Sentences with phrase «by slave traders»

A boy captured by slave traders in eighteenth - century Africa is brought to the Americas.

The homecoming proves to be far from sweet, and before one can say «Murphy's Law,» Maximus is captured by slave traders, who then sell him to Proximo (the late Oliver Reed), a trainer of Roman gladiators.

Language: English Genre: Action / Thriller MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Pierre Morel Actors: Xander Berkeley, Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace Plot: An ex-CIA agent calls upon his skills when his estranged daughter is abducted by slave traders.

Northup, renamed Platt by a slave trader, is played with unwavering conviction by British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor.

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This is evident in every Baptist's favorite hymn, «Amazing Grace,» written by the Anglican Calvinist and former slave trader, John Newton.

Peppers may have been brought into North America by coastal traders or slaves born in the West Indies, where European explorers described the use of hot peppers to enliven the native dishes.

From the eighth century onward, the Indian Ocean was the scene of extensive trade of sub-Saharan African slaves via sea routes controlled by Muslim Arab and Swahili traders.

The wounded Maximus collapses and is captured by a passing slave trader, who sells him and a black man named Juba (Djimon Hounsou) to Proximo (Oliver Reed, unfortunately sharing no screen time with fellow hell - raiser Harris) who trains both men as gladiators.

Schultz and Django first meet outside civilisation when the bounty hunter meets the slave chained to four others being led to market by brutal traders out west.

A light nudge, I'm sure), played by the incredible Christoph Waltz, inquires upon two traveling slave traders looking for a specific purchase they may have made recently that goes by the name of Django (Jamie Foxx).

Considering its notoriously troubled history — the $ 175 million project, directed by first - timer Carl Rinsch, went into production almost three years ago — some blatant re-cutting is expected; the Dejima episode, where Ôishi goes to rescue Kai from Dutch slave traders, feels like a severely shortened version of a longer sequence.

Excerpts from Slave Narratives This wonderful resource includes more than 40 narratives including a European slave trader describing a shipboard revolt by enslaved Africans (1700); a doctor describing conditions on an English slaver (1788); Venture Smith relating the story of his kidnapping at age six (1798); a woman learning that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869); and a slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1Slave Narratives This wonderful resource includes more than 40 narratives including a European slave trader describing a shipboard revolt by enslaved Africans (1700); a doctor describing conditions on an English slaver (1788); Venture Smith relating the story of his kidnapping at age six (1798); a woman learning that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869); and a slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1slave trader describing a shipboard revolt by enslaved Africans (1700); a doctor describing conditions on an English slaver (1788); Venture Smith relating the story of his kidnapping at age six (1798); a woman learning that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869); and a slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1789).

Fischer: During my second year of teaching, in the mid-1970s, I recall simulating the African slave trade by having students rotating on a daily basis for about a week various roles associated with that topic — tribal chief, slave trader, colonial buyer, and slave.

Zilpah was Laban's daughter by a slave named Mer - Nefat, who had been purchased from an Egyptian trader in the days when Laban still had means.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi This novel spans three continents recounting the origin of the slave trade on the Gold Coast of Africa to the traders in England and the plantations in America and its effects on one family across multiple generations.

Her savvy translator is Cecilia, a teenage slave who remembers being captured in the Congo when she was eight years old and sold to a trader by her own father.

Instead, during a tour of Cape Coast Castle, one of about 30 slave castles built in Ghana by European traders, «Homegoing» was born.