Sentences with phrase «of escaped slaves»

Night Coming Tenderly, Black Dawoud Bey at St. John's Episcopal Church For this FRONT commission, the artist has created a series of brooding photographs evoking the imagined experience of escaped slaves moving northward through the city of Cleveland and the surrounding area to Lake Erie and boats bound for Canada.

In some cases these groups of escaped slaves fought open wars against colonists» forces, as is the case with one famous instance in Florida, when a group was granted freedom in an agreement that predates the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Elijah, the first free - born child in Buxton, a Canadian community of escaped slaves in 1860, transforms from a «fra - gile» 11 - year - old boy into a courageous hero.

The basics: Written and directed by Gary Ross («The Hunger Games»), this fact - based Civil War drama tells the story of Newton Knight, a disillusioned Confederate Army deserter who, with the help of escaped slaves and like - minded Southern farmers, rises up against the Confederacy.

After being abandoned by his wife (Keri Russell) and having his farm confiscated by the Confederacy, he flees for his life, finding sanctuary in a swamp deep in the woods inhabited by a handful of escaped slaves.

With a makeshift band of escaped slaves and disgruntled farmers, he held several counties in Mississippi against Confederate forces and survived the war.

Not exact matches

Otherwise, you're suddenly more of a slave to your career than you ever were before — and isn't that exactly the trap you wanted to escape?

That judgment upon the Egyptians is a saving judgment because by means of it the slaves were enabled to escape into the desert.

At one time, in the eyes of the Law, escaped slaves living in the North could be arrested and dragged back to slavery in South.

Pretty strong language, but no stronger than the metaphor Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation used, in an op - ed article in The Washington Times, to «describe a bill designed to prevent corporations from rechartering abroad for tax purposes: Mitchell described this legislation as the «Dred Scott tax bill,» referring to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that required free states to return escaped slaves.

The nucleus of this event is the actual escape of a group of slaves from Egypt in the thirteenth century B.C..

Before Sinai, before Exodus Nineteen, the Hebrew people were an escaping band of slaves; but after Sinai they were a holy nation, a people of destiny, a nation of priests ordained to serve the world.

Work that issues from devotion is no longer a slave's burden, and play is no longer the pseudo liberty of one who seeks escape from himself and his condition.

Through the eyes of a young escaped slave, the novel explores race, injustice and brutal reality of America's dark past.

Yet these descendants of those slaves never escaped the mental and emotional slavery of the slave - owner's religion.

Indeed, one law in Exodus, intended to make the lot of slaves more tolerable, goes only so far as to declare the owner liable to punishment if, in beating a slave, he kills him outright, whereas if the wounded slave «continue a day or two» the owner escapes penalty, «for he is his money.

«There is no evidence to support the mass exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, although some now believe that a small group did escape from Egypt; however, they were not Israelites but, rather, Canaanite slaves.

God went on to say that he had seen the suffering of the Israelites, Abraham's descendants, who at the time of Joseph had come to Egypt to escape a widespread famine and had become slaves to the Egyptians and their rulers, known as Pharaohs.

By Captain Mayne Reid Editor's Note: The Maroons were escaped slaves in Jamaica who hid in the infamous cockpit country of jungles and sinkholes.

Editor's Note: The Maroons were escaped slaves in Jamaica who hid in the infamous cockpit country of jungles and sinkholes.

«The technique of jerking was originated by the Maroons, Jamaican slaves who escaped from the British during the invasion of 1655 and hid in the maze of jungles and limestone sinkholes known as the Cockpit Country.

The technique of jerking was originated by the Maroons, Jamaican slaves that escaped from the British during the invasion of 1655 and hid in the maze of jungles and limestone sinkholes known as the Cockpit Country.

A few minutes away, in what is now Bunche Elementary School, is a plaque commemorating the 1st Michigan Colored Infantry, which was composed of 845 black men, including escaped slaves.

The stability of the former slave state was tenuous at best while the gold - masked Sons of the Harpy murdered citizens and Unsullied alike, a situation that could worsen with Queen Daenerys skipping town (and escaping assassination) by taking flight on one of her dragons.

A museum commemorating some of the local people and places that helped escaped African - American slaves find freedom in Canada formally opened its doors Friday.

The specific epithet «quilombola» used for the species» name refers to the people who inhabited these communities — slaves who dared to escape during colonial times and find a refuge in the depths of the Atlantic Forest.

The priest is Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke), and he tends to a small, barely - attended church that remains open solely because of its historical import; located in upstate New York, the church was once a stop on the Underground Railroad for Canada - bound escaped slaves.

Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius (Victor Mature), but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions.

Michael Ealy and Isaiah Washington also came out to show their support for the forthcoming series about a group of slaves planning their escape from a Georgia plantation.

Structured in six chapters with titles like «Wrath,» «Men Of God,» «The Holy Land,» and «Hell,» Valhalla Rising opens with Mikkelsen and the slave boy escaping their captors and forming a tenuous alliance with Christian warriors en route to Jerusalem.

The 37 - year - old musician serves as the executive producer for the forthcoming series about a group of slaves planning their escape from a Georgia plantation.

He is ordered to be killed but manages to escape, ending up in the hands of slave trader Proximo (Oliver Reed), who pits him into the Roman Colosseum as a gladiator.

Katnis's District 12 doesn't look like an ennobled patch of poverty in the majesty of the wilderness this time, it's a rural slum caked in coal dust, and the districts are essentially open slave pens for people who will be worked to death without any hope of escape.

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.

Salma Hayek is Everly, a sex slave who attempts to escape the flat where she's been kept prisoner for four years and slaughters a whole load of Japanese mafia bad guys on the way.

The story of Harriet Tubman, who helped free hundreds of slaves from the South after escaping from slavery herself in 1849.

The Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora, a young slave in antebellum Georgia, who attempts to escape to the north.

When Wark proclaims that he's «always had trouble drawing nigger faces,» and so paints white men's faces on the bodies of black slaves, the poignancy of that movement, independent of its inherent poignancy, identifies Junebug as something like an allegory for the ways that we deny the things we can't escape.

Exodus: Gods and Kings, 2014 Directed by Ridley Scott Starring Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn, Maria Valverde, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley SYNOPSIS: The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

SYNOPSIS: The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly -LSB-...]

There is the story of Caliban (Djimon Hounsou) the slave wanting his escape and his exploring adventures with Trinculo (Russell Brand) and Stephano (Alfred Molina).

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First, this caveat: I've still not seen three films said to be strong contenders, so it's too early to list these here: «Les Miserables,» directed by Tom Hooper, who made «The King's Speech;» Kathryn Bigelow's «Zero Dark Thirty,» about the killing of Bin Laden, and Quentin Tarantino's «Django Unchained,» with Jamie Foxx as an escaped slave and Leonardo DiCaprio as a plantation owner.

But as the stories of Eliza's life as a slave on a southern cotton plantation and her daring escape from her slaveholders come to light, Johanna's respect, then love, builds for her peer.

Sandwiched among the dramatic vignettes of the story, Greenwood pauses to pepper the book with historical sidebars about the «secret code» language used by those who helped shuttle slaves north to safety; a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman, known as «Moses» to those along the route; a brief history of storytelling among southern slaves; a scientific explanation for the «swamp ghosts» many slaves encountered along their escape routes; an inside look at some of the methods used to hide slaves from capture; and much, much more.

There is even a written record in George Washington's papers of a slave escaping from his plantation.

During the changeover of power, large bands of slaves escaped.

Hamilton's retelling of an unforgettable slave escape fantasy gets its own beautiful picture book here.

Of course, most slaves escaped from places closer to the free states.