Sentences with phrase «many plantation owners»

What it's about: Based on the acclaimed play, «South Pacific» is about a nurse who falls in love with an older French plantation owner with mixed - race children she has trouble accepting.

I'm sure many plantation owners were quite generous to charities, etc..

Those measures ensured that black people would always be working for those who could legally conduct commerce: white plantation owners.

But then again 80 % of this country believes in mythical slave holders, and at least 60 % believe this celestial plantation owner created them.

If you believe this form of slavery is a moral practice, then do you extend this favorable morality position to the directly analogous antebellum southern plantation owners who owned Africans as personal property?

I can't speak to the other eight but Tyson Foods and WalMart are no more Christian than slave - owning plantation owners were in the antebellum South.

I can't support the majority when they are terribley wrong...» In defense of christians... you are referring to the southern cult (Baptists) that later apologized for its part in supporting slavery... and yes, they did it to keep gietting MONEY from the wealthy plantation owners who had started donating to the church...

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

[8] Lawyer, representative to the General Assembly from Baton Rouge, and eventual Judge Daniel Avery, who was also joint owner of the Petit Anse Island sugar plantation, and Deer Range sugar plantation owner Maunsel White, became colleagues.

The likelihood that Maunsel White and Edmund McIlhenny were more than mere acquaintances is certainly enhanced by the fact that prominent New Orleans banker Edmund McIlhenny married plantation owner Daniel Averys daughter, Mary Eliza Avery, on June 30, 1859 in St. James Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge.

After a long narrative about salary negotiations in which the book had made me look like some sort of southern plantation owner dealing with one of his slaves, he wrote: «There is no law that says you have to like your boss...»

Most plantation owners knew that you could get much more productivity and loyalty from a person you treated well.

Its economy was destroyed during the Civil War, and took further blows during the Reconstruction era at the hand of «carpetbaggers» from the North, particularly involving Northern banks providing financing to plantation owners who would pledge their land as collateral and often lost that land when they failed to repay the loans as agreed.

States rights was the pretext that plantation owners used to motivate others to die in their stead.

Six months later (as we enter the middle third of the movie), after the duo have become bounty hunting partners, the pair finally set off in search of their main goal — rescuing Djagno's wife Broomhilda, a slaved played by Kerry Washington who has been sold to a nasty Mandingo baron and plantation owner Calvin Candie (played with delicious relish by Leonardo DiCaprio).

That arrangement sets the pieces in motion for a riotous buddy comedy in which the duo capture plenty of bounty before hurtling toward their final target, wealthy plantation owner Calvin Candy (Leonardo DiCaprio, over the top even by these standards), who keeps Broomhilda locked up in a dismal existence at the appropriately - titled Candyland.

This leads to a partnership, which leads to an attempt to free Django's beloved wife (Kerry Washington) from a brutal plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Leonardo DiCaprio plays evil plantation owner Calvin Candie, and Tarantino looks to be up to his usual trick of mixing violence and comedy.

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).

Jamie Foxx as the slave who comes into his own, Kerry Washington as his lost wife Broomhilda, who works for DiCaprio's plantation owner and Mandingo purveyor Calvin Candie, and German bounty hunter Christoph Waltz are all excellent.

It's a pretty safe bet to assume that only Quentin Tarantino could convince a studio to release a film set in the slave - owning South that follows a freed slave who, under the guidance of a German bounty hunter, becomes a deadly assassin hellbent on rescuing his wife from an evil plantation owner.

Synopsis: With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Halle Berry stars as the title character, the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner.

There's a funny, farcical scene with an early version of the Klan (the joke is they can't see out of their hoods), but Django doesn't spike to full Tarantino fever until it gets inside the big house of Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), a wily plantation owner.

Along the way, a strong bond is formed between Shultz and Django which leads them on an adventure to rescue Django's wife from the dastardly plantation owner Calvin Candie.

When a wealthy plantation owner becomes obsessed with a beautiful but unattainable woman, he strikes a devil's bargain with a sinister voodoo master!

With the help of his mentor, a slave - turned - bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

On the opposite side, Michael Fassbender as one of the vile plantation owners is as evil as they come, and he completely embodies his performance, acting almost reptilian.

Don Johnson will play a fellow plantation owner called Spencer Gordon Bennet.

Stars Jamie Foxx and director Quentin Tarantino praise the actor's indelible performance as plantation owner Calvin Candie in this latest look at the hit film.

There's a marvelous episode with a plantation owner who is played by Don Johnson and looks like Colonel Sanders, an episode that includes a lynch - mob scene that plays like a «Mr. Show» sketch.

The two end up pursuing common enemies and striving to rescue Django's wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), from her cruel new master, plantation owner Calvin Candie (an unusually animated Leonardo Di Caprio).

Though we've yet to see Django Unchained, all the trailers and marketing material point to Leonardo DiCaprio giving one hell of a performance as plantation owner Calvin Candie.

Django (Jamie Foxx) goes on to team up with Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German bounty hunter interested in the large reward on Big John, to free his wife from the clutches of villainous plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Or as a vicious plantation owner in «12 Years a Slave».

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

When Schultz learns that Django's wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), is also enslaved, he agrees to help find her and buy her freedom, which takes them down to Mississippi, where they face off against a ruthless plantation owner named Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) that specializes in Mandingo fighting.

The veteran plans to write a book about his father, a plantation owner, but soon gets caught up in a series of mysterious murders in the town, and the secrets kept by the townsfolk.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Many sequences in Steve McQueen's new movie, «12 Years a Slave» — the true story of a free black man kidnapped in 1841 and sold to Southern plantation owners — were emotionally exhausting to film.

«Django Unchained» follows Jamie Foxx as Django, a freed American slave who teams with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to save his wife from Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), an evil plantation owner.

The film stars Mel Gibson as a widowed South Carolina plantation owner who's reluctantly drawn into the early skirmishes of the American Revolution.

The German - born, Ireland - raised actor plays cruel plantation owner Epps in the period drama «12 Years a Slave,» in which Brad Pitt, as a...

Effectively shot by McQueen's longtime cinematographer Sean Bobbitt on several real Louisiana plantations, «12 Years» explores a number of odd corners of the slavery situation, like the slave Mistress Shaw (Alfre Woodard) who is married to the plantation owner and serves an elaborate tea on Sunday mornings.

In point of fact, he seems to be based on the militia leader Francis Marion, a South Carolina plantation owner and veteran of the Indian wars who was known as «the Swamp Fox» for his effective use of the local terrain in springing guerrilla assaults on British troops.

A white plantation owner will not leave her property after the political situation turns quite hostile and child soldiers start walking around with AK - 47s.

Using Northup's book of his actual accounts, John Ridley's (Red Tails) script plainly depicts the hypocrisy of the plantation owners spouting scripture one moment and then viciously beating or raping their slaves the next.

In 1841, he is kidnapped, shipped to New Orleans, and sold to the plantation owner Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch).

Additionally, Ridley shatters the image of the gentle Southern plantation owner's wife revealing them to be equally hate - filled and spiteful.

Solomon is purchased by plantation owner, Mr. Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch, Star Trek Into Darkness), a complex character who seems appalled by the harsher aspects of slavery, but not so much that he'll stop buying slaves.

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).