Sentences with phrase «by slave owners»

While insiders characterize Luter's anticipated election as a watershed moment for a denomination started by slave owners, some observers outside the SBC voice skepticism about the true potential impact on race relations.

But all people are no Christian secondly we as African Americans was taught by our slave owners of Christianity.

Platt's first master, William Ford (the ever - present Benedict Cumberbatch), is relatively enlightened by slave owner standards, but even he can only do so much when Platt gets into a bitter dispute with a thoroughly racist overseer (an adept Paul Dano).

Not exact matches

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.»

This was true to some extent even for the poor within the limits set by feudal landlords and slave owners.

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 sueBy 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 sueby 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.

Here for instance is a speech given by the Rev. Jesse Jackson in New York and Chicago in which he compares the Christian Coalition to Nazis, slave owners, and Jim Crow segregationists.

Standing in the place of the slave owner's wife, the mammy became the «premier house servant who, though given considerable authority by her owners and admired for her expertise in domestic matters, remained captive.

The exact same religion that was used by whip - wielding slave - owners to justify their hatred of dark skin, of a foreign people they had enslaved by force.

Slavey was CONDEMNED by Jesus and the Old Testament so the slave owners in fact were worshiping the creation of man, the anti-Christ.

There are some major differences in the rights that slaves were granted by their owners in Rome, circa 40 AD, and the rights granted to the slaves that are sold in Vancouver BC in 2000 AD, and the slaves sold at public outcry in Riyadh Saudia Arabia in 2010 AD, and the slaves that were sold in Washington DC in 1850.

While you talk about us multiplying to 40 million here, why don't you include how White Americans (slave owners) helped grow our population by breeding us like cattle during slavery time?

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:

This vegetable was brought to North America by English colonists and they played an important role during the slavery days when the turnip greens were left for the slaves while the root was consumed by the landlord and owner.

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).

The first opens on a dusty road on the eve of the Civil War, as the avuncular Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz) claims chain gang slave Django (Jamie Foxx) by violently disposing of his two owners (one of them is James Remar, who crops up later in the second of these three films in a different role).

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).

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.

He's well supported by Michael Fassbender's and Benedict Cumberbatch's very different slave owners, the heartbreaking Lupita Nyong» o as a fellow slave, and Brad Pitt in a key cameo.

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.

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 Kerryman was nominated by the Academy in the Best Supporting Actor category for the first time for his role as a brutal slave owner 12 Years A Sslave owner 12 Years A SlaveSlave.

Educated, married and living in New York, Northup was lured by a job offer in Washington only to be kidnapped and put in a slave pen, leading to years of enslavement under various owners.

Yet these moments are more than balanced by scenes of genuine originality, horror and truth, as when we see images of naked slaves on display in a genteel parlor, or, most unforgettably, become witnesses to the nighttime entertainments of the mad slave owner (Fassbender), who insists that his slaves dance for him.

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.

For instance, there's a scene where Professor Tolson (Denzel Washington) attempts instill some self respect in his pupils by quoting from Willie Lynch's 1712 speech supposedly delivered to fellow slave owners about how to mold and control the minds of their slaves.

In that film, Caesar was raised by a circus owner (Ricardo Montalban) and became the Che Guevara / Malcom X / Black Panther-esque leader of apes who were turned into slaves by humans.

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.»

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.

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).

As an adult, he became a preacher, used by his owner (Armie Hammer) to speak calming words to unruly slaves.

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).

Fassbender is wild - eyed as the slave owner emasculated by his shrewish, controlling wife (Sarah Paulson), Cumberbatch is warm and paternal as the slightly - more - compassionate Ford, and Pauls Dano and Giamatti have a particular flair for playing despicable characters that they display here.

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.

Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near - death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors» reports of recent immigrants and refugees.

Aided by the free black community in progressive Philadelphia, where slave owners were required to free slaves after a six - month residency (a law that Washington subverted by rotating his slaves to and from his Virginia estate, Mount Vernon), Judge fled to Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

For VickyS, and anyone else, unfamiliar with it, the Fugitive Slave Act passed by Congress in 1850 gave slave owners and their hired agents the right to pursue and capture escaped slaves, even in the free states of the NSlave Act passed by Congress in 1850 gave slave owners and their hired agents the right to pursue and capture escaped slaves, even in the free states of the Nslave owners and their hired agents the right to pursue and capture escaped slaves, even in the free states of the North.

It shows the cruelty of the false hopes raised by those masters pretending to «humane» treatment, through promises of manumission extended as a calculated tool to secure loyalty when an owner took the risk of educating a slave for office work, for example; or the deceitful «kindness» used to secure compliance of seemingly freed slaves, in perpetuating programs of sterilization, medical experimentation, and of course cheap labor.

The uncertainty of how one would be treated by a white owner, coupled with the uncertainty of not being able to trust some of your fellow slaves was well conveyed by the author.

The «American Colonization Society» was supported by two very different groups: abolitionists who wanted to free African slaves and their descendants and «repatriate» them, and slave owners who feared free people of color and wanted to expel them from America.

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.

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 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.

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.

Plantation owners introduced clock time to further regulate the labour of slaves in order to keep up with the increasing demand fueled by a developing industrialization, particularly in Britain.