Sentences with phrase «for runaway slave»

The crude, generic figures in this suite of prints were originally rendered as illustrations for runaway slave posters.

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).

But another part of me worries that a religious culture that asks its followers to silence their conscience is just the kind of religious culture that produces $ 200 rewards for runaway slaves.

The pursuit of wild hogs has terminated with the rewards for runaway slaves; and in this age of railways and steam navigation, the flitches of American bacon in the provision shops have driven out of the market the jerked hog of the Maroon.

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.

It is believed that the pattern functioned as breathing holes for runaway slaves hiding under the floor, awaiting safe transport north.

It is believed that the drilled pattern functioned as breathing holes for runaway slaves who, hiding under the floor, awaited safe transport north,» explains artist Nari Ward.

Shortly after this, White became interested in wanted posters for runaway slaves in the United States, and with a fellowship from Tamarind in 1970, White worked extensively on his Wanted Poster series.

The legacy of slavery is addressed in Glenn Ligon's lithographs formatted to look like 19th - century wanted posters for runaway slaves, with Mr. Ligon in the role of the fugitive.

Not exact matches

Onesimus, a runaway slave with whom Paul had become acquainted at Rome, is here commended to his master Philemon with the hope expressed «for love's sake» that Philemon will receive him «no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved... both in the flesh and in the Lord.»

A number of modern urban newspapers, such as the Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times — Dispatch, and the Hartford Courant ran advertisements before the Civil War for the sale of slaves or the recapture of runaways; all four of the major North American railroads own rail lines that were built with slave labor; the founder of Lehman Bros. bought slaves as workers for the firm when it was founded in pre — Civil War Alabama.

Similarly, while the mainstream Enlightenment (which privileged order, good behaviour and obedience) frequently sought harsh remedies for beggars, runaway slaves and other undesirables, Catholic religious houses could provide beacons of mercy and refuge, and moralists such as St Alphonsus Ligori sought to develop a theology which did real justice to the complexities of human life.

In 1987, he starred as anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom alongside Kevin Kline, and though the film itself alienated some critics (Pauline Kael called it «dumbfounding»), Washington's powerful performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.Two years later, Washington netted another Best Supporting Actor nod — and won the award — for his turn as an embittered yet courageous runaway slave in the Civil War drama Glory.

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Freedom (R for violence) Antebellum Era drama, set in Virginia in 1856, about a runaway slave (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) who makes a break for freedom in Canada with his family via a secret network known as the Underground Railroad.

When Northrup is «broken» in a holding pen and battered until he will deny his true identity and admit he's a runaway slave, the process seems to take no longer than necessary for us to believe it.

One can't help but wonder if some of the emotional and thematic impact that's lacking here might have been better engendered if, say, the film had more room for Rachel (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), a slave on a local plantation who later becomes Newton's second wife, or Moses (Mahershala Ali), a runaway who fights for voting rights for freedmen when the war is finished.

After the first Maroon War (1730 - 1739), in which the Maroons were led by Queen Nanny, a treaty was agreed that gave the Maroons control over large areas of land in return for agreeing to return runaway slaves and to help put down revolts or outside invasions.

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Reading it, I experienced Cora's longing, terror, uncertainty, anger... her feelings not just as a runaway slave but as a black person in America today, still on that journey of struggle for freedom and the respect and security that comes with it, which I, as a white person, take for granted.

When Stephen brings Charlotte into Mammoth Cave for privacy as he teaches her to read, Charlotte finds a safe place to hide runaway slaves from the slave catchers and their dogs.

In fact, roughly a dozen of its occupants over the course of its history have owned slaves, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson (the latter of whom once placed an ad for a runaway that offered $ 10 extra for «every hundred lashes any person will give him»).

In addition to the runaway Maroon communities, slaves were notorious for their violent uprisings on plantations.

The Great Dismal Swamp, near the city's southwest corner, carries a legacy of runaway slaves hiding for freedom.