Sentence examples for support of slavery from inspiring English sources

What's most disquieting about the Southern Baptists' historic support of slavery is that the church leaders weren't lacking in Scriptural support.

It helped, to be sure, that the Democrats spent those decades living down their shameful support of slavery, secession and Jim Crow.

He joined the Know-Nothing Party — those anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant agitators — but left when he found the party's support of slavery insufficiently intense.

Founded in support of slavery before the Civil War, the Southern Baptist Convention has 16 million members and is the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

(Bowling, who calls himself Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, did tell TPM that "no one in their right mind is in support of slavery" — glad we're on the same page on that).

Bell's temperate support of slavery combined with his vigorous defense of the Union brought him the presidential nomination on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860, but he carried only Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

While governor of Virginia, the Nat Turner slave rebellion occurred and Floyd initially supported emancipation of slavery, but eventually went with the majority.

And some state parties are moving away from their Jacksonian roots, dropping the name of the seventh president from annual fundraising dinners because of his support for slavery and his treatment of Native Americans.

The bill calls on greater support for victims of slavery, including statutory support for up to a year after identification.

In a letter to Jefferson, Banneker said that since Jefferson had written in the Declaration of Independence that all men were created equal, he should support the end of slavery.

It is hard to identify the source of Mancunians' brazen independence, which may have ignited conflict between entrepreneurs and their employees, but it was also what united them to support the abolition of slavery.