Sentences with phrase «of house slave»

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

With a mighty arm he had delivered them from the house of bondage, hence they were never to forget the state of the foreigner and of the slaves among them, for they had been slaves in the land of Egypt.

We are slaves to their schedules and it feels impossible to get out of the house.

That is the story of this country, the story that has brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.

As time passes on, this friend proposes you the following option, become a soldier of ISIS, have a wife from their captured sexual slaves, have a steady income, live in the designated houses either for very cheap prices or free.

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly was critical of Michelle Obama's speech on Monday, defending the use of slaves to build the White House.

She also blasted Dr. Ben Carson, Trump's secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, for referring to slaves as immigrants and extended an invitation to him to check out New York City's hHousing and Urban Development, for referring to slaves as immigrants and extended an invitation to him to check out New York City's housinghousing.

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It would be her version of transforming a field slave to a house nigga.

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.

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.

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).

Lincoln's Cabinet is dubious about his chances of getting the 13th Amendment through the House, but the president — who has already freed the slaves as a wartime measure in the Emancipation Proclamation — orders them to get it passed before the end of the bloody four - year war.

It is the attempt to penetrate The Void that brought us Alex Haley's Roots, that draws thousands of African Americans across the ocean to visit West Africa every year, that left me crumpled on the rocks outside the Door of No Return at Gorée Island's slave house as I stared out over a horizon that my ancestors might have traversed once and forever.

A president given to endless talk with a preference for making his points via anecdotes (such as one about why a portrait of George Washington is on the wall of a particular toilet), Lincoln, a Republican, favored the adoption of the amendment to abolish slaves as did many in his own party, but to get the required two - thirds vote of the House of Representatives thereby sending it to the states for ratification, he had to bring in some Democrats.

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.

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.

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.

But when he receives an invitation from King Leopold II of Belgium to return to the Congo as a trade emissary for the House of Commons, American statesman George Washington Williams (Samuel L. Jackson) convinces him to go in order to investigate rumors that Leopold is using slave labor to colonize the country.

The sounds of nature as the slaves walk or as Solomon approaches his master's house is noticed.

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).

Produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B (Oscar winners for 12 Years a Slave), distributed by A24 (last season's Best Actress winner Brie Larson — Room and Visual Effects winner Ex Machina) and starring Naomie Harris (Skyfall), André Holland (The Knick), Janelle Monaé (Hidden Figures) and Emmy - nominee Mahershala Ali (House of Cards) Moonlight combines elements of Boyhood, Beasts of the Southern Wild and the documentary On the Downlow to give us a truly new vision of cinema.

Some of the other actors in the film are Aja Naomi King, who plays Nat's wife, Aunjanue Ellis, who plays his mother, and Roger Guenveur Smith, who plays the slave who works in the house and doesn't want to see things change.

CAR: I play the role of Naevia, a former slave in the house of Batiatus.

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.

During a White House dinner, Lincoln takes Stevens aside and asks him to tone down his talk of redistributing Confederate wealth to freed slaves.

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While 12 Years a Slave unsurprisingly pretty much cleaned house (earning 5 wins of its 7 nominations), it was nice to see some recognition for other, smaller films like Mud and Short Term 12.

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

Meanwhile, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong» o follows up 12 Years a Slave with a role as a chirpy air hostess (boasting a dubious cockney accent), while House of Cards» Corey Stoll pops up as a buddy cop who could have been drafted in from the 1990s.

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