Sentences with phrase «escaped slaves in»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

Indeed, one law in Exodus, intended to make the lot of slaves more tolerable, goes only so far as to declare the owner liable to punishment if, in beating a slave, he kills him outright, whereas if the wounded slave «continue a day or two» the owner escapes penalty, «for he is his money.

And it is multiracial to boot, taking place among the Mundo, a new «sprung tribe created when escaped black slaves commingled with native Indians in the Sierras.

The escaped or freed slaves settled in the islands hills, where the terrain made it easy for them to elude capture.

«The technique of jerking was originated by the Maroons, Jamaican slaves who escaped from the British during the invasion of 1655 and hid in the maze of jungles and limestone sinkholes known as the Cockpit Country.

The technique of jerking was originated by the Maroons, Jamaican slaves that escaped from the British during the invasion of 1655 and hid in the maze of jungles and limestone sinkholes known as the Cockpit Country.

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.

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 museum commemorating some of the local people and places that helped escaped African - American slaves find freedom in Canada formally opened its doors Friday.

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 specific epithet «quilombola» used for the species» name refers to the people who inhabited these communities — slaves who dared to escape during colonial times and find a refuge in the depths of the Atlantic Forest.

In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward and his family, escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia.

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.

In John Sayles» science - fiction comedy The Brother from Another Planet, the Brother (Joe Morton) arrives on Earth as an escaped alien slave, running from two white Men in Black (David Strathairn and John Sayles), who are also alienIn John Sayles» science - fiction comedy The Brother from Another Planet, the Brother (Joe Morton) arrives on Earth as an escaped alien slave, running from two white Men in Black (David Strathairn and John Sayles), who are also alienin Black (David Strathairn and John Sayles), who are also aliens.

Alfre Woodard has a knowing cameo as a planter's mistress who schools Solomon in the reality for genteel female slaves: submitting to lust is less onerous than backbreaking work in the fields (Patsey escapes neither).

Structured in six chapters with titles like «Wrath,» «Men Of God,» «The Holy Land,» and «Hell,» Valhalla Rising opens with Mikkelsen and the slave boy escaping their captors and forming a tenuous alliance with Christian warriors en route to Jerusalem.

He is ordered to be killed but manages to escape, ending up in the hands of slave trader Proximo (Oliver Reed), who pits him into the Roman Colosseum as a gladiator.

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

Katnis's District 12 doesn't look like an ennobled patch of poverty in the majesty of the wilderness this time, it's a rural slum caked in coal dust, and the districts are essentially open slave pens for people who will be worked to death without any hope of escape.

The story of Harriet Tubman, who helped free hundreds of slaves from the South after escaping from slavery herself in 1849.

The Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora, a young slave in antebellum Georgia, who attempts to escape to the north.

The two roles have similar elements; Han's in love with Qi» ra (Emilia Clarke) as he also schemes to escape — whereas here, he's an indentured teen slave.

Their desire for that is really what drives Django and in fact, many slaves did try to escape, continually, which is why there was an economy around slave hunters.

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.

In this beautifully illustrated, true story from the Underground Railroad, Henry «Box» Brown makes a daring escape and mails himself to freedom after his family is sold in the slave markeIn this beautifully illustrated, true story from the Underground Railroad, Henry «Box» Brown makes a daring escape and mails himself to freedom after his family is sold in the slave markein the slave market.

There is even a written record in George Washington's papers of a slave escaping from his plantation.

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.

Slaves who escaped the plantations came to be known as «Maroons» (the term for a runaway slave in the West Indies and Americas, from the Spanish word cimarrón, meaning wild).

Given the number in bondage — there were nearly 4,000,000 slaves counted by the U.S. Census in 1860 — only 100,000 escaping illustrates the extremely difficult process.

Not having the happy ending was a wise decision on the author's part, because it would have undercut his overall message, and it would have seemed contrived: While we know slaves did escape to safety in the 19th century, his novel is a commentary on the present, where there is no such «happy ending» of perfect safety and freedom, even for black people who achieve.

Curtis» gripping account of the first free child born in Canada's Buxton Settlement for runaway slaves uses a young boy's perspective to relate the horrors his parents escaped, the continuing danger, and the kindness of the people in the community.

After being sold in the largest slave auction in American history, Emma and Joe agonize over whether to escape or remain slaves in this fact - based novel told almost entirely in dialogue.

Thirteen - year old Nepalese Lakshmi has been sold as a sex slave by her stepfather, but she refuses to let horrific abuse smother her dreams of escape or quench her desire to find a better life away from the degradation and humiliation of her situation in India.

After spending four years visiting a dozen countries where slavery flourishes, Skinner tells the story, in gripping narrative style, of individuals who live in slavery, those who have escaped from bondage, those who own or traffic in slaves, and the mixed political motives of those who seek to combat the crime.

A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York

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.

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.

In the fall of 1809 Grace Wisher, a young slave girl, escapes the plantation to live her life in the port city of Baltimore, MarylanIn the fall of 1809 Grace Wisher, a young slave girl, escapes the plantation to live her life in the port city of Baltimore, Marylanin the port city of Baltimore, Maryland.

When Roric was born little did he know that his family would die violently as he watched and that his world would crumble only to later find himself chained into the life of a slave forced to survive in the world of the arena where every match meant death for someone, but he survived and one day he escaped.

Many Africans slaves or their descendants settled in Belize after escaping the brutal plantation conditions on nearby Caribbean islands.

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.

I can understand why, since Levi and Catherine Coffin were instrumental in helping over 2,000 runaway slaves, or freedom seekers as they were called, escape to Canada over a twenty - year period.

In the 1700s, St. Vincent served as a refuge for escaped African slaves who had been brought to the Caribbean by Europeans.

One particular platformer that stood out for me was Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, a game in which you start off as a slave in a meat factory before being forced to escape after overhearing the plan of the evil boss.