Sentences with phrase «worked against slavery»

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More importantly Carter says the Pope agrees with him on the need to somehow work together to end slavery and various forms of abuse against women worldwide.

Incidents of people being forced to work against their will under the threat of punishment, human trafficking, child slavery, and forced or early marriage are all considered forms of modern slavery, according to the Anti-Slavery International.

for in atlas and in other rand works she puts forth the most eloquent and reasoned arguments against slavery ever written.

«Neither Peter in his work to include Gentiles in the church nor the abolitionists in their campaign against slavery argued that their experience should take precedence over Scripture,» writes Matthew.

During that century, two great Quaker saints worked against the evils of slavery.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

This is not slavery, its work and just like me and u. Your boss has no right to decide where you should go next, or hold u against your will.

Dillahunt will portray Armsby, a fellow field hand who works alongside Solomon Northup, a free black man who's brought South against his will and sold into slavery.

In particular, many of de Andrade's works consider how Brazilian national identity and labor conditions have been constructed against a backdrop of colonialism and slavery.

Together Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery and ArtWorks for Freedom feature the work of Kay Chernush in this new exhibit, which examines the fight against modern slavery and human trafficking.

It adds up to a rebuttal against «the predominance of material on African Americans as enslaved people or working in menial jobs or other stereotypical situations,» as Cornell's Katherine Reagan says — these images show African Americans asserting their normality and freedom after the distorting horrors of slavery.

Construction, agriculture, hospitality and seafood are core sectors in my work against modern slavery.