Sentences with phrase «life of slavery»

The death of the calves and goats symbolized the death of the Israelite people to their former life of slavery in Egypt.

Rebellious girl thrust into life of slavery and lots of sex.

The agricultural laborers were forced to lead a life of slavery and most of these laborers were dalits.

Beloved functions not as a supernatural but as a frightening natural presence, in her double significance as both the child killed by her mother to spare her a life of slavery and the haunting memory of all blacks who suffered and died under slavery.

So at the age of 62, he entered literacy training, and a year later he could read — freed, as he put it, from a life of slavery.

Historically, Passover is a commemoration of the exodus of the Jewish people from a life of slavery in Egypt.

The film is based on the true life account of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man in New York who was deceived and sold into a life of slavery from 1841 to 1853.

Judah takes the blame, and under threat of punishment himself, Messala condemns his adoptive mother (Ayelet Zurer) and sister (Sofia Black - D'Elia) to death, while sentencing Judah to a life of slavery within the Roman navy.

Two white men pretend to offer him a job in Washington DC and end up drugging Solomon, covering his traceability with the new name of Platt and sold to a life of slavery in Louisiana, with no one knowing his whereabouts.

Tubman — whose cradle name was Araminta, or Minty for short — is an intelligent, determined child who longs to escape the life of slavery into which she was born.

Three children band together to escape a life of slavery on a cacao farm in the modern - day Ivory Coast.

He receives the loan — along with a life of slavery for himself and his family.