Sentences with phrase «american slave»

Tom marries a Native American slave, Irene.

Thomas explores the remnants of American slave culture by pressuring the intersections of marketing, consumption, and black identity.

The artist draws her content from many sources, including American slave narratives, genre paintings, Civil War battle reenactments, and «bodice ripper» romance novels.

For the 2003 Venice Biennale, Wilson created a mixed - media installation of many parts — focusing on Africans in Venice and issues and representations of blacks and whites — which included a suite of black glass sculptures; a black - and - white tiled room, with wall graffiti culled from texts of African - American slave narratives; and a video installation of «Othello,» screened backwards.

Given their military backgrounds, organizing a successful rebellion and escape was well within their aptitude, and became a persistent problem for American slave owners.

«He was one of his primary assistants and he was his slave... The American slave narrative is very different but this is a person who did not have his rights to himself.

Over at Kirkus today, I talk to Coretta Scott King Award - winning illustrator Michele Wood, quoted and pictured here, about Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song, released this month from Millbrook / Lerner.

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.

This bundle contains 11 ready - to - use Nat Turner Worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about Nat Turner who was an African - American slave born in Southampton County, Virginia.

John also used resources from the North American Slave Narrative collection in his humanities classes (a blended United States history and American literature class).

Andrea Bocelli -(born September 22, 1958) opera singer Dr. Jacob Bolotin -(1888 - 1924) First blind doctor Ray Charles -(September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004) American pianist and musician Jose Feliciano (born 1945) American singer Thomas Gore (December 10, 1870 - March 16, 1949) American senator Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) American author, activist, and lecturer David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) New York governor Marla Runyan (born January 4, 1969) marathon runner James Thurber (December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961) American cartoonist Erik Weihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) mountain climber Stevie Wonder (born May 13, 1950) American singer - songwriter Others who became visually impaired: W.C. Handy (1873 - 1958) Blues composer - went blind in middle age Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642) Astronomer Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) French painter Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) American president Harriet Tubman (c.1820 - March 10, 1913) American slave and slave freer

Seidel cites a passage from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in which Douglass recalls the impact of hearing fellow slaves singing in the middle of the night.

Steve McQueen is definitely one of the most challenging filmmakers working now — his star is rising after his considerable talents were discovered in his films Hunger and Shame, and now the West - Indian / British filmmaker is tackling the white whale (no pun intended) of the American slave trade with 12 Years a Slave, an adaptation of the autobiography of Solomon Northup.

A rum aspect of the Oscar nominations has been the inclusion of two films that concern American slavery, and which could not be more different: in Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino gives the American slave exactly the sort of empowerment he offered the Jews in Inglourious Basterds — blood - splatter violent and fantastical; in Lincoln, Steven Spielberg is happy to lean on the history books, for a respectful biopic.

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.

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.

Dr. King explains later that he cares not for American Slave laws and only wants Django's assistance locating the nefarious Brittle Brothers, who Django knows from his own tortured past.

«Django Unchained» follows Jamie Foxx as Django, a freed American slave who teams with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to save his wife from Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), an evil plantation owner.

My name is Isadore (I am Afro - American) came from my great grandmother (Afro - American Slave) who was a slave (the name has been pasted down family to family over the years.

And just as we no longer countenance slavery, which both Old and New Testaments regarded as normal, so we also no longer countenance the use of female slaves, concubines and captives as sexual toys or breeding machines by their male owners, which Leviticus 19:20 f., II Samuel 5:13 and Numbers 31:17 - 20 permitted — and as many American slave owners did slightly over 100 years ago.

Some of my African - American slave ancestors tried to leave me and my people a message about compassion that defies what many of us want to hear.

While researching the spiritual songs of African - American slaves I was surprised to come upon a line that commanded: «When you get to heaven, rub poor lil» Judas's head.»

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

Yes, this verse used to be used as a way to trick African - American slaves in the South into thinking God wanted them to obey him.

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.

She is not the first to question that; earlier this year, I read an intriguing essay by legal scholar Katherine Franke in the anthology, Marriage at the Crossroads Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty - First - Century Families, comparing the experience of African - American slaves who, once freed after the Civil War, also became free to marry — but «free» is a relative word.

A museum commemorating some of the local people and places that helped escaped African - American slaves find freedom in Canada formally opened its doors Friday.

A new party called Descendants of Americans Slaves has qualified two candidates for the Kentucky state legislature.

In Liberia, for example, freed American slaves who relocated to the West African country in the 1800s experienced the highest mortality rates ever recorded.

9,700 pages of primary source oral history documents containing the testimonies of former African American Slaves, and 401 photographs.

One of the countless brutal indignities inflicted upon American slaves was that, as a group, they were denied the chance to read and write.

No, it's too gravely serious for that, for this is an epitaph to American slaves, penned centuries late.

Slaves and the Courts, 1740 - 1860 Primary sources on the experiences of African and African - American slaves in the American colonies and United States.

Prior to the Civil War, African American slaves were forbidden by law to learn how to read and write.

The section of the book set in the sea islands of South Carolina depicts eighteenth - century indigo plantations where African American slaves and overseers are left largely to their own devices during the «sick season» — a good half of the year.

* Black Britons (or Black Loyalists) was the term used to describe former North American slaves or free blacks who joined the British Army against the colonists in the American Revolutionary War.

The art world had no ready story to explain these startling affinities, although some critics noted that African sources had fed both modernist painting and sculpture and the sensibilities of American slaves» descendents.

It soon became a popular destination for freed African - American slaves looking for a better education system and infrastructure, but the arrival of «Negro Districts» in the late 1920s set Clarksville in a downward spiral.

Not exact matches

He became a prominent national leader for African Americans and a leading voice for former slaves and their descendants.

Getting them to an American jewelry store often involves destructive pit mining, slave or child labor, violent militias, and a long chain of middlemen that makes it hard to connect any of those undesirable inputs to the end product.

Performance by an actor in a supporting role Barkhad Abdi in «Captain Phillips» Bradley Cooper in «American Hustle» Michael Fassbender in «12 Years a Slave» Jonah Hill in «The Wolf of Wall Street» Jared Leto in «Dallas Buyers Club» * WINNER

Best motion picture of the year «American Hustle» Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon, Producers «Captain Phillips» Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers «Dallas Buyers Club» Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers «Gravity» Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers «Her» Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers «Nebraska» Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers «Philomena» Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward, Producers «12 Years a Slave» Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers * WINNER «The Wolf of Wall Street» Nominees to be determined

Achievement in production design «American Hustle» Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler «Gravity» Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard «The Great Gatsby» Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn * WINNER «Her» Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena «12 Years a Slave» Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker

Achievement in directing «American Hustle» David O. Russell «Gravity» Alfonso Cuarón * WINNER «Nebraska» Alexander Payne «12 Years a Slave» Steve McQueen «The Wolf of Wall Street» Martin Scorsese

«American Hustle» Michael Wilkinson «The Grandmaster» William Chang Suk Ping «The Great Gatsby» Catherine Martin * WINNER «The Invisible Woman» Michael O'Connor «12 Years a Slave» Patricia Norris

As Stuart Banner explores in his book The Death Penalty: An American History, one of the earliest American - made capital statutes — as opposed to ones borrowed from England — was passed in New York in the aftermath of a 1712 slave revolt.

But what a lot of people don't consider is that we have watched our own mothers and fathers work their entire lives, slaving away for the American dream, only to obtain the house with the picket fence and still be unhappy.

In 1918, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips published «American Negro Slavery,» which framed slavery as a labor agreement between masters and happy slaves — facile thinking that persists today.

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New American Standard Bible (© 1995) Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;