Sentences with phrase «escaped slaves»

The go - to example in favor of nullification is the fugitive slave law: when Northern juries refused to convict escaped slaves and set them free.

First off, as I tell every US attorney when I'm dealing with them in a federal case where I have no defenses, that if slavery was legal I would still advise people how to help escaped slaves remain free because I think it's our moral imperative that we do things that are moral, and I think that prohibiting people from using medication which we know works — which we would have more peer view journal studies showing that it worked — if the federal government didn't make doing the studies so difficult.

Still, jury nullification has been used in many U.S. cases, such as pre-Civil War cases that tried people for helping escaped slaves and Prohibition cases that tried people for violating the ban on alcohol.

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.

In Spirituals, and along the Underground Railroad, escaped slaves were advised to follow the North Star.

At the center of this floor plan is the «Abyss of Excessive Enjoyment and Trauma,» anchoring a dystopic heaven where «things just happen and people blow apart, «comfortable places are overrun with rats and escaped slaves» and «you can tell your therapist everything.»

John Outterbridge mixes collage, biography, and African American history, with allusions to slavery in rural shack, African emblems, and a poster warning escaped slaves.

In 1970, White traveled to Belize as part of his study of the history of slavery and of the «maroon republics» founded by escaped slaves throughout Latin America.

In 1970, he traveled to Belize as part of his study of the history of slavery and of the «maroon republics» founded by escaped slaves throughout Latin America.

In some cases these groups of escaped slaves fought open wars against colonists» forces, as is the case with one famous instance in Florida, when a group was granted freedom in an agreement that predates the Emancipation Proclamation.

The family heirlooms played a role in the story of emancipation by functioning as coded maps that guided escaped slaves to freedom.

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With its deep, wooded hollows, the Cockpit Country of Jamaica's Trelawny Parish provided a natural defensive stronghold for the Maroons — escaped slaves who successfully fought the British for their freedom.

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 North.

I'd never thought of slave catchers reaching outside of slave states to round up escaped slaves.

Elijah, the first free - born child in Buxton, a Canadian community of escaped slaves in 1860, transforms from a «fra - gile» 11 - year - old boy into a courageous hero.

Readers meet Victor, a free black man whose job is to return escaped slaves to their rightful owners.

Victor, a black bounty hunter who tracks down escaped slaves, is on the trail of an escapee known as Jackdaw, and his pursuit will take many dramatic twists and turns.

It seemed that he was trying to create a harmonious and «fear free» zone for escaped slaves to live their lives, learn skills and contribute to society.

In his novel Underground Airlines, Ben Winters models the secret network that helps facilitate safe travel for escaped slaves from the «Hard Four» on the 19th century Underground Railroad.

The basics: Written and directed by Gary Ross («The Hunger Games»), this fact - based Civil War drama tells the story of Newton Knight, a disillusioned Confederate Army deserter who, with the help of escaped slaves and like - minded Southern farmers, rises up against the Confederacy.

After being abandoned by his wife (Keri Russell) and having his farm confiscated by the Confederacy, he flees for his life, finding sanctuary in a swamp deep in the woods inhabited by a handful of escaped slaves.

With a makeshift band of escaped slaves and disgruntled farmers, he held several counties in Mississippi against Confederate forces and survived the war.

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.

Did this unique tongue evolve to shield escaped slaves?

The sites announced Friday include an early black community along the Hudson Valley that served as a refuge for freed and escaped slaves, a commercial district in Utica with roots stretching back nearly 200 years, and a Catskills retreat that belonged to a 19th century businessman who made his money in soda fountains.

The interactive Underground Railroad Hike invites visitors to take a guided walk on a route that escaped slaves used in Illinois in the mid-1800s.

A few minutes away, in what is now Bunche Elementary School, is a plaque commemorating the 1st Michigan Colored Infantry, which was composed of 845 black men, including escaped slaves.

Editor's Note: The Maroons were escaped slaves in Jamaica who hid in the infamous cockpit country of jungles and sinkholes.

By Captain Mayne Reid Editor's Note: The Maroons were escaped slaves in Jamaica who hid in the infamous cockpit country of jungles and sinkholes.

Pretty strong language, but no stronger than the metaphor Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation used, in an op - ed article in The Washington Times, to «describe a bill designed to prevent corporations from rechartering abroad for tax purposes: Mitchell described this legislation as the «Dred Scott tax bill,» referring to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that required free states to return escaped slaves.

At one time, in the eyes of the Law, escaped slaves living in the North could be arrested and dragged back to slavery in South.

Do you remember what Emerson said about that detestable Fugitive Slave Law which required all Americans to help return escaping slaves to their southern masters?

Even the apostle Paul instructs an escaped slave, Onesimus, to return to his master, they observed.

Through the eyes of a young escaped slave, the novel explores race, injustice and brutal reality of America's dark past.

An opium - addicted gay Colonel, an aging Chinese ex-pat, an escaped slave, and a teen prostitute with...

The film stars Jamie Foxx as Django, an escaped slave who goes to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from sadistic... Continue reading →

I found it fascinating how strong your ancestors» bonds were even during slavery, with an escaped slave being willing to risk his freedom to rescue relatives.

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).

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.

In addition to the hardships of soldiering, he lives with the fear of discovery, for he is an escaped slave passing for free.

In 1775 Boston, Octavian, an escaped slave, joins the Royal Ethiopian Regiment of the British army after he is promised freedom.

A wayward prince, his twin brother, a mystical woman of fire, and an escaped slave band together to free an outcast goddess -LSB-...]

You play as Monkey, a prisoner that has escaped a slave ship, and had the misfortune of stumbling across Trip, another prisoner.

Both characters manage to escape a slave ship by their own specialized means.

Not exact matches

Otherwise, you're suddenly more of a slave to your career than you ever were before — and isn't that exactly the trap you wanted to escape?

That judgment upon the Egyptians is a saving judgment because by means of it the slaves were enabled to escape into the desert.

According to history, white people along with Harriet Tubman and others, helped slaves escape through the underground railroad.

The nucleus of this event is the actual escape of a group of slaves from Egypt in the thirteenth century B.C..

To be sure, slaves might seek to escape or rebel.