striking image of her posing with her husband for a wedding portrait, a context in which no one but Marshall would ever imagine the legendary abolitionist.

Named for African - American abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth, Parsons paints strong female characters, like the scintillating, silhouetted figure smoking in the darkness in her large - scale work Anthony at Night with the butterflies (2016).

Here the artist presents a portrait of abolitionist Harriet Tubman with her first husband, John, to whom she was married from 1844 to 1851.

The parting of the Red Sea, the Crucifixion, the hanging of the American abolitionist John Brown, and the American Civil War, for example, are depicted by Furnas in dramatic scenes that combine figuration with abstraction.

Cooper was a prominent Democrat, but with the party split over slavery, he was happy to host a leading abolitionist in the newly built Great Hall.

Recitals, which Adkins orchestrated with the Corps through collective improvisation, have commemorated and celebrated such figures as abolitionist John Brown, musician John Coltrane, explorer Matthew Henson, and singer Bessie Smith.

Malcolm Bailey is best known for his late 1960s polymer paintings with collaged images of slave ships and their human cargo — based on 18th century abolitionist diagrams.

Let's remember her love of life, and the powerful inspiration of her namesake, the great orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass who said, «Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.»