Sentences with phrase «former black slaves»

«Amendment 14 addressed citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws — namely for former black slaves.

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Ulster County's own Sojourner Truth — former slave, abolitionist, preacher and advocate of women's rights — was the first black woman to go to court against a white man and win.

A former member of the Black Panthers and the National Black United Front, Mr. Barron has gained notoriety for calling Thomas Jefferson a «slave - holding pedophile,» for hosting Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe at City Hall, for praising Cuba's Fidel Castro and Libya's Muammar el - Quaddafi and — in overwhelmingly pro-Israel New York — for being not just pro-Palestinian but pro-Hamas.

An unusual beauty with delicate features, expressive black eyes, and a full, wide mouth, Tyson next hid her good looks beneath layers of old - age makeup to convincingly portray a 110 - year - old former slave who tells her extraordinary life story in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974).

Inspiring stories of brave men, women and children introduce us to Harry Washington, one of George Washington's slaves, who ran away from Mount Vernon and joined the British Army; to the first sit - in (a refusal to worship from the «black pews») at a Philadelphia church in 1786; and to Mound Bayou, Miss., an all - black town founded proudly by former slaves.

In the voice - over that introduces his character, Hap Jackson, patriarch of a black sharecropping family, laments that African - Americans are barred from land ownership through a combination of generational poverty and white plunder, drawing a direct connection between the racist oppression of former slaves and their lack of access to capital.

Former slave Bass Reeves, the first black U.S. marshal, performed many remarkable deeds as he staunchly defended territorial law in the American West.

A black farmer, bootmaker and former slave becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves, in this ambitious, luminously written novel that ranges seamlessly between the past and future and back again to the present.

* Black Britons (or Black Loyalists) was the term used to describe former North American slaves or free blacks who joined the British Army against the colonists in the American Revolutionary War.

It's 1863, and Frederick Douglass, the well - known writer, speaker, abolitionist, and former slave, is the only black man waiting in the crowded room outside Lincoln's office in hopes of meeting the president.

So his visionary farm — a place where freeborn blacks and former slaves all gather and debate their future — is also, for me, a symbol of dialogue and debate among Americans of color today (especially during this year's election) about the best way for them to share in the «American dream.»

The husband / wife McKissack team, using a setting in the early 1800s in Charleston, South Carolina, has created a scenario in which a young black girl named Charlotte questions her father Price Jeffries, a former slave and blacksmith, about various racial injustices they encounter.

Set in post-Civil War Chicago, it follows three strangers — a widowed white woman, a freeborn black woman from Tennessee and a former slave whose wife was sold away from him before the war — who move to the city for a chance to start over but are unable to completely shed their pasts.

Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor — William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County.

My debut picture book is about a former slave who received the first U.S. patent awarded to a black woman.

The projects all took place within walking distance of Weeksville, which encompasses three restored homes originally belonging to an independent black community founded in 1838 by former slave James Weeks.

Next month, the Obamas will consider borrowing four works by African - American artist William H. Johnson including his «Booker T. Washington Legend,» a colorful oil on plywood depiction of the former slave educating a group of black students, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.