Sentences with phrase «bound escaped slaves»
The priest is Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke), and he tends to a small, barely - attended church that remains open solely because of its historical import; located in upstate New York, the church was once a stop on the Underground Railroad for Canada - bound escaped slaves.
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An accident causes the chain binding him to other slaves, giving him the opportunity to escape, dragging one other slave with him.
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.
Night Coming Tenderly, Black Dawoud Bey at St. John's Episcopal Church For this FRONT commission, the artist has created a series of brooding photographs evoking the imagined experience of escaped slaves moving northward through the city of Cleveland and the surrounding area to Lake Erie and boats bound for Canada.