Sentences with phrase «descendants of slaves from»

The Gee family sold the plantation to Mark Pettway in 1845, and most present - day residents, including many of the Gee's Bend quilters, are descendants of slaves from the former Pettway plantation.

Others are descendants of the historical Trans - Saharan trade in peoples and / or, and after the Arab invasions of North Africa in the 7th century, descendants of slaves from the Arab Slave Trade in North Africa.

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This social transformation represents a remarkable, unparalleled experience; in barely the span of a generation, and with comparatively little violence, a despised and largely disenfranchised minority descendant from chattel slaves used the courts, the legislature, the press, and the rights of petition and assembly of the republic to force a redefinition of their citizenship.

The American Black slave is a descendant from the God of Jacob & the Star of Jacob is Christ (Psalm 77:15) * Exodus 11:7 *

We're a long way from the back - to - back Best Picture success of «12 Years a Slave» and «Birdman,» plus Oscar favorites like «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» «Slumdog Millionaire,» «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» and «The Descendants.»

They didn't know that we were a people of different cultures, descendants from the native Taino Indians, the Spaniards who colonized the island and the African slaves who were brought unwillingly to the Caribbean islands.

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.

The Garinagu are descendants of Carib Indians (South American natives who settled on the Caribbean island of St Vincent) and West Africans who were said to have escaped from Spanish slave ships in 1635 and made the island their home.

The Garifunas are descendants of African slaves who were deported by the British from the Caribbean island of St. Vincent in the mid1800s.

Finally, a quick run over the Williamsburg Bridge to the condemned Domino Sugar Factory for the stunning tour de force sphinx — its Aunt Jemima head bound in a bandana, its rump fleshing out a scatalogical valentine — that Kara Walker worked from eight tons of white sugar into a stinging visual metaphor for the sugar cane that America's slaves harvested to enrich their masters and the refined processed sugar that is killing the descendants of both.

In Codex, his most recently completed project, Biggers continues to probe these themes through another stylistic departure: painting on historical quilts, many of which were gifts to the artist from descendants of slave owners.

Jaar's light box and Dawit L. Petros» Act of Recovery, a print of people standing on a coast before a sunken ship, questions the ways the term African American, in its intended use for descendants of African slaves in the United States, obscures the identities of South American descendant of slaves and the more recent histories of black immigrants living in the United States from the Caribbean or Africa.