This version was evidently similar to many of the " Tom Shows " of earlier decades and featured numerous stereotypes about blacks ( such as having the slaves dance in almost any context, including at a slave auction ).

Solon's reforms occurred in the context of democratic politics at Athens that required clearer distinctions between " free " and " slave "; as a perverse consequence, chattel slavery increased.

The novel is also interesting in the historical context of runaway slave communities surviving for a long time in swamp areas.

" Dialect " or " dialect variation " is more appropriate in context, as the word " vernacular " comes from the Latin " vernaculus " ( domestic, native ) which in turn comes from the Etruscan " verna " ( home-born slave, native ).

In the context of the American Civil War, the border states were slave states that did not declare their secession from the United States before April 1861.

He asserts that although war is the context for the slave trade, it cannot be the main cause.

Providing additional controversy is the story's context in the Antebellum south on a slave owning plantation, a setting that is portrayed in a passive and even docile manner.

Originally formulated in an evolutionary context, the ‘ master / slave gene ’ rule should be explained with caution.

Hence, mawla can be taken to mean a variety of words in this context, such as master, commander or even slave, but friend is inaccurate.

The remaining chapters ( VI Rome the Suzerain, VII The Class Struggle on the Ideological Plane, and VIII &# 39 ; The Decline and Fall &# 39 ; of the Roman Empire: an Explanation ) focus primarily on Rome and put forth the thesis that it was the increasing dependence on slave labor and diminishment of what would be considered in a modern context the middle classes that was the actual cause of the collapse.

The contracts are not legally binding, but the agreements have effective power in the context of the novels because any slave, or owner, who violates the contract terms can be ostracized from the secret community of the marketplace — for those whose desires and orientations lead them to membership in that community, being prevented from participating is a very strong motivation to follow the terms of the contracts.

* A bracelet worn by a slave ( this meaning comes from BDSM fiction, e. g. John Norman's Gor series of novels ; in this context it may be a colloquial term for handcuffs ).

The references to a " jury " and a " verdic " imply that the slave was criminally charged: Some sources indicate this may have referred to a coroner's inquest or police investigation, but these " slang " terms were not used outside the context of a court proceeding at the time.

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

When questioned by the Sadducees about the resurrection of the dead ( in a context relating to who one's spouse would be if one had been married several times in life ), Jesus said that marriage will be irrelevant after the resurrection as the resurrected will be ( at least in this respect ) like the angels in heaven.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who gave it its name, who used it to revolutionise musical structure as well as the political context in his native Nigeria.

When used in a historical context, the term Boer may refer to an inhabitant of the Boer Republics as well as those who were cultural Boers.

In this context, Philo wrote that Caligula " regarded the Jews with most especial suspicion, as if they were the only persons who cherished wishes opposed to his ".

… Creation myths explain in metaphorical terms our sense of who we are in the context of the world, and in so doing they reveal our real priorities, as well as our real prejudices.

Ethnologists and anthropologists who study these myths point out that in the modern context theologians try to discern humanity's meaning from revealed truths and scientists investigate cosmology with the tools of empiricism and rationality, but creation myths define human reality in very different terms.

" In the context of these verses, the Word made flesh is identical with the Word who was in the beginning with God, being exegetically equated with Jesus.

Although many of the mining methods are now redundant, such as hushing and fire-setting, it is Pliny who recorded them for posterity, thereby helping us understand their importance in a modern context.

A person who wishes to be vague might conceal words that are too precise in the social context.

Outside the European context, emperor is a translation given to holders of titles who are accorded the same precedence as European emperors in diplomatic terms.

Parmanand Singh cites Pingala's cryptic formula misrau cha (" the two are mixed ") and cites scholars who interpret it in context as saying that the cases for m beats ( F < sub > m + 1 </ sub >) is obtained by adding a to F < sub > m </ sub > cases and to the F < sub > m − 1 </ sub > cases.

The word functor was borrowed by mathematicians from the philosopher Rudolf Carnap, who used the term in a linguistic context.

Psychological complications are related to cultural context ; damage may occur to women who undergo FGM particularly when they are moving outside their traditional circles and are confronted with a view that mutilation is not the norm.

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase " Four score and seven years ago ," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners ( and the nation ) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

In an ideological context, a grokked concept becomes part of the person who contributes to its evolution by improving the doctrine, perpetuating the myth, espousing the belief, adding detail to the social plan, refining the idea or proving the theory.

In yet another context, a hacker is a computer hobbyist who pushes the limits of software or hardware.

In European individualist anarchism a different social context helped the rise of European individualist illegalism and as such " The illegalists were proletarians who had nothing to sell but their labour power, and nothing to discard but their dignity ; if they disdained waged-work, it was because of its compulsive nature.

Unfortunately, the context of social relationships gives these roles and identities the power to define the individual who attempts to use them.

Those who are considered imams in the context of scholarly authority by Sunni Muslims.

The context of the passage is the period following the death of Porcius Festus, and the journey to Alexandria by Lucceius Albinus, the new Roman Procurator of Judea, who held that position from 62 AD to 64 AD.

John Painter states that phrase " who was called Christ " is used by Josephus in this passage " by way of distinguishing him from others of the same name such as the high priest Jesus son of Damneus, or Jesus son of Gamaliel " both having been mentioned by Josephus in this context.

Lexical ambiguity can be addressed by algorithmic methods that automatically associate the appropriate meaning with a word in context, a task referred to as word sense disambiguation.

Anchored crosses are occasionally a feature of coats of arms in which context they are referred to by the heraldic terms anchry or ancre.

In the Gospel of John and in Revelation, Jesus is referred to as " the Word of God " (), although the context in Revelation is very different from John.

It was in this context that the prophet commonly referred to as Malachi delivered his prophecy.

In a British context, it is sometimes referred to as the " Old Commonwealth.

The term " deed ", also known in this context as a " specialty ", is common to signed written undertakings not supported by consideration: the seal ( even if not a literal wax seal but only a notional one referred to by the execution formula, " signed, sealed and delivered ", or even merely " executed as a deed ") is deemed to be the consideration necessary to support the obligation.

In this context, the ⟨ e ⟩ is not pronounced, and is referred to as " silent e ".

A home page can also be used outside the context of web sites, such as to refer to the principal screen of a user interface, which is also referred to as a home screen on mobile devices such as cell phones.

In this context this is referred to as the glucose infusion rate ( GIR ).

Such simplification has sometimes led to confusion if the character is not understood in the context of the sentence or paragraph as a whole, for it poses difficulty to the reader to know which particular word was referred to by the use of the one simple ideogram.

Speaking of homosexuality in any context was socially forbidden, and women rarely discussed lesbianism even amongst themselves ; they referred to openly gay people as " in the Life ".

It was referred to, in that context, during a parliamentary session in 1984.

From the context, it is clear that he referred to reproduction related structures of protists.

The Paleogene is notable in the context of offshore oil drilling, and especially in Gulf of Mexico oil exploration, where it is usually referred to as the " Lower Tertiary ".

In the context of these functional rearrangements, these tertiary or quaternary structures are usually referred to as " conformations ", and transitions between them are called conformational changes.

* In the context of communication waveforms, the time-variant angle, or its modulo value, is referred to as instantaneous phase, often just phase.

" The word " Puritan " thus always referred to a type of religious belief, rather than a particular religious sect, and the attribution has been determined, generally, by a polemical context.

In this context, it should be noted that pankration was also referred to as pammachon or pammachion ( πάμμαχον or παμμάχιον ), meaning " total combat ", from πᾶν -, pān -, " all -" or " total ", and μάχη, machē, " combat ".

Subtype polymorphism, often referred to as simply polymorphism in the context of object-oriented programming, is the ability to create a variable, a function, or an object that has more than one form.

The first reference to " secular humanism " in a US legal context was in 1961, although church-state separation lawyer Leo Pfeffer had referred to it in his 1958 book, Creeds in Competition.

According to Christian belief, salvation is made possible by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, which in the context of salvation is referred to as the " atonement ".

Within the context of traditional Chinese philosophy and religion, Tao is a metaphysical concept originating with Laozi that gave rise to a religion ( Wade – Giles, Tao Chiao ; Pinyin, Daojiao ) and philosophy ( Wade – Giles, Tao chia ; Pinyin, Daojia ) referred to in English with the single term Taoism.

Rather confusingly the publishers themselves are sometimes referred to as third-party developers in the context of their relationships with the console manufacturers ( Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo ).

The vagina is often typically referred to as the birth canal in the context of pregnancy and childbirth, though the term is, by definition, the area between the outside of the vagina and the fully dilated uterus.

In the context of signal processing it is often referred to as the unit impulse symbol ( or function ).