Sentences with phrase «american runaway slave»

Haiti had laws, back in the 1800s, welcoming to Haiti any American runaway slave anywhere in the world, and many former American slaves went to Haiti where they acquired land and had a family.

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A number of modern urban newspapers, such as the Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times — Dispatch, and the Hartford Courant ran advertisements before the Civil War for the sale of slaves or the recapture of runaways; all four of the major North American railroads own rail lines that were built with slave labor; the founder of Lehman Bros. bought slaves as workers for the firm when it was founded in pre — Civil War Alabama.

The pursuit of wild hogs has terminated with the rewards for runaway slaves; and in this age of railways and steam navigation, the flitches of American bacon in the provision shops have driven out of the market the jerked hog of the Maroon.

The cast featured an African - American actor as Huck and a white actor as Jim, the runaway slave.

Victor is a bounty hunter tasked with finding runaway slaves, which puts him in an understandably awkward (if that understatement will do here) position: he uses his race to ingratiate himself into the lives of other African - Americans whom he will eventually betray.

Like his fellow members of the «Yellow Pocahontas» tribe, Montana is black; the unique Mardi Gras Indian tradition he celebrates, with its headdresses and traditional Native American chants meant to honour the indigenous people who sheltered runaway slaves, complicate contemporary conversations about cultural appropriation.

ceiba: reconsidering ephemeral spaces explores topics implicative of transcultural migration through a multimedia installation centered around Fort Mose in St. Augustine, Florida, an area founded in 1739 by runaway African slaves and Native Americans fleeing British persecution.