slavery

In his inaugural speech, the new president denounced the long dispute over slavery. He said he hoped it would end soon.

Partial freedom seems to me a most invidious mode of slavery.

At a time when western countries (mainly referring to here is the European countries) was just a state of slavery in the city state.

He said they were interfering with a southern institution and were forcing slavery into politics.

As I've said elsewhere, the members of the Court in Plessy remembered the day when human slavery was the law in much of the land.

Buchanan said the South had good reason to leave the Union if abolitionists continued their attacks against slavery.

If it is wrong to enslave another, then God must be able to provide for those who follow him without resorting to slavery.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Senator John Clayton of Delaware proposed to the Senate that it name a special committee on the question of slavery in the new territories.

Settlers in both new territories would have the right to decide the question of slavery.

He said that God wanted him to fight slavery by invading Virginia with a military force.

And how did he get from his pledge not to interfere with slavery to a decision a year later to issue an emancipation proclamation?

Brown himself did not want to escape. He said he could do more to destroy slavery by hanging than by staying alive.

Also included are "A Plea for the Poor" and "Considerations on Keeping Negroes" one of the earliest attacks on slavery.

Lincoln is best known for his policies on abolishing slavery and his belief in self-government; he took his job as president very seriously.

Under these circumstances. Congress, on taking charge of these countries, did not absolutely prohibit slavery within them.

Also significant was the fact that in 1847, just one of ten Philadelphia blacks had been born in slavery.

I believe anyone would be perfectly right to interfere with you, so far as to free those you wickedly hold in slavery. I think I did right.

Most anti-slavery men did not vote, because their names had been kept off the voting lists by pro-slavery officials.

So with slavery there too would be the theft of land aboriginals had not abandoned since time immemorial .

Obviously, it's an extraordinary personal moment, but, you know, you don't have to go back to slavery.

The clergyman would only absolve his torturers , abbreviate none of his final words which once more called on the abolition of slavery.

The poor soul yielded herself entirely to her sister's orders, and did not even dare to complain of her slavery to Briggs or Firkin.

But the result of the Civil War was that slavery was abolished and all black Southern slaves were freed.

You know for me, the interest in contemporary forms of slavery started with a leaflet that I picked up in London.

Stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

It is not enough to abolish slavery or to say it is wrong.

George Washington was born into a world where slavery was an accepted part of life.

The chains of slavery are beginning to fall away, and suddenly there is an air of expectation that Man will once more become free.

be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.

For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery.

Nebraska lay north of the Missouri compromise line, which had been established in eighteen twenty. Slavery was not permitted there.

To them, slavery was no longer just a question of right or wrong. It was a necessity for survival.

If the American Civil War had not occurred, would slavery have been persistent for the rest of the century?

Well, one thing was dead sure, and that was that Tom Sawyer was in earnest, and was actually going to help steal that nigger out of slavery.

On a much grander scale, God's offer to liberate us from the slavery of sin is often met with resistance.

Despite all the head-drilling society does to make you think work equates slavery, there are many possibilities for work to be a joy.

Such a decision is all that slavery now lacks of being alike lawful in all the States.

Although he owned slaves, he took a moderate stance on the territorial expansion of slavery, angering fellow Southerners.

America's early leaders knew that trying to end slavery probably would split the nation in two.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse[A] to see it tried on him personally .

Human trafficking has become a major issue in the Midwest heartland of America, causing some campaigners to dub it a modern form of slavery.

He added that Congress would not accept Kansas as a slave state, or a free state, until the people had voted on the question of slavery.

No matter how kind her mistress is, -no matter how much she loves her home, beg her not to go back, -for slavery always ends in misery.

and that is , there a nigger here that im a - trying to steal out of slavery , and his name is jim - old miss watson s jim .

He fought to preserve slavery all his life, even as an old man at the very end of his career as a senator from South Carolina.

That was the abolitionist movement, which opposed slavery. Abolitionists did not like Clay, because he owned slaves.

Plato, carried by his clear reason and the noble sanity of his spirit beyond the things of the present, would have abolished slavery.

Thoreau withheld the tax as a protest against slavery and the war with Mexico, which he did not support.

The question of slavery stirred the great deeps of her compassion.

But slavery should never be tolerated regardless of any economic benefit, just as systemic fraud should not be tolerated.

He said they were responsible for suffering resulting from slavery, world wars, atomic attacks and the current economic breakdown.

Reader, beware: this book is as much about the anti-slavery movement as it is about the genesis of a scientific idea.

Clay hated the abolitionists and the great noise they were beginning to make over slavery.

And perhaps that is the key point: it is perfectly possible to pursue one's creative ambitions in tandem with a bit of mundane wage-slavery.

Texas would be a state where slavery was permitted. For this reason, the anti-slavery leaders in the North strongly opposed Texas statehood.

The first was the Thirteenth Amendment. It ended slavery in the United States. The next was the Fourteenth Amendment.

You know I dislike slavery, and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

In my last column, I described the sex trafficking in places like Cambodia as a modern form of slavery, and I believe that.

The reality was that President Washington broke America away from the near-slavery of England, but ended up keeping America's own slaves.

The state of slavery which is thus brought on is the worst form of cancer to which humanity is subject.

"Purity" is an Orphic conception, having primarily a ritual meaning, but for Plato it means freedom from slavery to the body and its needs.

He was active in politics and strongly against slavery. In all his political life, he thought of building a free state for all the people.

Some slave states chose to stay in the Union. The Union also included free states and free territories (which did not allow slavery).

As in the days of slavery, Martin Luther King found a message of equality and brotherhood in Christian teachings.

The bill did not clearly say if slavery would be legal, or illegal, in the two new territories.

Or consider that it was cellulose- in the form of cotton- that was at the root of slavery and the American Civil War.

Above all, the appearance of a free man who would be "immune to the recurrences of spiritual slavery. "

She argues against the institution of slavery yet, at least initially, feels repulsed by the slaves as individuals.

It focuses on the poor life of black slaves and their struggle to achieve freedom, and makes a vehement attack upon the chattel slavery.

However, this was not before the dark Ones virtually achieved their plan for total world control, and the slavery of Mankind.

He promised he would not initiate force to maintain the Union or interfere with slavery in the states in which it already existed.

Promising his fellow goblins safe passage off of the island, he took their life savings and sent them on their way -- to slavery.

She fought with all her might against the slavery of women and their role in such a society.

It began soon after the end of slavery in the south, when African-American musicians became able to travel and play music for a living.

Clay also opposed the southern senators who tried to prevent discussion of slavery. He said their position was emotional and extreme.

The 222-year-old document contained language that tacitly condoned slavery, and did not give voting right to women.

Blessed be God that there is a war waging with slavery, that the granite rock is about to be rolled from its base.

Lincoln was firmly against extending slavery in the territories, but did not seekatfirstto eradicate the "peculiar institution" altogether.

I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery.

Franklin devoted the last years of his life to the movement to end slavery.

This book spectacularly humanises him, showing how he was driven by the great moral cause of his day: opposition to slavery.

We do not buy people out of slavery. Buying people out of slavery is like paying a burglar to get your television back .

Gradually in the 18th century an anti-slavery lobby built up in Europe, notably in Britain, the superpower of the seas.

Though leaders like John Quincy Adams asked Congress to end slavery back in 1828, Congress did not act for nearly 20 years.

He said attempts to do this violated earlier agreements to limit slavery to areas where it already existed.

Moreover, while many of his contemporaries approved of slavery, Darwin did not.

Of the seven, five were from the South. They did not believe Congress had any power over territorial slavery.

On election day, hundreds of men from Missouri crossed the border into Kansas. They voted illegally, and the pro-slavery candidate won.

Their goal was to anti-slavery for the United States where slavery would be banned.

As an educator and a champion of self-help, he tried to lead black America up from slavery.

About 50 slavery opponents met in Ripon, Wis. , to call for creation of a new political group that became the Republican Party.

One part of the country, he said, believes slavery is right and should be extended.

And without a change of opinions what else is there than the slavery of men who groan while they pretend to obey?

In 1833, one of every seven adults in Britain signed a petition against slavery.

Still, Kansas officials declared that slavery had been approved. They urged Congress to make Kansas a state under this condition.

Before the Civil War, if you were black and born a free man you could still be forced into slavery. That's what happened to Solomon Northup.

The relief was indescribable. It was freedom after years of slavery. A great weight lifted from me.

They simply did not want slavery to spread to other areas. The Republican Party held its presidential nominating convention in Philadelphia.

His views seem to us to fall far short of what may fairly be termed even a statesmanlike Anti-Slavery creed.

The documentaries also show that it is possible for victims of modern-day slavery to regain their freedom.

It was remarked in England that women did much to abolish slavery in her colonies.

Democrats said the policy was proof that anti-slavery extremists were in control of the government.

There is a judgment and a feeling against slavery in this nation, which cast at least a million and a half of votes.

Then the cat said, purring, "Not half so ugly in her sleep as you in your waking slavery. "

They had just begun to come out of a hereditary kind of slavery .

But the question of slavery delayed quick congressional action.

This usually puts people into a new form of government controlled slavery.

The agitation against slavery in England in the early nineteenth century was indubitably altruistic, and was thoroughly effective.

Some of the older families had been there since the Civil War and became Republicans because they were against secession and slavery.

John Brown had declared that he was ready to die fighting slavery.

I had lunch with a friend of mine the other day and she said something that I found startling: "Work is paid slavery. "

The ruling was interpreted (questionably, but this was the effect) as confirming that there could be no slavery in Britain.

King Priam was killed. Queen Hecuba, her daughter Cassandra and her daughter-in-law Andromache were all carried into slavery.

The United States, as a matter of fact, was notorious for genocide against aboriginal Indians, trade of African blacks and black slavery.

The power of good continued though with Abraham Lincoln's objection to slavery leading to his Gettysburg Address in 1863.

One of those purposes, Lincoln then suggests, may be to punish both North and South for permitting the offense of slavery.

The cause of American Civil War lay in the problem of whether the slavery should be banned or not.

The species, which holds female in slavery, punishes the male for his gesture toward escape; it liquidates him with brutal force.

Since then, similar cases of slavery have been reported sporadically around China, suggesting the problem has not been eliminated.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall. . . freedom and slavery are mental states.

but, after the South seceded, there was no political reason to tolerate slavery.

Forced labour in prostitution is a form of human trade, slavery and is a serious crime. Report the crime via an anonymous telephone call.

Social prison society where the governments have figured out how to make slavery legal today by making a prison into a profiting enterprise.

Greece, of course, was no Utopia: prostitution and rape, often attended by slavery, were common.

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United Stales.

They had no interest in ending slave labor in the South. They simply did not want slavery to spread to other areas.

Aren't our values better than those of the 'primitive' societies that practice slavery, cannibalism, and polygamy?

We do not accept the existence of permanent tyranny because we do not accept the possibility of permanent slavery.

The United States had been established as a democracy. Yet slavery existed.

I don't trip and let it fade me, from out of the frying pan, we jump into another form of slavery.

I don't think there was anything at all enjoyable about the fate of the women who were forced into slavery by the Japanese army.

Thus there are checks on child slavery which do not exist, or are less powerful, in the case of manual and industrial slavery.

They did not, however, advocate the abolition of slavery by violent measures.

Okay, we have to ask ourselves, are we willing to live in a world with slavery.

Pax had looked out for his brother ever since their shiftless, spice-addled parents had sold them into slavery.

then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

He may have it continue until the riches earned from two hundred fifty years of slavery are gone.

Debt slavery can persist across generations, future generations being made to work to pay off debts incurred by past generations.

The court agreed, and Adams's victory in the Amistad case was a significant success for the movement to abolish slavery.

This redemption was not an end to economic slavery, but it was a more hopeful beginning for many.

I do not mean by all this to suggest that slaves are necessary or that the right of slavery is legitimate, for I have proved the contrary.

In most of the world, when a person works long hours without pay, it's referred to as slavery or forced labor.

Some of the known civics are Free Market, Environmentalism, Slavery, Serfdom, Free Speech, Conscription, Emancipation, and Nationhood .

But as president of the United States, Lincoln was bound by a Constitution that protected slavery in any state where citizens wanted it.

Fail in the election as he did, he became famous for his fiery speech against slavery.

Resourceful, Swilla continued to do what she had always done in slavery: tending animals.

He speaks from experience as he humorously condemns the phony feudalism of "the lost cause" (slavery).

Pinkerton was an abolitionist (activist against slavery).

The logo of the club bears, wild boar's head, a man smoking a pipe and a slogan "Ugliness is a virtue, beauty is slavery" .

When he was born, slavery had been supplanted by racial segregation, enshrined in law in the South and in practice in the North.

anachronistic hangover from the days of slavery in the United States, but a vibrant cultural addition to the 21st century global village.

It arose over slavery in the new territories. Southerners argued that they had the right to take slaves into New Mexico and California.

It also held that the United States Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories.

Think of the abolitionists who struggled and died to see the end of slavery.

With treasure, Arachna lures men into the slavery of her webs to embrace death and feed her spider minions.

Though not a vegetarian, she certainly had strong ethical views and objected to the slavery that she saw around her.

His belief in liberty was the mainspring of his fight against slavery.

Mr. Yoshimi said he was unsurprised by the recent moves to deny the wartime sex slavery.

Many times have I wept in the land of my birth over the system of slavery.

Long ago there was a beautiful little girl named Doricha from Greece. Pirates kidnapped her and sold her into slavery in Egypt.

The gangster regime uses torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder in its paranoid struggle to maintain control of its people.

Charles Darwin's thinking about the natural world was profoundly influenced by his revulsion for slavery.

He could not support a bill to let slavery spread into the territories. That would make the North rise in anger.

Then he was sold to a man who took him to Illinois and Wisconsin, where slavery was not legal.

As the nation prepared for a presidential election year, the South renewed its promise to defend slavery -- or leave the Union.

African chattel slavery would prove over the centuries to be the worst kind of curse for Brazil.

men sold their children into slavery for a few dollars, and killed them if this sum was unobtainable .

Traditional forms of slavery have been abolished. But, contemporary forms of slavery are often as cruel and dehumanizing.

Slavery's inherent problem having always been that the slave becomes a nameless commodity.

Now they saw that he was an independent man with high ideals who loved his country and hated slavery.

The film follows Lincoln's struggle to abolish slavery as the country drifts into a civil war.

Hundreds of Chinese workers were kept in virtual slavery for years as part of a multimillion-pound pirate DVD industry uncovered in the UK.

He was born on the Far South, on the d'Arnault plantation, where the spirit if not the fact of slavery persisted.

So I have come down to deliver them out of slavery and bring them to a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

And the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) recently ruled that slavery is a crime against humanity.

Lincoln, against huge opposition, went on to reunite the fractured United States, win the Civil War, and abolish slavery in the US.

After winning his own freedom from slavery, Henson secretly helped hundreds of other slaves to escape north to Canada -- and liberty.

They did not want to live next to a territory where slavery was not legal.

We have made a commitment that we will never let people come out of slavery on our watch, and end up as second class citizens.

They lure women in Mexico with promises of a good job only to be forced into sexual slavery once here.

Senegal and Guinea-Bissau - At least 50, 000 young boys live in conditions that amount to a modern form of slavery.

"Beloved" tells the story of a slave haunted by the horror of killing her own baby girl to save her from the suffering of slavery.

In 1859, John Brown, an abolitionist, (someone who wanted to see slavery abolished), led a raid on the town.

They wanted new states to be free from slavery, so they would not have to compete with slave labor.

Instead of a real train, the Underground Railroad was a series of hiding places, usually in houses of people who opposed slavery.

She had been subject to such inhuman sexual slavery for three years in Nanjing.

namely, the question of slavery.

Neither does Denson deny that the Southern states, in seceding, were in part motivated by fear that Lincoln would interfere with slavery.

Many Americans did not like either candidate, because of the candidates' policies on slavery.

It has convicted people for the use of child soldiers, for "forced marriages" (as distinct from rape) and for sexual slavery.

The memory of slavery and its lasting social effects sour race relations in Europe and America to this day.

While sir, slavery cuts off the colored portion of the community from religious privileges men are made infidels.

It arose out of disputes over the issues of slavery, trade and tariffs, and the doctrine of states' rights.

A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery.

Now the language all through here is all about slavery.

Slavery, he declared, did not belong in politics.

Being under the law is being enslaved to these, and he says you want to go back to that slavery?

Of course, low wages were hardly the chief reason that slavery was an atrocity.

Issues of slavery, trafficking, and exploitation will continue to be highlighted in the news.

Now, if we do that, if we put the resources and the focus to it, what does it actually cost to get people out of slavery?

Unable to contain his joy, he ran to the beach, where he came across some pirates who took him away and sold him into slavery.

He lives 1990s, the United States implemented the southern states of slavery, he was a farmer, born abolitionism.

Lincoln then threw his energies into passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to permanently abolish slavery throughout the nation.

rulers. Forcing peas- anTS into debt, serfdom and sometimes slavery, they seized most of the land for themselves.

Cass and Douglas supported the idea of letting the people of a territory decide if slavery would be permitted in that territory.

Those amendments, like the 13th, which banned slavery, came with clauses granting Congress the power to enforce them.

The first international social movement was the abolitionist campaign to do away with slavery and the slave trade.

But now the need was to protect the free Athenians against the return of such slavery .

He would make the new territory of California a free state. Slavery there would be banned.

Sandel addresses one of the most glaring objections to Aristotle's views on freedom -- his defense of slavery.

Convention delegates quickly approved a party statement. The statement supported the Union and the war. It opposed slavery.

Fighting between the two sides almost began when a Free State man was killed by a pro-slavery man.

The Earth people have to wake up now and fight against the slavery and lies of the Earth governments and the secret world government.

Since the region's labor force was free of slavery, new European immigrants moved into the Midwest en masse.

Frederick Douglass became one of the most important leaders of the abolitionist movement to end slavery in the United States.

In the times of slavery in this country, African American couples were not allowed to formally marry and live together.

Black people, although liberated from slavery, still did not have full civil rights.

Pro-Slavery as an issue drives you towards reaction, Anti-Slavery drives you towards Liberalism and reform as an issue increases militancy.

Many of them had not even believed in slavery and they thought this was far worse than slavery had ever been.

As speakers for the New York Anti-Slavery Society, they were the first women to publicly lecture to audiences, including men.

Slavery was "an unqualified evil to the negro, the white man, and the State, " said Abraham Lincoln in the 1850s.

It's a story of the spread of slavery through the south and the Great Migration of African-Americans to the north.

The pro-slavery legislature passed a bill calling for such a convention.

When Abraham Lincoln became President of the United States of America, he was completely involved in the problem of slavery.

More than a century later, people are debating the reasons for the war, slavery versus states' rights.

I allude to the question of slavery.

Instead of serving prison sentences, criminals would be sentenced to indentured servitude, whipped, sold into slavery, or executed.

God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

Brazil is not unique in its history of slavery and the obliteration of its indigenous peoples.

Although slavery was done away with, the blacks were still separated from the whites in the United states until the 1960s.

Has anything ever threatened the existence of this Union save and except this very institution of slavery?

Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.

Body: God had brought the people of Israel out of slavery in Egypt, and He was giving them the land of Canaan for their new homeland.

Slavery in all important countries, are at a very early stage had a professional architect.

In England there was no slavery, so there was no particular reason for most people to face the ugly truth.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.

By all odds, her book should have been as bad as the innumerable other specimens of anti-slavery (or pro-slavery)fiction.

But I do question a system that defends its own freedom while it denies it to others. . . war is a scourge, but so is slavery.

Another primary objective of Fillmore was to preserve the Union from the intensifying slavery debate.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reiterated his apology over wartime sex slavery in a recent interview with the US magazine Newsweek.

Such reasoning provided proslavery advocates with a response to those who condemned slavery on economic and moral grounds.

They were sure that the majority of the population would reject a constitution that made slavery legal.

The increasing bitterness over the issue of slavery put Whig leader Henry Clay in a difficult position.

The legacy of slavery is one of the hardest issues in world history upon which to find agreement.

She was born in 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina, twelve years after the Emancipation Proclamation announced the end of slavery.

I also remember the stories of cruelty that the Africans endured before the institution of slavery was abolished in the United States.

The American leaders , uplifted by the glorious news , founded the American Anti- slavery Society the same year .

Supporters of slavery wanted to organize a constitutional convention that could put Kansas into the Union as a slave state.