Sentences with phrase «former slave owners»
The ghosts of the Civil War long hovered over the Derby where in the early years former slave owners and Confederates not only dominated the crowd but the politics of Louisville, itself.
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
«One day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
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Trump grouped former presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who fought to create the United States, together as «slave owners,» with southern leaders Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson.
«The Birth of a Nation» Lowdown: Nate Parker's directs and stars in this true story about a former slave that sparks a rebellion against white slave owners in Virginia in 1831.
Others among the supporting cast are used more effectively — Paul Giamatti and Paul Dano as respectively — a callous slaver and plantation foreman, and Alfre Woodward, striking in her few onscreen minutes, as a former slave, now married to a plantation owner.
Plot: Django a former slave sets out with his companion / tutor / bounty hunter to rescue his wife from an twisted Mississippi land owner.
At the time, I knew several things about Forrest: How the former slave trader and plantation owner rose to the rank of general during the Civil War.
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.
These finds can range from the disturbing, such as a photocopy of a fraudulent 1893 broadside put out by something called the United States Ex-Slave Owners Registration Bureau, «Promising Compensation to Former Owners of Slaves,» to the hilarious 1912 stop - action film by Wladislaw Starewicz, a Polish photographer and entomologist, «The Cameraman's Revenge.»