Sentences with phrase «for escaped slaves»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

However, by shipping sex slaves across borders traffickers can often gain higher profits — they can meet demands for the» «exotic,» for example — and also limit the possibility that slaves will escape.

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

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.

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.

Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius (Victor Mature), but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions.

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).

Michael Ealy and Isaiah Washington also came out to show their support for the forthcoming series about a group of slaves planning their escape from a Georgia plantation.

The 37 - year - old musician serves as the executive producer for the forthcoming series about a group of slaves planning their escape from a Georgia plantation.

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.

When Wark proclaims that he's «always had trouble drawing nigger faces,» and so paints white men's faces on the bodies of black slaves, the poignancy of that movement, independent of its inherent poignancy, identifies Junebug as something like an allegory for the ways that we deny the things we can't escape.

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.

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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.

But as the stories of Eliza's life as a slave on a southern cotton plantation and her daring escape from her slaveholders come to light, Johanna's respect, then love, builds for her peer.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 alluriFor 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 allurifor a seemingly rosy future retirement, the prospect of escaping the daily corporate grind may seem quite alluring.

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.

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.

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.

Given their military backgrounds, organizing a successful rebellion and escape was well within their aptitude, and became a persistent problem for American slave owners.

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 CanaFor 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 Canafor Canada.

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.