Sentences with phrase «african slave woman»

(Italian, 1560 — 1609), Portrait of an African Slave Woman, ca. 1580s.

Reiss's subject is a compelling one; Dumas was born in Saint - Domingue (now Haiti) to a black African slave woman and her white aristocratic owner.

The story begins with Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode), who fathered a daughter — Dido Elizabeth — with an African slave woman he rescued from a Spanish ship, taking that daughter from the slums where she's been living with her mother — now deceased — to the grand estate owned by his uncle, Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson, excellent as always), who just happens to be the Lord Chief Justice of England.

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And African - American women, to take another example, have complicated the Anglo - European interpretation of the Abraham / Sarah narratives by focusing on the character of Hagar, the ethnic outsider, the slave, the surrogate wife.

As a matter of fact, the sex industry is the most deregulated industry without any rule or much less code of conduct whatsoever which can use anything as commodities, even women's bodies, just as British slave merchants did to African people in the 18th century.

«Brown Sugar» not only references sugar and molasses, but also obviously refers to African women sold on the market as slaves — disgustingly sold as things, But the song even more refers to a brown version of....

Poor we nobody loves us, African had gained their freedoms while Arabs are still treated as decendants of a son of a slave woman...!!

They usually built their towns on islands adjoining the mainland for purposes of defense against the tribes of the hinterland, settled down and married African women, and traded in gold, slaves, ivory, and other African products.

«Any such commission of inquiry should be given the mandate to establish the facts and circumstances surrounding the slave auction and other atrocities being perpetrated in Libya against Nigerians and other African women, men and children, and to collect and preserve evidence as well as clarify responsibility, including the potential complicity of any governments and non-state actors.»

Once in North America, African slaves and their descendants mixed with whites of European ancestry, usually because enslaved black women were raped and exploited by white men.

Durek, for example, has known since he was a child growing up in suburban San Francisco and Hawaii that he was meant to follow in the tradition of his great grandmother, an African medicine woman who was taken to Haiti and New Orleans as a slave.

The movie follows three Southern women — two sisters and one African American slave — who, left without men in the dying days of the Civil War, are forced to defend their home from the onslaught of a band of soldiers who have broken off from the fast approaching Union Army.

One of the more repellent details most people in this country would prefer to forget is how imported African women were abused as sex slaves, and how their black sons and brothers surely were too.

Earlier in the day, Hailee and Brit stopped by the Variety Studio at Holt Renfrew to promote the film, which is about three Southern women — two sisters and one African - American slave — who must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast - approaching Union Army.

Excerpts from Slave Narratives This wonderful resource includes more than 40 narratives including a European slave trader describing a shipboard revolt by enslaved Africans (1700); a doctor describing conditions on an English slaver (1788); Venture Smith relating the story of his kidnapping at age six (1798); a woman learning that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869); and a slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1Slave Narratives This wonderful resource includes more than 40 narratives including a European slave trader describing a shipboard revolt by enslaved Africans (1700); a doctor describing conditions on an English slaver (1788); Venture Smith relating the story of his kidnapping at age six (1798); a woman learning that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869); and a slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1slave trader describing a shipboard revolt by enslaved Africans (1700); a doctor describing conditions on an English slaver (1788); Venture Smith relating the story of his kidnapping at age six (1798); a woman learning that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869); and a slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1789).

This recently discovered manuscript, «The Bondwoman's Narrative,» is believed to be the first novel written by a female African American slave and possibly the first novel written by a black woman anywhere.

And then the warnings started to pour in: a woman, travelling alone in an African country, is inevitably going to be drugged, robbed, raped, and sold into the sex slave trade.

You play as Aveline de Grandpré, a half - French, half - African woman raised by her white father, after her freed - slave mother disappeared as a child.

3 The gendered narrative of women as dangerous temptresses is ubiquitous throughout history — as in the extraordinary prosecution of women as witches across the U.S. and Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries — but in Mutu's narrative, it is complicated further by the colonialism, slave trade, and identity endemic to African history.

While some Africans played respected, public roles, the names of most slaves and freed men and women are lost.

African American women are kids of previous slaves who were generated from Africa, several years back.