Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2021:
The Atlantic slave trade lasted for over 400 years, but freedom lasts forever. Slavery was commonly known as a condition in which someone owns and controls a human being. This meant that the law considered such persons as property and deprived of the rights that are usually accorded to free persons. Historians put it that on the 25th of March 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act entered the statute books and became law.
However, Slave Trade continued until 1811 and effectively ended in 1787. Historians have given us many reasons and factors that led to the abolition of the trade, including the work of philanthropists like Granville Sharp and William Wilberforce. Others cite the coincidence with the French Revolution, the Maroon uprisings, and other individual acts of resistance.
The Atlantic slave trade lasted for years (over 400 years), but
freedom lasts forever. Slavery was commonly known as a condition in which another owned one human being. This meant that the law considered such persons as property, and deprived of the rights that is usually accorded to
free persons. Historians put it that on the 25
th March 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act entered the statute books and became law. However, the Slave Trade continued until 1811 and it effectively ended in 1787. Historians have given us many reasons and factors that led to the abolition of the trade; including the work of philanthropists like Granville Sharp and William Wilberforce. Others cite the coincidence with the French Revolution, the Maroon uprisings, and other individual acts of resistance.
Danbury childhood of best-selling author featured in a new memoir about a Candlewood Lake dream
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DANBURY - Eric Metaxas is the best-selling author who’s taken readers to the worlds of the Protestant reformer Martin Luther, the British abolitionist William Wilberforce and the anti-Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
As such, it may surprise fans to learn that Metaxas has chosen a comparatively pedestrian setting for his latest history book - 1970s Danbury, where the author as his own subject recounts the seminal events of his childhood in “the only home I ever really had.”
March 15, 2021
The nation billing itself as a “worker’s paradise” has become the largest driver of slaves in the world. When we speak of slavery in Communist China, we do not mean it as a metaphor. Red China is practicing real, modern-day slavery holding people in bondage and forcing them to labor for someone else’s benefit.
Western society has largely ignored the problem for the same reason we turn a blind eye to all sorts of atrocities out of Red China: we like to buy the cheap stuff they make. Strikingly, despite our national obsession with the historical slavery that occurred in America’s past, we hesitate to mention the offense happening in China right now for all the world to see.
by Joseph T. Stuart, Sophia Institute Press (2020), 387 pp
The “portrait” began to establish itself as a literary genre, especially in French literature, from about 1650 onwards. French writers of the 17th century “le Grand Siècle” such as Molière and La Bruyère excelled in this form of a painting-in-words of a person. In the eighteenth century the portrait contained more of the psychology of the individual, while in the 19th century it found its place in the novel, especially in the works of Balzac.
Joseph T. Stuart’s
Rethinking the Enlightenment is a refreshing read for a number of reasons. Not least among these is that this analysis of “faith in the Age of Reason” (as its subtitle reads) contains a series of “portraits” of very different personalities who reflect varying attitudes or positions taken to the Enlightenment and to the Christian faith and to the relationship between them.