Sentences with phrase «as escaped slave»

First, this caveat: I've still not seen three films said to be strong contenders, so it's too early to list these here: «Les Miserables,» directed by Tom Hooper, who made «The King's Speech;» Kathryn Bigelow's «Zero Dark Thirty,» about the killing of Bin Laden, and Quentin Tarantino's «Django Unchained,» with Jamie Foxx as an escaped slave and Leonardo DiCaprio as a plantation owner.

Not exact matches

Pretty strong language, but no stronger than the metaphor Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation used, in an op - ed article in The Washington Times, to «describe a bill designed to prevent corporations from rechartering abroad for tax purposes: Mitchell described this legislation as the «Dred Scott tax bill,» referring to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that required free states to return escaped slaves.

We would be the only Christians born as slaves to sin, never to escape.

Indeed, one law in Exodus, intended to make the lot of slaves more tolerable, goes only so far as to declare the owner liable to punishment if, in beating a slave, he kills him outright, whereas if the wounded slave «continue a day or two» the owner escapes penalty, «for he is his money.

God went on to say that he had seen the suffering of the Israelites, Abraham's descendants, who at the time of Joseph had come to Egypt to escape a widespread famine and had become slaves to the Egyptians and their rulers, known as Pharaohs.

«The technique of jerking was originated by the Maroons, Jamaican slaves who escaped from the British during the invasion of 1655 and hid in the maze of jungles and limestone sinkholes known as the Cockpit Country.

The technique of jerking was originated by the Maroons, Jamaican slaves that escaped from the British during the invasion of 1655 and hid in the maze of jungles and limestone sinkholes known as the Cockpit Country.

The sites announced Friday include an early black community along the Hudson Valley that served as a refuge for freed and escaped slaves, a commercial district in Utica with roots stretching back nearly 200 years, and a Catskills retreat that belonged to a 19th century businessman who made his money in soda fountains.

In John Sayles» science - fiction comedy The Brother from Another Planet, the Brother (Joe Morton) arrives on Earth as an escaped alien slave, running from two white Men in Black (David Strathairn and John Sayles), who are also aliens.

Alfre Woodard has a knowing cameo as a planter's mistress who schools Solomon in the reality for genteel female slaves: submitting to lust is less onerous than backbreaking work in the fields (Patsey escapes neither).

The 37 - year - old musician serves as the executive producer for the forthcoming series about a group of slaves planning their escape from a Georgia plantation.

He is ordered to be killed but manages to escape, ending up in the hands of slave trader Proximo (Oliver Reed), who pits him into the Roman Colosseum as a gladiator.

When Wark proclaims that he's «always had trouble drawing nigger faces,» and so paints white men's faces on the bodies of black slaves, the poignancy of that movement, independent of its inherent poignancy, identifies Junebug as something like an allegory for the ways that we deny the things we can't escape.

The two roles have similar elements; Han's in love with Qi» ra (Emilia Clarke) as he also schemes to escape — whereas here, he's an indentured teen slave.

The film stars Jamie Foxx as Django, an escaped slave who goes to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from sadistic... Continue reading →

The film stars Jamie Foxx as Django, an escaped slave who goes to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) by teaming up with bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz).

But as the stories of Eliza's life as a slave on a southern cotton plantation and her daring escape from her slaveholders come to light, Johanna's respect, then love, builds for her peer.

Sandwiched among the dramatic vignettes of the story, Greenwood pauses to pepper the book with historical sidebars about the «secret code» language used by those who helped shuttle slaves north to safety; a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman, known as «Moses» to those along the route; a brief history of storytelling among southern slaves; a scientific explanation for the «swamp ghosts» many slaves encountered along their escape routes; an inside look at some of the methods used to hide slaves from capture; and much, much more.

Slaves who escaped the plantations came to be known as «Maroons» (the term for a runaway slave in the West Indies and Americas, from the Spanish word cimarrón, meaning wild).

Thirteen - year old Nepalese Lakshmi has been sold as a sex slave by her stepfather, but she refuses to let horrific abuse smother her dreams of escape or quench her desire to find a better life away from the degradation and humiliation of her situation in India.

Victor, a black bounty hunter who tracks down escaped slaves, is on the trail of an escapee known as Jackdaw, and his pursuit will take many dramatic twists and turns.

The letters that follow are filled with the stories of Wang's previous lives — from escaping a marriage to a spirit bride, to being a slave on the run from Genghis Khan, to living as a fisherman during the Opium Wars, and being a teenager on the Red Guard during the cultural revolution — bound to his mysterious «soulmate,» spanning one thousand years of betrayal and intrigue.

I found out that she had been brought from an Asian country to New York as a slave, and eventually escaped with the help of police.

When Roric was born little did he know that his family would die violently as he watched and that his world would crumble only to later find himself chained into the life of a slave forced to survive in the world of the arena where every match meant death for someone, but he survived and one day he escaped.

I can understand why, since Levi and Catherine Coffin were instrumental in helping over 2,000 runaway slaves, or freedom seekers as they were called, escape to Canada over a twenty - year period.

In the 1700s, St. Vincent served as a refuge for escaped African slaves who had been brought to the Caribbean by Europeans.

One particular platformer that stood out for me was Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, a game in which you start off as a slave in a meat factory before being forced to escape after overhearing the plan of the evil boss.

You play as Monkey, a prisoner that has escaped a slave ship, and had the misfortune of stumbling across Trip, another prisoner.

It would have been great to, say, incite a riot as the Slave, and then use the panic of the noblesse to escape into a guarded area as the Lady, only to reveal herself as the Assassin when the moment is right, but a set - up like that can't be generated by the player.

The family heirlooms played a role in the story of emancipation by functioning as coded maps that guided escaped slaves to freedom.

In some cases these groups of escaped slaves fought open wars against colonists» forces, as is the case with one famous instance in Florida, when a group was granted freedom in an agreement that predates the Emancipation Proclamation.

In 1970, he traveled to Belize as part of his study of the history of slavery and of the «maroon republics» founded by escaped slaves throughout Latin America.

In 1970, White traveled to Belize as part of his study of the history of slavery and of the «maroon republics» founded by escaped slaves throughout Latin America.

Still, jury nullification has been used in many U.S. cases, such as pre-Civil War cases that tried people for helping escaped slaves and Prohibition cases that tried people for violating the ban on alcohol.

First off, as I tell every US attorney when I'm dealing with them in a federal case where I have no defenses, that if slavery was legal I would still advise people how to help escaped slaves remain free because I think it's our moral imperative that we do things that are moral, and I think that prohibiting people from using medication which we know works — which we would have more peer view journal studies showing that it worked — if the federal government didn't make doing the studies so difficult.

Both the Hero and Prince Harry spent ten years labouring as slaves until they managed to escape.