Sentences with phrase «for plantation owners»

That the artist's great - grandmother Susie Shannon was born into slavery and produced quilts for plantation owners lends Ringgold's work a deeper, personal register.

The inquiry immediately began to mirror conversations that slavers in various institutions would have, where they strived to weaken the minds of a slaves while maintaining the physical characteristics that were seen as a commodity for plantation owners.

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Those measures ensured that black people would always be working for those who could legally conduct commerce: white plantation owners.

I can't support the majority when they are terribley wrong...» In defense of christians... you are referring to the southern cult (Baptists) that later apologized for its part in supporting slavery... and yes, they did it to keep gietting MONEY from the wealthy plantation owners who had started donating to the church...

No just as the Slave owners of our first Civil War, who needed African slaves on their Plantations, to make them economically viable for the Southern Aristocracy to maintain their affluence, the Anti Gov forces of today seek a totally deregulated American economy.

That cargo included 1000 breadfruit plants destined for the Jamaican sugar plantations, whose owners were clamouring for a cheap and reliable source of food for their slaves.

That arrangement sets the pieces in motion for a riotous buddy comedy in which the duo capture plenty of bounty before hurtling toward their final target, wealthy plantation owner Calvin Candy (Leonardo DiCaprio, over the top even by these standards), who keeps Broomhilda locked up in a dismal existence at the appropriately - titled Candyland.

Jamie Foxx as the slave who comes into his own, Kerry Washington as his lost wife Broomhilda, who works for DiCaprio's plantation owner and Mandingo purveyor Calvin Candie, and German bounty hunter Christoph Waltz are all excellent.

He ends up on a below - the - border plantation, where he rescues the pretty owner (Dorothy Burgess) from the skullduggery of bandit leader Santono (Noah Beery Sr.) For an actor who was considered a has - been, Monte Blue gives a persuasively virile performance, though he's a bit thick in the middle to be thoroughly convincing as a «young» hero.

The former owner of a sugar plantation, he's been imprisoned by Fidel Castro for 20 years while she's emigrated to the United States.

In point of fact, he seems to be based on the militia leader Francis Marion, a South Carolina plantation owner and veteran of the Indian wars who was known as «the Swamp Fox» for his effective use of the local terrain in springing guerrilla assaults on British troops.

A pimped out Don Johnson as Big Daddy Bennett was almost too much for me to take the movie seriously, but thankfully the plantation owner and slave trader isn't over used and is instead given the perfect amount of screen time.

In 1776 South Carolina, a pacifist plantation owner joins the War for Independence after a British officer murders his 15 - year - old son.

Thus, we see how the sexualization and rape of sisters by plantation owners and their being forced to mate with strangers for breeding purposes rather than for love when added to the inability of emasculated brothers to protect their females have contributed to a distance and distrust still in evidence.

Michael Fassbender earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as a drunken, twisted, mean - spirited plantation owner, but I found Paul Dano's interpretation of a sadistic overseer who senses Northrup's superiority to be just as praiseworthy.

In Val Lewton's moody little fantastic horror flick, mousy nurse Betsy goes to the Caribbean to care for afflicted Jessica, the wife of an important plantation owner.

Schultz, a German who abhors slavery, needs Django's help in tracking down some ornery varmints; for his part, Django requires Schultz's aid in rescuing his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from the sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Northup's new owner, Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender) is drunk, debauched, and depraved; the outwardly courteous mistress of the plantation (Sarah Paulson) is, if anything, worse still, consumed with jealousy for a slave, Patsey (newcomer Lupita Nyong» o), with whom her husband is obsessed.

Interestingly, both of the main plantation owners shown utilize scriptures in the Bible as their justification for their actions, though they only key in on a handful out of context and ignore all of the many, many others that run counter to their twisted philosophy.

The Weinstein Company's «Django Unchained,» which is set for a Christmas Day release, also had four nominations, including one for Outstanding Motion Picture and an Outstanding Actor nomination for Foxx, who plays a slave - turned - bounty hunter attempting to rescue his wife from a Mississippi plantation owner.

Schultz agrees to both grant Django his legal freedom and to help him rescue his beloved wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from the clutches of a brutal Mississippi plantation owner named Calvin J. Candie (Leonardo Di Caprio) in exchange for his assistance in completing an assortment of bounty missions over the winter.

Played with wide - eyed determination and desperation by an excellent Chiwetel Ejiofor, Solomon is a free man who is tricked by a couple of young shysters into losing his free papers and becoming a slave, where he remains for more than a decade under the mastery of two different plantation owners — the benevolent William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) and emasculated, tyrannical Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender).

This film takes us back to the great depression era on the west coast where hordes of homeless roamed the lands looking for jobs and were taken advantage of by wealthy plantation owners.

It would be important as a way for slaves to know «the lay of the land,» too, whether adapting to a different plantation or owner, or to different locations on the journey to the North and freedom.

Through the differences between James and Terence, or Caesar's experience of Virginia and Randall Island, or Cora's journey, it shows the way its conventions varied from state to state, or from master to master, and therefore the ultimate cruelty of traumatic disorientation, never knowing what to expect, as slaves were sold from one plantation to another, since there were no restraints on just how viciously an owner might punish or even torture a slave for how slight a transgression.What might be acceptable in one place isn't in another.

It was built for horse racing, which was a favorite sport of many members of Hawaiian royalty during the Gay 90 ′ s era, as well as plantation owners and laborers.

The architect of Villa Tjitrap, the internationally recognized, Mr. Ross Franklin, was asked to design a villa in Bali that was a modern mixture of the old plantation house Tjitrap, where the the grandmother of the owners grew up in Java and the Black and White House in Singapore where they lived for many years...

It is named for the original owners of the plantation, the Colleton family, who also helped shape Barbados.

The piece illustrates a meeting between Princess Augusta and plantation owner Eliza Lucas Pinckney in 1753, for which the latter wore a dress made from silk produced on her land by slaves.

As part of their labor series, their documentation has covered the cruel conditions of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a former slave - breeding plantation named for the African nation from which «the most profitable» slaves, according to slave owners, were kidnapped.

In past paintings, including a monumental mural commissioned for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's atrium, Marshall has called attention to Jefferson and Washington as slave owners, and their respective estates — Monticello and Mount Vernon — as plantations operated via slave labor.

Using art objects commissioned by plantation owners for their mansions — among them the first landscape images painted in the region — the show also explores the culture of tobacco, its workers, its marketing, and its associations with modernity.

The owner of Indonesia's largest conglomerate has been accused of participating in the illegal deforestation of Borneo's Ketungau peat swamp to make way for oil palm plantations.

The immediate negative effects of palm oil plantations are clear: loss of critical land and water resources for forest - dependent communities; increased conflicts between customary land owners and palm oil companies; and mass deforestation resulting in habitat loss for some of the world's most engendered species.

Through this programme, forest and plantation owners are financially and legally acknowledged for the environmental services their forests provide to the community, both nationally and globally.

One advantage was that if a labourer was evicted by a plantation owner or had to go elsewhere for work, the home could easily be dismantled and moved.

The cemetary there is a labor of love by the owners of plantation during the civil war for thr confederate soldiers who lost their lives in the Battle of Franklin.