Sentences with phrase «against slave owners»

The film — directed and written by Nate Parker, who also stars in the lead role — focuses on the story of Turner, the Virginia slave who led a rebellion against slave owners in 1831.

Nat Turner, who led an aborted rebellion against his slave owners in 1831, is the subject of a Pulitzer prize - winning novel by William Styron, «The Confessions of Nat Turner.»

When they do get to the topic of the movie, he has to deal with the barely concealed racism of questions about how many white people are killed in this movie about a uprising against slave owners (His response, pointing out that the anger about the depiction of killing in a movie is misguided compared to real - world killing, is spot - on).

After sweeping the grand jury and audience awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Nate Parker's directorial debut, in which he plays slave Nat Turner who orchestrates an uprising against slave owners in Virginia, is receiving a lot of award - season heat.

Not exact matches

It wouldn't have taken long before the starving slaves and their starving owners would have rebelled against their fledgling country's government, descending the entire South into utter chaos and ruin.

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.»

JLS1950 The slave owners that they were fighting against were also Christians.

Ironic how people get worked up when the Los Angeles Clipper's owner doesn't want his girlfriend to associate with black people, but don't have a problem discriminating against anyone who is not Christian, or don't care that the founding fathers were some of the most racist people on Earth and actually owned slaves.

But if the early church could survive — and in fact, thrive amidst persecution — when it included both Jews and Gentiles, zealots and tax collectors, slaves and owners, men and women, those in support of circumcision and those against it, those staunchly opposed to eating food that had been sacrificed to idols and those who felt it necessary, then I think modern American Christianity can survive when it includes democrats and republicans, biblical literalists and biblical non-literalists, Calvinists and Arminians... so long as we're not rooting for one another's demise.

The NFL is NOT slavery, but the exact same forces are at play when you recall that it was against the law to teach a slave to read because the owners couldn't have them getting too smart.

If we could force Silent Stan to sell then I would turn up for what - ever protest would be held, I just refuse to protest against the owners puppets (slaves or employees, what - ever we wan na call them).

He may have had some bad words for it, but he was a vicious slave owner who exploited his slaves mercilessly and campaigned against manumission, for example.

I did notice on realdeal.com's Deal Sheet section that for many years, nail salons had no problem paying very high rents in some parts of Manhattan and they were notable for doing so but because of the agit prop in NYC against landlords, I have personally heard from Chinatown brokers what this article (translated by Google Chrome browser) propagates that retailers are the slaves of the building owner and this comment was made by someone who looks forward to owning their own nail salon:

If you're against black women dating white men because a small percentage of white men owned slaves 150 years ago, you have to be against all black people dating any white person because they could all be descendants of slave owners.

While revenge narratives are often highly problematic in the way they represent certain aspects of society as deserving a violent death, Tarantino creates revenge narratives against characters that nobody in their right mind would sympathise with — Nazis in Inglourious Basterds and now sadistic slave owners in Django Unchained.

Nyong» o not only holds her own against the heavyweights but also shines in the role of Patsey, a slave who attracts the unwanted obsession of her owner (Fassbender).

The film, which was written, directed and stars Nate Parker, tells the story of Nat Turner, a Virginia slave who organized a revolt in 1831 against white slave owners to free African - Americans.

«The Birth of a Nation» Lowdown: Nate Parker's directs and stars in this true story about a former slave that sparks a rebellion against white slave owners in Virginia in 1831.

Starring Matthew McConaughey «s sneer, «Free State of Jones» tells the true story of Newton Knight, a man who deserted the Confederate Army during the Civil War and created his own militia of other deserters and freed slaves who fought back against the Rebs and their predations on poor local land owners.

Inglourious Basterds made a strong statement against the Nazi's, while this latest goes hard after slave owners.

Set against the antebellum South, THE BIRTH OF A NATION follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves.

The slaves are getting ready to stage a rebellion against their owners and it's up to us to help them or not.