Sentences with phrase «house slave on»

Nightjohn (1996), adapted by Bill Cain from a novel for young adults by Gary Paulsen, is the story of Sarny (Allison Jones), a young house slave on a cotton plantation, who is taught to read by Nightjohn (Carl Lumbly), a slave who escaped to the north but returned to captivity to teach others what he knew.

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There were many fine candidates on the right who were African - American, who were called traitors, Uncle Toms, house slaves, by those on the left, referring to these people as individuals who apparently did not remember that they were black.

The Potter's House pastor and writer T.D. Jakes has created a powerful new video that he's posted on Instagram showcasing the unimaginable horror of the modern - day slave trade.

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.

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.

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly was critical of Michelle Obama's speech on Monday, defending the use of slaves to build the White House.

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

Ours was spent slaving away on the house again!

It's Samuel L. Jackson who really shines, because his layered performance as the head house slave comments on an entire history of actors playing Uncle Tom.

It is the attempt to penetrate The Void that brought us Alex Haley's Roots, that draws thousands of African Americans across the ocean to visit West Africa every year, that left me crumpled on the rocks outside the Door of No Return at Gorée Island's slave house as I stared out over a horizon that my ancestors might have traversed once and forever.

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.

Leonardo DiCaprio is also set to star as villain Calvin Candie, while Samuel L. Jackson is signed on to play Candie's head house slave Stephen.

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).

Produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B (Oscar winners for 12 Years a Slave), distributed by A24 (last season's Best Actress winner Brie Larson — Room and Visual Effects winner Ex Machina) and starring Naomie Harris (Skyfall), André Holland (The Knick), Janelle Monaé (Hidden Figures) and Emmy - nominee Mahershala Ali (House of Cards) Moonlight combines elements of Boyhood, Beasts of the Southern Wild and the documentary On the Downlow to give us a truly new vision of cinema.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

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.»

Forest Whitaker portrays Cecil Gaines, the man who worked his way up from being a child slave on a Georgia plantation to the highest level of butler within The White House... a gig that spanned 34 years and eight Presidents.

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I would be in the grand Grimké house on East Bay Street in Charleston, or in the work yard where the Grimké slaves carried on behind hidden walls, or I might be on a ship sailing north, or in the attic room of an abolitionist home in Philadelphia.

An indentured servant sent to work on a plantation finds a family among the slaves in the kitchen house.

So, in my opinion when you take on a mortgage you shouldn't become a slave to your house.

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.

Two slave cabins, located a short distance from the rear of the house, give a glimpse into the laborers» way of life on the plantation.

This small museum is located in the oldest house on the cobblestoned streets of the area that became home to Muslims and freed slaves after slavery was abolished in the Cape, known as Bo - Kaap (above the Cape).

Besides beauty parlors and barbershops, Marshall takes on subjects like housing developments in Chicago, the city where he has lived for over 20 years; the murder of Black Panther Fred Hampton; and historical photos of slaves and prisoners.

This becomes breathtakingly clear to anyone who tours the Joyner - Giuffrida house in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood, where the 150 - odd works on display run the gamut from Whitten's The Eighth Furrow, a squeegee painting executed more than a decade before Gerhard Richter made the technique famous, to Kara Walker's epic Terrible Vacation, a reimagining in gouache of J.M.W. Turner's Slave Ship, to the young Brooklyn - based artist Jayson Musson's Anticyclonic, which is made from the scraps of innumerable Coogi sweaters.

Additionally, the International Center of Photography is paying tribute to those incarcerated during World War II, the Center for Architecture will focus on the story of affordable housing, and the Queens Museum is reexamining our history with slaves and guns.

The holes were drilled into the floorboards of the house of worship so that slaves escaping the South on the Underground Railroad could breathe while hiding underneath.

The firm was instructed by the joint CEOs of the newly launched business, House Productions — Tessa Ross, former head of Film4 and executive producer on films such as Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave and Carol; and Juliette Howell, who was previously at Working Title.

The entry also addresses several traditionally taboo subjects, such as the influence of LSD on the drafting of the Constitution and the role of funk - slaves in painting the White House black.

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If you can keep up with things during the week you're not a slave to the house on Saturdays.