Sentences with phrase «house slaves»

While naturally dark - skinned slave women were left to work the fields, their children would receive preferential treatment, being brought into plantation homes to serve as house slaves.

And all the house slaves conspire to keep the mistress happy by making Grenada available to the mistress.

The house slaves found the swamp slaves almost as repugnant as the whites found the blacks.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The two are welcomed with some traditional Southern hospitality, but soon, Candie's ornery house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) discovers their plot with nothing more than an observational eye and a hunch.

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.

As Wilhelm (Danny Glover) the house slave explains, when emancipation came, Manderlay's inhabitants weren't sure the free world was ready for them, or that they were ready for it.

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).

But the true revelation of Candyland is Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), a 76 - year - old house slave who has served generations of Candies, and who has become institutionalized by time, his codependent relationship with his master, and the small margin of power he wields with perverse pleasure over the other slaves.

By the end we've spent a lot of time at Candyland, and we know these are some bad dudes (including Samuel L. Jackson as a Candie - loyal house slave), but all the violence ultimately feels sloppy, arbitrary, inexact.

At no time does Jackson attempt to soften the edges of Stephen, Candie's lifelong chief house slave.

Tarantino film regular Samuel L. Jackson adds some humor and class to the proceedings as Candie's house slave.

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.

When Schultz locates her as property of Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), he and Django offer up a ruse to get Candie's attention and make their way into the depths of Candyland, the plantation where Cavil holds sway over numerous slaves, none more visible than Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), an ancient house slave afforded the opportunity to speak freely.

Under the supervision of house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie dishes out whippings, brandings, beatings, dog attacks and castration.

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.

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.

Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's trusted house slave.

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

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).

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.

Mbatha - Raw plays Rachel, a «house slave» when we meet her, who is almost immediately introduced as Knight's lover in that flash - forward I mentioned.

Stalin's plan for society was enforced by a huge secret police force and included the mass execution of political opponents, the forced starvation of millions of peasants, and a vast network of prison camps (gulags) erected to house slave labor.

When Minty, a house slave, doesn't come quickly enough when called, her mean - tempered owner, Mrs. Brodas, burns the girl's rag doll and sends her to work in the fields.

However, Mitchell's estate authorized a sequel written by Donald McCaig in 2007 (Rhett Butler's People), and he has been commissioned to write a prequel as well, this time from the perspective of Scarlett's house slave, Mammy.

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

Dean Wesley Smith refers to Michael Stackpole «s piece, Degrees of Slavery (from November 1) about his use of «house slave» as a term for a traditionally published author.

Not exact matches

But what a lot of people don't consider is that we have watched our own mothers and fathers work their entire lives, slaving away for the American dream, only to obtain the house with the picket fence and still be unhappy.

and a slave does not abide in the house forever.

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).

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)

You are the lord / master of your house and family... But that does not make them your slaves but make of you their protector... Any way the verse means that the way you treat your wife the way she would become to be... May God bless us and our families.

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.

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.

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.

Similarly, while the mainstream Enlightenment (which privileged order, good behaviour and obedience) frequently sought harsh remedies for beggars, runaway slaves and other undesirables, Catholic religious houses could provide beacons of mercy and refuge, and moralists such as St Alphonsus Ligori sought to develop a theology which did real justice to the complexities of human life.

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

Andrews's evaluation of one such case where a Nair was fined, made to build a «substantial prayer house» for his «slaves» and to write a conciliatory letter to the missionary agreeing not to «molest» the slaves anymore is revealing.

«Here you go Jimmy, I know you always liked Bertha who nursed you as a baby, you take her with you along with her children to clean your new house... but make sure if you beat her that the stick is no larger than your thumb and if you kill her you will be punished, so be careful with your slaves.»

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?