Sentences with phrase «former slave state»

The stability of the former slave state was tenuous at best while the gold - masked Sons of the Harpy murdered citizens and Unsullied alike, a situation that could worsen with Queen Daenerys skipping town (and escaping assassination) by taking flight on one of her dragons.

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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 bar makes signature drinks with roots in New Orleans culture, like the Gin Fiz, Hurricane, and Sazerac, which may have been the United States» first cocktail, allegedly created by a former slave turned apothecary.

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

There is long - running legal action in the United States brought on behalf of former child slaves who worked on cocoa plantations.

Free State of Jones (R for brutal battle scenes and disturbing images) Civil War saga about a white Mississippian (Matthew McConaughey) who leads fellow farmers and former slaves in an uprising against the Confederacy.

Last year we read The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, a former slave turned abolitionist and juxtaposed its reading with a viewing of Ava Duvernay's prolific documentary «13th,» which discusses modern - day slavery in the guise of mass incarceration and its direct correlation to a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.

During this period the southern states returned to the US fold and, due to the Emancipation Proclamation in early 1863 and the ratification of the 13th amendment in December 1865, slavery was ended and the former slaves became freedmen, and some African Americans in some parts of the South obtained the right to vote and to hold public office.

One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer.

I am quite aware, sir, that history says the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the United States of America in 1865, and that ensuing amendments extended to former slaves the precious rights and protections our nation guarantees to all its citizens regardless of color.

Did You Know: The reconstructed Edwin Epps House, which was built in part by former slave and noted author Solomon Northup, sits on the Alexandria campus of Louisiana State University.

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.

As the American south exploded with violence and the civil rights movement got underway, he painted a series of works devoted to former slave - holding states like Alabama and Mississippi.

In this May 16, 2015 photo, former slave fisherman Myint Naing, center, hugs his niece Kyi Wai Hnin, right, and nephew Kyaw Min Tun following his return to his village in Mon State, Myanmar.

Abraham Galloway, a former fugitive slave who returned to North Carolina and helped draft the state's 1868 constitution, called the judiciary chosen by the Confederate state legislature a «bastard born of sin and secession» and helped move the state to judicial elections.

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.»