Sentences with phrase «house slave in»

A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York

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Bashar was beaten regularly, put to work as a house slave for her captor's family in Raqqa, and forced to work in an explosives warehouse, where she made suicide vests using a chemical paste infused with small metal components, or «pieces of iron,» she recalls.

and a slave does not abide in the house forever.

There will always be uncle Toms in the world or house slaves.

Funny, this article points out that prayer, according to Obama, is a part of american history, thus we are to assume that we should continue doing it becase we've done it in the past... We also used to own slaves, ride horses and use candles to light our houses.

To review: In their letters to the early church, the apostles Peter and Paul include what you might call a Christian remix of the traditional Greco - Roman household codes, which detailed the responsibilities of a male head - of - house, his wives, slaves, and adult children (see Ephesians 5, Colossians 3, and 1 Peter 3).

In the 1800s we would have called these people the house slaves.

A family in that day might very well include multiple wives, with the male head - of - house free to force slaves to satisfy him sexually as well.

For all are ordered together to one end, but it is as in a house, where the freemen are least at liberty to act at random, but all things or most things are already ordained for them, while the slaves and the animals do little for the common good, and for the most part live at random... (1075a16 - 23)

For philistinism thinks it is in control of possibility, it thinks that when it has decoyed this prodigious elasticity into the field of probability or into the mad - house it holds it a prisoner; it carries possibility around like a prisoner in the cage of the probable, shows it off, imagines itself to be the master, does not take note that precisely thereby it has taken itself captive to be the slave of spiritlessness and to be the most pitiful of all things.

As an example, he made an appeal to slave holders, but, as far as we know, did not picket in front of Philemon's house.

Hail to him who can make those movements, he performs the marvelous, and I shall never grow tired of admiring him, whether he be Abraham or a slave in Abraham's house whether he be a professor of philosophy or a servant - girl, I look only at the movements.

Standing in the place of the slave owner's wife, the mammy became the «premier house servant who, though given considerable authority by her owners and admired for her expertise in domestic matters, remained captive.

Joh 8:35 «The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever.

Even in the Ten Commandments, as recorded in Exodus 20:17, woman was listed along with the house, slaves, ox, and ass, belonging to one's neighbor, which one should not covet.

It is an interesting juxtaposition that while one of the Ten Commandments enjoins the honoring of parents, another speaks of a neighbor's wife in comparable terms with his house, slaves, ox, or ass as objects not to be coveted!

So the slaves of the master of the house came and said to him, «Master, did you not sow fine seed in your field?

With a mighty arm he had delivered them from the house of bondage, hence they were never to forget the state of the foreigner and of the slaves among them, for they had been slaves in the land of Egypt.

(Hint: building a few houses in New Orleans five years after Katrina does not make up for using slave labour.

That is the story of this country, the story that has brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.

Addressing the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the First Lady also spoke movingly about waking up every morning «in a house that was built by slaves».

As time passes on, this friend proposes you the following option, become a soldier of ISIS, have a wife from their captured sexual slaves, have a steady income, live in the designated houses either for very cheap prices or free.

Taylor also had antislavery credentials: In February 1819, he had proposed similar slave restrictions on Arkansas territory in the House, but failed 89 - 8In February 1819, he had proposed similar slave restrictions on Arkansas territory in the House, but failed 89 - 8in the House, but failed 89 - 87.

If I decorate my house perfectly with starfish, strands of twinkling lights and mercury glass balls, but do not show love to my family, I am just another decorator.If I slave away in the kitchen,... [Read more...]

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It's lorded over by Stephen (an almost unrecognisable Samuel L. Jackson), an ageing house slave who might look like Uncle Ben off of the rice box, but who has a heart as black as coal, in particular when it comes to strangers in his midst.

There are encounters with a comical predecessor of the KKK (led by a terrifically over the top Don Johnson), a small town sheriff who is not what he seems and, of course, the very proper southern gentleman / Mandingo fighting aficionado and plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio)-- and his right hand plantation man, house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson, stealing every scene he's in in a scary, mean, dangerously funny role).

Lincoln's Cabinet is dubious about his chances of getting the 13th Amendment through the House, but the president — who has already freed the slaves as a wartime measure in the Emancipation Proclamation — orders them to get it passed before the end of the bloody four - year war.

A president given to endless talk with a preference for making his points via anecdotes (such as one about why a portrait of George Washington is on the wall of a particular toilet), Lincoln, a Republican, favored the adoption of the amendment to abolish slaves as did many in his own party, but to get the required two - thirds vote of the House of Representatives thereby sending it to the states for ratification, he had to bring in some Democrats.

What it does have is Samuel L. Jackson in a pinpoint performance as an unctuous old house slave who's more layered than he appears, and when Django, Schultz, and Candie are sitting around the parlor trying to outwit each other, the film achieves that QT hypnotic mood.

Jackson, buried under makeup and adopting an elderly stoop and geriatric traits, is outstanding in what must have been a challenging role as the «house nigger» - aside from a black slave owner, the most despised of roles for a black man in this era - and shows that he can be as ruthless as his master.

But when he receives an invitation from King Leopold II of Belgium to return to the Congo as a trade emissary for the House of Commons, American statesman George Washington Williams (Samuel L. Jackson) convinces him to go in order to investigate rumors that Leopold is using slave labor to colonize the country.

^ 12 Years a Slave — John Ridley ^ Before Midnight — Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke In the House — Juan Mayorga, François Ozon Short Term 12 — Destin Cretton The Wind Rises — Hayao Miyazaki

Following his upcoming role in DJANFO UNCHAINED as freed slave - turned - bounty hunter, Jamie Foxx is set to play the US president in WHITE HOUSE DOWN...

Smith was originally rumored to be considering playing the character of Django, a slave who embarks with Schultz on a mission to free Django's wife, who is working as a slave in the house of sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Some of the other actors in the film are Aja Naomi King, who plays Nat's wife, Aunjanue Ellis, who plays his mother, and Roger Guenveur Smith, who plays the slave who works in the house and doesn't want to see things change.

CAR: I play the role of Naevia, a former slave in the house of Batiatus.

When Jessica arrives for a visit 13 years later, she confronts her mother's slave - like attitude and everyone in the house is affected by her unexpected behavior.

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Meanwhile, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong» o follows up 12 Years a Slave with a role as a chirpy air hostess (boasting a dubious cockney accent), while House of Cards» Corey Stoll pops up as a buddy cop who could have been drafted in from the 1990s.

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It was Jackson's role as Stephen, Candie's house slave, that turned out to be the real antagonist in the movie.

As such, the hierarchy between slaves — those in the fields and those in the house — makes infinitely more sense, each having a specific experience wholly their own.

It's when the film reaches Candie's plantation that it drops off considerably, largely due to less dramatic tension as well as an unconvincing performance by Samuel L. Jackson as Candie's trusted house slave (while the other actors at least make some attempt at period verisimilitude, Jackson sounds as contempo as he did in Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction).

The producers have had luck in their casting: They signed Dockery before she blew up on «Downton Abbey,» Corey Stoll before he did the same on «House of Cards» and Lupita Nyong» o before she earned an Oscar nomination for «12 Years a Slave.»

Samuel L Jackson has long been a Tarantino favorite, and his delivery as the diabolical Uncle Tom house slave who has some secrets of his own, will bring the house down when he first sees Django and, in a much darker way, when his suspicions are confirmed.

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Missing, though, is a woman present in the novel and in the Eastwood movie — a slave named Hallie (Mae Mercer in the Eastwood film) who works in the house and is owned by Martha.

The illegitimate child of a black slave and a Royal Navy captain (Matthew Goode), Dido Belle Lindsay was sent to live with her great - uncle, the Lord of Mansfield and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, in the safe and protected environment of Kenwood House in Hampstead, spared from an underprivileged and poverty - stricken upbringing, and raised as an aristocrat along with the other girl in the painting, her cousin Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon).