Sentences with phrase «of plantation life»

He spent his days sitting on the city sidewalks, where he drew scenes from both his memories of plantation life and the street life around him.

The featured contemporary artists are Kara Walker, who makes panoramic silhouettes of plantation life and African American history; Canadian artist Kristi Malakoff, who cuts paper to make life - size sculptures depicting a children's Maypole dance; MacArthur - prize - winner Camille Utterback, who will present an interactive digital work that reacts to visitors» shadows and movements; and Kumi Yamashita, who «sculpts» light and shadow with objects to create mixed - media profiles of people who are not there.

The artist generates the subject matter of his art from the material substances with which he works, an approach made most memorable perhaps in Zucker's «cotton ball paintings» of the early 1970s with their narrative images of plantation life in the American south.

The Alapaha Blue Blood Bulldog came out of Georgia and the history of plantation life in the deep South.

I don't agree with Townsend because I don't think he fully understood his mother's deep - seated hatred of plantation life.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

The film's immersive depiction of the misery of plantation life as well as hangings, near - lynchings, whippings, a rape and numerous other scenes of brutal punishment proved too much for a handful of academy members Sunday night, though the mid-screening walkouts were minimal.

Of course, it's a coincidence that Django Unchained arrives in the same season as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the second of two Spielberg films about slavery (after 1997's Amistad) that never expose audiences to the harsh realities of plantation life?

Not exact matches

What it's about: A mixture of live action and animation, «Song of the South» encompasses several stories about living on a plantation during the Reconstruction Era.

Strickland recalls a BBC report of a young boy who had just been rescued from life as a slave chocolate plantation.

This is not the South of the dewy - eyed fantasy writers of plantations and nostalgic honor; this is the inverse, with hardscrabble living and ridiculously rash vows.

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.

Like you, my views have changed in recent years - from the North York Moors, to Lake Geneva (across from Evian) and now to the tropical island of St Lucia (where the Hotel Chocolat plantation is located:) Wishing you all the best with whatever you decide to do in life - you have certainly made a most wonderful start.

This could reduce the amount of fungicide spraying which, in turn, would improve the quality of life of the people working in the plantations and those who live in the immediate surroundings.

Other long - tailed tits and bushtits are temperate birds, but the pygmy bushtit lives only in the western part of the Indonesian island of Java, in tropical open forests and plantations above 1000 metres.

Noting that, «responsible palm oil production can play an important role in improving the lives of the local communities,» Wilmar says it is working with the government to ensure its plantations don't overlap with the national park.

Boone Hall Plantation in South Carolina is one of America's oldest plantations, legendary for its avenue of live oaks and hanging spanish moss.

Cay had learned of Allen through his own friendship with Christmas Moultrie, a freed slave who became Allen's business partner, but lived on a historic plantation the Cay family used to own.

The always - brilliant Isabelle Huppert is the matriarch of a white family about to be kicked off their African plantation, trying desperately to hold onto the crop of coffee beans they've grown as their lives hang in danger.

Based on a true story, the plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

The plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon, McQueen adapted the memoirs of the main character along with John Ridley to chronicle Solomon's harrowing twelve years, where he went from being a freeman living in New York, to a plantation slave in New Orleans between 1841 and 1853.

There's just as much Days of Heaven as there is Roots; McQueen's incredible direction (assisted by the beautiful colors and compositions of Sean Bobbitt) provides a warm, amber color to plantation life that sharply contrasts the gritty trappings of slavery.

Huppert plays a French plantation owner in West Africa determined to harvest the coffee crop while life as she knows it is going up in the flames of a conflict in which the contending armies (government, rebels) are nearly indistinguishable.

The lessons span from Slavery and life on a plantation to the Murder of Emmett Till.

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.

Although Tubman spent much of her life in New York, she was born on a plantation in the state of Maryland where she spent much of her life until she escaped to freedom.

Told from the perspective of impetuous and inquisitive 10 - year - old orphan Sugar, Turpin's energetic performance depicts life on a Louisiana plantation in 1870, where sharecroppers work as slaves and newly acquired Chinese workers represent unwelcome competition.

There were now perhaps a hundred or so Korean families living in Buckle Lane and adjacent Akepo Lane — most of them having fled the plantations for the canneries, even as others abandoned the canneries to become tailors, launderers, shoemakers, or grocers.

Seventy - five years later, Granada, now known as Gran Gran, is still living on the plantation and must revive the buried memories of her past in order to heal a young girl abandoned to her care.

I can see that the narrative style generates a great deal of suspense and mystery, as the reader tries to understand why Placidia is so reluctant to give details of her life on the Hockaday plantation.

Read more >> A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Algonquin, $ 22.95, 304 pages In her humorous and poignant memoir of a wedding and an earthquake in the Dominican Republic, novelist Julia Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) attempts to answer this question as she tells the tale of a young worker on her coffee plantation, Piti, and his efforts to make a life by traveling from his home in Haiti to work in the neighboring country.

We learn in the opening scene that cotton plantation matriarch Mary Toliver has unexpectedly changed her will at the end of her life.

If you want a real - life heroine, try The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, a novel based on the life of a woman named Carrie McGavock; her Tennessee plantation home was used as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War.

(It makes for a better story if Cora upon escaping the plantation at first thinks she has found freedom, but then «wakes up» to realize it is an illusion, and moves on, into something even worse...) All of these different experiences of racism, so well described by Edie, were not specific to any one state, but rather, they are all forms of racism that have existed in the South, and some of them in the North too, at different time periods — and all have their counterparts in our lives today.

This is a feel - good story about the determination of a humble Japanese - American schoolteacher, Soichi Sakamoto, who barely knew how to swim himself but taught the sport to underprivileged children living on the sugar plantations of Hawaii during the 1930s and 1940s.

In the fall of 1809 Grace Wisher, a young slave girl, escapes the plantation to live her life in the port city of Baltimore, Maryland.

European dogs weren't cut out for the special challenges of life on the grasslands, or veld, the Afrikaans word for «field,» where the Europeans established their farms and plantations.

The adjoining section contains an exhibit of slave life on a Louisiana plantation.

Students hear captivating songs of the slaves, played in the background, as they view pictures and artifacts that depict the journey of the slaves from Africa, their lives here on the plantation, and their dreams of freedom.

This event is fun for the whole family with plenty of food vendors, historical exhibits on plantation life, a farmer's market and plenty of children's activities.

Even though you will see Laura's family heirlooms and their Creole furnishings, this portion of the tour spotlights the charmed but tragic lives of the plantation's inhabitants.

Two slave cabins, located a short distance from the rear of the house, give a glimpse into the laborers» way of life on the plantation.

With the modern architectural lines and extensive use of timber and plantation shutters, this provided the perfect combination of a resort style living in the sanctuary of nature.

Individual villas set in the coconut plantation with stunning view, Private balcony and outdoor furniture 40 sq. metres of living space, private balcony King - sized bed LCD TV with satellite channels & DVD player with a complimentary...

Many sitting areas have been provided around the property to invite guests to sit and experience the year - round grandeur of the ancient oak alley, the fragrance of spring and summer blooms and the sights and sounds of bird life, wildlife and plantation life of long ago.

The theme of the trunks is 19th century plantation life and it is full of learning materials, artifacts, and activities.

A classic example of refined tropical elegance, Las Cerezas features a spacious living and dining area decorated in plantation style with dark - wood furniture and high ceilings.

There are plenty of coconut plantations to ride by along with a few villages where life goes on oblivious to the developing tourist scene that surrounds them.

Immerse yourselves in local life on visits to a coffee plantation, a rural village, and the lively markets of San José.