Sentences with phrase «from plantation owners»

Everybody shows up weekends, from plantation owners to tourists, who can still pump gas out front.

«Django Unchained «Synopsis: A freed slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) teams up with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to track down his wife (Kerry Washington) and liberate her from her plantation owners led by the sadistic Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

I had what I thought was a great chapter on a runaway slave taken from a plantation owner's diary.

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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...

[8] Lawyer, representative to the General Assembly from Baton Rouge, and eventual Judge Daniel Avery, who was also joint owner of the Petit Anse Island sugar plantation, and Deer Range sugar plantation owner Maunsel White, became colleagues.

Most plantation owners knew that you could get much more productivity and loyalty from a person you treated well.

Its economy was destroyed during the Civil War, and took further blows during the Reconstruction era at the hand of «carpetbaggers» from the North, particularly involving Northern banks providing financing to plantation owners who would pledge their land as collateral and often lost that land when they failed to repay the loans as agreed.

This leads to a partnership, which leads to an attempt to free Django's beloved wife (Kerry Washington) from a brutal plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

It's a pretty safe bet to assume that only Quentin Tarantino could convince a studio to release a film set in the slave - owning South that follows a freed slave who, under the guidance of a German bounty hunter, becomes a deadly assassin hellbent on rescuing his wife from an evil plantation owner.

Synopsis: With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

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.

Along the way, a strong bond is formed between Shultz and Django which leads them on an adventure to rescue Django's wife from the dastardly plantation owner Calvin Candie.

With the help of his mentor, a slave - turned - bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

The two end up pursuing common enemies and striving to rescue Django's wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), from her cruel new master, plantation owner Calvin Candie (an unusually animated Leonardo Di Caprio).

Django (Jamie Foxx) goes on to team up with Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German bounty hunter interested in the large reward on Big John, to free his wife from the clutches of villainous plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

«Django Unchained» follows Jamie Foxx as Django, a freed American slave who teams with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to save his wife from Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), an evil plantation owner.

Very violent yet hilariously funny, superb acting from all corners - Waltz and Jackson steal the show while Leo shows up in an awesome turn as a plantation owner and superb visuals... and then there are the Tarantino trademarks - sharp dialogue, humor mixed easily with fear and so much more...

McQueen is faithful to his actors — here we get to experience yet another unforgettable performance from Michael Fassbender, this time as the morally and psychologically unstable, demonic slaver and plantation owner Edwin Epps.

Key supporting work comes from David Oyelowo as the couple's Black Panther son, Vanessa Redgrave as the plantation owner of the butler's youth, Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan and — most amusingly of all — Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan.

From Jamie Foxx to Christoph Waltz to Leonardo DiCaprio to Kerry Washington to Samuel L. Jackson — even to Don Johnson as a plantation owner named Big Daddy — the cast raises the film to great heights, even when Tarantino gives in to too many juvenile urges, as he does upon occasion (it's like he just can't help himself — and who's going to tell him no?).

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).

Having become the Vince and Jules of pre-Civil War badlands, Schultz and Django set out to recover Big D's wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from the plantation where they meet their deadly doubles: sadistic owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his feverishly loyal man - servant Stephen (Samuel L Jackson).

The film stars Jamie Foxx as Django, an escaped slave who goes to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) by teaming up with bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz).

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.

In the book Uncle Tom is a middle - aged slave sold downriver again and again until finally he ends up the property of Simon Legree, a monstrous plantation owner who forbids him from reading the Bible and commands him to thrash other slaves.

He even served as a medic in the Confederate army during the Civil War, but was disheartened to learn how the sons of large plantation owners had been exempted from the military draft.

In the mid-nineteenth century, plantation owners yielded from this soil a single crop — cotton — and cotton made it slave country.

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.

The Cobblers Cove main house, now known as the Great House, was built in 1943 by plantation owner Joss Haynes and has undergone extensive renovations and expansion works over the years to complete its transformation from a family beach house to a luxury boutique resort hotel.

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.