Sentences with phrase «most slave owners»
One similarity most slave owners had was that they were rich.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
But for the most part, the author admits the evils embedded in Greek civilization, among which one can easily name the constricted life of most women, the demagoguery of so many politicians, and worst of all the degradation of the slave's life (he quotes the medical writer Galen who once saw an owner poke his slave's eye out with a reed pen).
Ironic how people get worked up when the Los Angeles Clipper's owner doesn't want his girlfriend to associate with black people, but don't have a problem discriminating against anyone who is not Christian, or don't care that the founding fathers were some of the most racist people on Earth and actually owned slaves.
Maybe you prefer to teach «Christian values» such as murder and torture a la the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Holocaust, being most all the slave owners in the USA, the Salem witch trials, etc, etc. you are an ugly bigot.
These are obvious words of man, most likely owners of slaves themselves, unwilling to give them up, so they said, god said It was ok, to justify and carry it out.
Most business owners never get clear about this number and end up becoming slaves to their business, only to realize they aren't getting paid enough to maintain the life they desire.
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.
Yet these moments are more than balanced by scenes of genuine originality, horror and truth, as when we see images of naked slaves on display in a genteel parlor, or, most unforgettably, become witnesses to the nighttime entertainments of the mad slave owner (Fassbender), who insists that his slaves dance for him.
The slave owners constituted for the most part a feudal, landowning aristocracy that dominated both the economic and the political life of the South, and indeed to a considerable extent of the nation.
In Codex, his most recently completed project, Biggers continues to probe these themes through another stylistic departure: painting on historical quilts, many of which were gifts to the artist from descendants of slave owners.
As part of their labor series, their documentation has covered the cruel conditions of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a former slave - breeding plantation named for the African nation from which «the most profitable» slaves, according to slave owners, were kidnapped.