Sentences with phrase «white slave masters»

During slavery, White slave masters would hold auctions to sell Black people, displaying their distinguishing qualities as form of proof for overall worth.

A son and grandson of slaves, Nat, at a young age, was provided the unique opportunity to learn how to read by the sister of his white slave master.

Not exact matches

The long record of racial mixing under slavery between masters and female slaves (as in the much - debated case of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings) produced populations that were so lightskinned that they passed into white society (as several of Sally Hemings» children did) and populations so darkskinned that they lost all memory of the white European genes they inherited.

As Roger Wertheimer once put it, the black slave looked to the white master like «some sort of demiperson, a blathering beast of burden.»

Our last subject in the race for the 36th Council District seat is the Rev. Conrad Tillard, formerly known as Conrad Muhammad, formerly known as Conrad X. Reverend Tillard first came to public attention as the chief youth minister of the Nation of Islam, and then the minister of Harlem's famed Mosque No. 7, the former seat of Malcolm X. Reverend Tillard made some conventionally controversial remarks against white devils and Jewish slave masters, etc. from that esteemed perch, was later stripped of his ministry under a cloud of suspicion, and then underwent a second Damascene moment when he left the NOI and returned to the faith of his fathers, receiving baptism by the Reverend Calvin Butts.

Half asian half white registered unowned crossdresser sex slave seeking a Master to own me I can cook japanese, italian, and some.american dishes, can clean.

41 y / o White Master looking for Slave boy to serve me and my partner in the Wetumpka area on a daily basis

Nate Parker stars as Nat Turner, a fairly humble, hard - working slave who is taught to read because one of his white masters gives him a copy of the bible.

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When she hears two slaves wishing for a map to the Underground Railroad, Clara creates a patchwork quilt that — unknown to the white masters of her plantation — serves as a map that points the way to freedom along the Underground Railroad.

High John, the myth goes, came from Africa to confound the white masters and to ultimately free the slaves.

So, I suspect that the white masters sleeping with their female slaves is just one... - gwendolyndawson

The female slaves were considered property - to be used by the white master for his economic or physical needs.

So, I suspect that the white masters sleeping with their female slaves is just one more example of asserting power over other human beings.

Rhett helped lead the way for generations of white Southerners who propagated the «Lost Cause» myth: the gauzy tale of kindly slave masters who had fought only for states» rights.

Slaves didn't have birthday parties like the white children of Master or the white folk that either worked for Master or lived on the larder of his home.

There's a big cast of characters, white and black, master and slave, good and bad, honorable and despicable, their lives intertwined.

Finally, a quick run over the Williamsburg Bridge to the condemned Domino Sugar Factory for the stunning tour de force sphinx — its Aunt Jemima head bound in a bandana, its rump fleshing out a scatalogical valentine — that Kara Walker worked from eight tons of white sugar into a stinging visual metaphor for the sugar cane that America's slaves harvested to enrich their masters and the refined processed sugar that is killing the descendants of both.