Sentences with phrase «by plantation owners»

Using art objects commissioned by plantation owners for their mansions — among them the first landscape images painted in the region — the show also explores the culture of tobacco, its workers, its marketing, and its associations with modernity.

Thus, we see how the sexualization and rape of sisters by plantation owners and their being forced to mate with strangers for breeding purposes rather than for love when added to the inability of emasculated brothers to protect their females have contributed to a distance and distrust still in evidence.

Solomon is purchased by plantation owner, Mr. Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch, Star Trek Into Darkness), a complex character who seems appalled by the harsher aspects of slavery, but not so much that he'll stop buying slaves.

The Cobblers Cove main house, now known as the Great House, was built in 1943 by plantation owner Joss Haynes and has undergone extensive renovations and expansion works over the years to complete its transformation from a family beach house to a luxury boutique resort hotel.

One advantage was that if a labourer was evicted by a plantation owner or had to go elsewhere for work, the home could easily be dismantled and moved.

Not exact matches

The likelihood that Maunsel White and Edmund McIlhenny were more than mere acquaintances is certainly enhanced by the fact that prominent New Orleans banker Edmund McIlhenny married plantation owner Daniel Averys daughter, Mary Eliza Avery, on June 30, 1859 in St. James Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge.

Six months later (as we enter the middle third of the movie), after the duo have become bounty hunting partners, the pair finally set off in search of their main goal — rescuing Djagno's wife Broomhilda, a slaved played by Kerry Washington who has been sold to a nasty Mandingo baron and plantation owner Calvin Candie (played with delicious relish by Leonardo DiCaprio).

That arrangement sets the pieces in motion for a riotous buddy comedy in which the duo capture plenty of bounty before hurtling toward their final target, wealthy plantation owner Calvin Candy (Leonardo DiCaprio, over the top even by these standards), who keeps Broomhilda locked up in a dismal existence at the appropriately - titled Candyland.

There are encounters with a comical predecessor of the KKK (led by a terrifically over the top Don Johnson), a small town sheriff who is not what he seems and, of course, the very proper southern gentleman / Mandingo fighting aficionado and plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio)-- and his right hand plantation man, house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson, stealing every scene he's in in a scary, mean, dangerously funny role).

The trail leads to the immense plantation Candyland, owned by the brutal and racist slave owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

The former owner of a sugar plantation, he's been imprisoned by Fidel Castro for 20 years while she's emigrated to the United States.

They quickly learn that Broomhilda, called Hildy, has been purchased by one Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the scion of a long line of slave owners and the overseer of Candyland, one of the biggest (and thus meanest) plantations in the South.

There's a marvelous episode with a plantation owner who is played by Don Johnson and looks like Colonel Sanders, an episode that includes a lynch - mob scene that plays like a «Mr. Show» sketch.

The veteran plans to write a book about his father, a plantation owner, but soon gets caught up in a series of mysterious murders in the town, and the secrets kept by the townsfolk.

Effectively shot by McQueen's longtime cinematographer Sean Bobbitt on several real Louisiana plantations, «12 Years» explores a number of odd corners of the slavery situation, like the slave Mistress Shaw (Alfre Woodard) who is married to the plantation owner and serves an elaborate tea on Sunday mornings.

Rating: R Year: 1999 Cast: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright Director: Ang Lee After his family is massacred by Union marauders, a plantation owner's son and his best friend create a rag - tag group of Confederate guerrillas to seek revenge.

Based on a true story, the plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

He's joined by Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz, and Leonardo DiCaprio as Candyland plantation owner Calvin Candie, with Samuel L. Jackson.

The plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

This occupation serves him, and his master's (Hammer) well when he is hired by neighboring plantation owners to come and preach to their slaves to keep them in - line.

He soon was being hired - out by his master Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer) to other plantations, whose owners wanted Nat to preach scripture to their slaves, convincing them that they should stay obedient, even under the terrible conditions of slavery.

«Django Unchained «Synopsis: A freed slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) teams up with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to track down his wife (Kerry Washington) and liberate her from her plantation owners led by the sadistic Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

By the time Leonardo DiCaprio's charming but villainous plantation owner is introduced, however, the movie starts to lose steam.

There, he is purchased by the beautiful niece (de Havilland's Arabella) of a vicious plantation owner (Lionel Atwill's Col. Bishop), but during an attack on the colony by a Spanish armada, Blood takes to the ocean aboard a stolen army vessel.

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).

Played with wide - eyed determination and desperation by an excellent Chiwetel Ejiofor, Solomon is a free man who is tricked by a couple of young shysters into losing his free papers and becoming a slave, where he remains for more than a decade under the mastery of two different plantation owners — the benevolent William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) and emasculated, tyrannical Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender).

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.

This film takes us back to the great depression era on the west coast where hordes of homeless roamed the lands looking for jobs and were taken advantage of by wealthy plantation owners.

Would - be authors — especially first - timers — may also be turned off by getting caught in the clutches of editors and agents who can intimidate them into walking gingerly with hat in hand so as not to upset the plantation owners and overseers.

According to the International Slavery Museum, «Cricket was watched only by «highly respectable ladies and gentlemen», while the plantation owners prepared the cricket field and provided the hospitality... Cricket was taught in missionary schools in order to impart English values to the indigenous people.»

Angels Watching Over Me by Michael Phillips — 4 stars, 232 reviews — Two young Southern girls, one the daughter of a plantation owner and one the daughter of a slave, barely survive the onset of the Civil War and the loss of both their families.

The plantation owners broke up their lands into small plots to be cultivated by individual tenants.

I have co-authored / edited several history books produced by my publishing company and recently released my first work of fiction, a novel about a time travelling, slave owning cotton plantation owner.

The city was founded by investors across a number of industries, including cotton plantation owners, bankers and railroad entrepreneurs, and still have a diverse economy.

Paso Fino — A Spanish breed, the Paso Fino was originally created by Puerto Rican and Columbian plantation owners who wanted horses with good endurance and a smooth gait.

The poet Bulhão Pato, writing of Ponta Delgada, was surprised by the extraordinary riches of the plantation owners, the «gentlemen farmers» that lived within the urbanized core: exporters of oranges and corn, bankers, investors, industrialists and shippers, all contributing to a privileged class of economic and social thinkers and philanthropists.

Step inside the colonial - era great house owned by Jamaica's largest plantation owner in the 1700s.

One book by a local author, «The Suicide Club» (huge gambling in Matara), Herman Gunaratne, owner of an Ahangama tea plantation with great tours very close by, takes readers on a journey through the British plantation Raj during its heyday and what has become of it all in these post-colonial times... interesting read...!

The piece illustrates a meeting between Princess Augusta and plantation owner Eliza Lucas Pinckney in 1753, for which the latter wore a dress made from silk produced on her land by slaves.

A Confederate soldier (portrayed by Andrew Hoisington, standing) and a Southern plantation owner (portrayed by Thomas Tear) strike a formal pose during a reenactment of the 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia.

The city was founded by investors across a number of industries, including cotton plantation owners, bankers and railroad entrepreneurs, and still have a diverse economy.

The cemetary there is a labor of love by the owners of plantation during the civil war for thr confederate soldiers who lost their lives in the Battle of Franklin.