Sentences with phrase «escaped slaves who»

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.

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

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).

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Work that issues from devotion is no longer a slave's burden, and play is no longer the pseudo liberty of one who seeks escape from himself and his condition.

God went on to say that he had seen the suffering of the Israelites, Abraham's descendants, who at the time of Joseph had come to Egypt to escape a widespread famine and had become slaves to the Egyptians and their rulers, known as Pharaohs.

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.

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

«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 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 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 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).

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.

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.

Nightjohn (1996), adapted by Bill Cain from a novel for young adults by Gary Paulsen, is the story of Sarny (Allison Jones), a young house slave on a cotton plantation, who is taught to read by Nightjohn (Carl Lumbly), a slave who escaped to the north but returned to captivity to teach others what he knew.

Salma Hayek is Everly, a sex slave who attempts to escape the flat where she's been kept prisoner for four years and slaughters a whole load of Japanese mafia bad guys on the way.

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.

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.

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.

Sandwiched among the dramatic vignettes of the story, Greenwood pauses to pepper the book with historical sidebars about the «secret code» language used by those who helped shuttle slaves north to safety; a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman, known as «Moses» to those along the route; a brief history of storytelling among southern slaves; a scientific explanation for the «swamp ghosts» many slaves encountered along their escape routes; an inside look at some of the methods used to hide slaves from capture; and much, much more.

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).

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.

Cora muses on the brands on other escaped or freed slaves who lived at Valentines, grateful that even though she bore the marks of Terrance Randall's wrath, she had never been burned like so many of her friends.

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.

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.

When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another.

Born a slave to an alien corporation, Susan Singh escaped with the help of a politician who would shape the young girl into a deadly force of human vengeance.

For those who are still salaried employees, «slaving and saving» for a seemingly rosy future retirement, the prospect of escaping the daily corporate grind may seem quite alluring.

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.

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

Nanny et Quao, Jamaîque, for example, is a reference to «Queen Nanny,» an 18th - century woman from modern - day Ghana who escaped Jamaican plantations with her brother, Quao, and is now credited with having helped free hundreds of former slaves.

In one of his most celebrated works, Wilson covered himself in stamps and went to a post-office asking to be placed in the mail — a performative homage to Henry Brown, the 19th century slave who escaped to freedom by shipping himself in a box.