Tag: slavery
member name: Amazing Grace Moderator
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February 12, 2007 03:45 PM EST --
Exclusive to Gather! This is the scene from Amazing Grace where William Wilburforce (Ioan Gruffudd) meets fellow humanitarians and abolitionists Olaudah Equiano (Youssou N'Dour) and Thomas Clarkson . . .
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February 19, 2007 09:58 AM EST --
"It's estimated that 27 million people are in slavery around the world"
Sourced by the UN, New York Times, Amnesty International, The Christian Science Monitor, and Free The Slaves, among . . .
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February 21, 2007 11:39 AM EST --
John Newton (1725 – 1807) wrote the words to one of the most beloved hymns of all times, between 1760 and 1770, while working as an evangelical pastor.
Son of the commander of a merchant ship, Newton . . .
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February 08, 2007 12:01 PM EST --
Although slavery was common in the West in the Ancient World, and indeed Aristotle argued that it was part of the natural order of men, with the advent of Christianity came the gradual end of slavery, . . .
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February 08, 2007 12:02 PM EST --
NHD Philly! is the regional National History Day program for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a collaboration of more than thirty history and community-based organizations in the Greater Philadelphia . . .
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February 08, 2007 11:59 AM EST --
"William Wilberforce and William Pitt were both very young men, under thirty, when they took on the British establishment to bring about the abolition of the slave trade." Says Director Michael . . .
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February 08, 2007 11:56 AM EST --
"You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know."
- William Wilberforce, 1789
From acclaimed director . . .
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