Sentences with phrase «from slave rebellions»

In 1865 it was the starting point of the Morant Bay Rebellion, the only major peasant revolt (as distinguished from slave rebellions and worker uprisings), in Jamaican history.

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Starring Aja Naomi King as Nat's wife, Armie Hammer as his slave master, and Colman Domingo as his right - hand man in the rebellion, plus supporting turns from Jackie Earle Haley, Penelope Ann Miller, Aunjanue Ellis, Mark Boone Jr., Roger Guenveur Smith, and Gabrielle Union, «Birth» provides no clear villains, instead delivering nuanced portraits of classic arcs.

Aja Naomi King's movie ascendancy as the slave girl Cherry in Nate Parker's blazing battle cry, The Birth of a Nation (based on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831), is a complete boomerang from the role that made her television rep.. After an assortment of credits in film («Positive Polly» in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress and Rosa in the underseen comedy The Rewrite) and in prime - time series such as Emily Owens, M.D. and The Blacklist, King was whisked aboard the mother ship of Shondaland's How to Get Away with Murder, starring the inviolable Viola Davis.

And McMillian's performance - based videos often recast significant events — from Nat Turner's slave rebellion to Ronald Reagan's Neshoba County Fair speech — as playful, disconcerting parodies that upend essentialist readings of history.