Sentences with phrase «also slave owners»

He noted that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were also slave owners and added: «I wonder, is it George Washington next week?

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

1 By the same token, if the object of reparations litigation is to be the descendants of slave - owners, what do we do when many of those who sue are themselves descendants of those same slave - owners, and also belong, by reasons of racial mixing, to the class of those being sued?

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.

But that same God also told the owners to love and treat their slaves as brothers.

I suspect you will come with up with a number greater than zero, but I also suspect the actual number is much, much less than the number of slave owners.

In America it was a little different though because the aristocratic society tended to be the slave owners in the south and they also tended to be anti monarchy but pro federal government, pro standing army, and pro collecting taxes from states.

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 — 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.

Analysts also say that William Ford, the slave owner played by Benedict Cumberbatch (who has slavery issues in the family closet), has also been rendered less sympathetic on screen than he was in the book.

Of course, many slaves were also killed and the fallout was that slave owners became more wary of the possible actions of slaves... while it also provided a glimmer of hope, and generational stories, for those who remained enslaved.

The Weinstein Company's «Django Unchained,» which is set for a Christmas Day release, also had four nominations, including one for Outstanding Motion Picture and an Outstanding Actor nomination for Foxx, who plays a slave - turned - bounty hunter attempting to rescue his wife from a Mississippi plantation owner.

Thomas, who also does photography and film and other media, once made an exhibit of Nike «swoosh» logos superimposed onto the bodies of black men, recalling the branding of slaves by their owners.