Sentences with phrase «of runaway slaves»

The Great Dismal Swamp, near the city's southwest corner, carries a legacy of runaway slaves hiding for freedom.

As the viewer moved from gallery to gallery, they were presented with a series of paintings and sculptures that aggressively challenge the very idea of portraiture, from Marsden Hartley's One Portrait of One Woman (the woman being Gertrude Stein, whose work was referenced multiple times in the show) to Glenn Ligon's moving and disturbing Runaway series from 1993 that juxtaposes images of runaway slaves with descriptions of Ligon written by his friends and colleagues.

Glenn Ligon's Runaway series from 1993 is a conceptual self - portrait consisting of contemporary descriptions of the artist juxtaposed with images garnered from advertisements of runaway slaves.

His journey takes him deep into the jungle, from the hideouts of runaway slaves to penal colonies, outlandish forts, remote Amerindian villages, a «Little Paris» and a space port.

It's back on his farm where he meets and befriends Rachel (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), a slave woman who has been secretly learning to read and who will introduce him to an underground society of runaway slaves and a handful of other disenchanted southerners.

Were a person to have violated a court order directing the return of a runaway slave when Dred Scott was the law, would a genuinely held belief that a slave was a human person and not an article of property be a matter the Court could not consider in deciding whether that person was guilty of a criminal contempt charge?

The book of Philemon is a letter from Paul that exhorts the slave owner to accept the return of his runaway slave as an equal... a brother.

Delayed in his journey because of a runaway slave, the pilgrim runs into Diogenes who then engages him in a lengthy discussion that focuses on the relationship between knowledge, use, and purpose.

Delayed in his journey because of a runaway slave, the pilgrim runs into Diogenes who then engages him in a lengthy discussion that focuses on the....

He was caught by a group of runaway slave patrolmen without a pass.

NONFICTION Erica Armstrong Dunbar: Never Caught: The Washingtons» Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge Frances FitzGerald: The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America James Forman Jr.: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Masha Gessen: The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia * David Grann: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Naomi Klein: No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need Nancy MacLean: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America Richard Rothstein: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Kevin Young: Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News * Timothy B. Tyson: The Blood of Emmett Till

The acclaimed historical writer's first book to be set in America chronicles the journey of a runaway slave in the 1850s.

THE JOURNEY OF LITTLE CHARLIE by Christopher Paul Curtis (January) The Newbery Medal and two - time Honor winner's latest involves the pursuit of a runaway slave.

The article, titled «Recollections of a Runaway Slave», was published in an abolitionist newspaper based in Maine, the Advocate of Freedom.

A lecture and reading based on her book, Never Caught: The Washingtons» Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.

Not exact matches

A number of modern urban newspapers, such as the Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times — Dispatch, and the Hartford Courant ran advertisements before the Civil War for the sale of slaves or the recapture of runaways; all four of the major North American railroads own rail lines that were built with slave labor; the founder of Lehman Bros. bought slaves as workers for the firm when it was founded in pre — Civil War Alabama.

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.

A significant number of Pulaya converts initially drawn to Christianity was «runaway» slaves.

It is significant to note that the first baptism from among the Pulayas of Central Travancore and from among the «runaway» slaves in Mundakayam were the mantravadis.38 In places like Mepra, Punnapra and Vembala near Alleppey where the conversion movement was particularly strong, CMS missionaries acknowledged the leadership of the Pulaya priests.39

As a result of CMS missionary interest in «runaway» slaves, and the CMS missionaries» continued pressure on the State government, Pulayas were protected from further violence.

But another part of me worries that a religious culture that asks its followers to silence their conscience is just the kind of religious culture that produces $ 200 rewards for runaway slaves.

Paul writes to Philemon because a runaway slave of his called Onesimus has been converted by Paul in prison.

A runaway slave of Philemon had come to Rome, been converted and now Paul sends him back with this delightfully precious personal note, asking that Philemon receive him not as a slave but as a brother in Christ, and forgive him.

The pursuit of wild hogs has terminated with the rewards for runaway slaves; and in this age of railways and steam navigation, the flitches of American bacon in the provision shops have driven out of the market the jerked hog of the Maroon.

Mahershala Ali — ««The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),» «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Anthony Anderson — «The Departed,» «Hustle & Flow» Adam Beach — «The Departed,» «Hustle & Flow» Kate Beckinsale --- «Love & Friendship,» «The Aviator» Chadwick Boseman --- «Captain America: Civil War,» «Get on Up» John Boyega — «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» «Attack the Block» Betty Buckley --- «Wyatt Earp,» «Carrie» Rose Byrne — «X-Men: First Class,» «Bridesmaids» Julie Carmen — «The Milagro Beanfield War,» «Gloria» Enrique Castillo — «Déjà Vu,» «Bound by Honor» Morris Chestnut — «G.I. Jane,» «Boyz N the Hood» Cliff Curtis — «Live Free or Die Hard,» «Training Day» Idris Elba — «Beasts of No Nation,» «Pacific Rim America Ferrera — «Cesar Chavez,» «End of Watch» Vivica A. Fox — «Kill Bill,» «Independence Day» Andrew Garfield — «99 Homes,» «The Amazing Spider - Man» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha,» «To Rome with Love» Jesse D. Goins — «The Ugly Truth,» «Patriot Games» Bruce Greenwood — «Flight,» «Star Trek» Carla Gugino — «Watchmen,» «Night at the Museum» Luis Guzmán — «Punch - Drunk Love,» «Carlito's Way» Dennis Haysbert — «Dear White People,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Tom Hiddleston — «Crimson Peak,» «Marvel's The Avengers» James Hong — «Safe,» «Mulan» Oscar Isaac — «Ex Machina,» «A Most Violent Year» O'Shea «Ice Cube» Jackson * — «Ride Along,» «Friday» Dakota Johnson — «Black Mass,» «Fifty Shades of Grey» Cherry Jones — «Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,» «Signs» Michael B. Jordan — «Creed,» «Fruitvale Station» Daniel Dae Kim — «The Divergent Series: Insurgent,» «Crash» Regina King — «Ray,» «Jerry Maguire Brie Larson — «Room,» «Trainwreck» Byung - Hun Lee — «Terminator Genisys,» «G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra» Nia Long — «Keanu,» «Boyz N the Hood» Sal Lopez — «The Astronaut Farmer,» «Full Metal Jacket» Ignacio López Tarso — «Under the Volcano,» «Nazarin» Patti LuPone — «Parker,» «Driving Miss Daisy» Peter Mackenzie — «Trumbo,» «42» Rachel McAdams — «Spotlight,» «Midnight in Paris» Eva Mendes — «The Place beyond the Pines,» «Hitch» Tatsuya Nakadai — «Ran,» «Kagemusha» Adepero Oduye — «The Big Short,» «12 Years a Slave» Marisa Paredes — «The Skin I Live In,» «All about My Mother» Nate Parker — «Beyond the Lights,» «Red Tails» Harold Perrineau — «Zero Dark Thirty,» «28 Weeks Later» Jorge Perugorría — «Che,» «Strawberry and Chocolate» Silvia Pinal — «Vintage Model,» «The Exterminating Angel» Freida Pinto — «Immortals,» «Slumdog Millionaire» Michelle Rodriguez — «Avatar,» «Girlfight» Anika Noni Rose — «For Colored Girls,» «Dreamgirls» Cecilia Roth — «Lucia Lucia,» «All About My Mother» Mark Rylance — «Bridge of Spies,» «The Other Boleyn Girl» Pepe Serna — «The Black Dahlia,» «The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez» Martin Starr — «I'll See You in My Dreams,» «Adventureland» Elizabeth Sung — «Memoirs of a Geisha,» «The Joy Luck Club» Sharmila Tagore — «Dhadkan,» «The World of Apu» Tessa Thompson — «Creed,» «Dear White People» Lorraine Toussaint — «Selma,» «Middle of Nowhere» Glynn Turman — «Super 8,» «Men of Honor» Gabrielle Union — «Top Five,» «Bad Boys II» Jacob Vargas — «The 33,» «Jarhead» Alicia Vikander — «The Danish Girl,» «Ex Machina» Emma Watson — «The Bling Ring,» «The Perks of Being a Wallflower» Damon Wayans, Jr. — «Big Hero 6,» «Let's Be Cops» Marlon Wayans — «The Heat,» «Requiem for a Dream» Rita Wilson — «It's Complicated,» «Runaway Bride» Daphne Zuniga — «Staying Together,» «Spaceballs»

He is God's clinically depressed man — a former military chaplain, an alcoholic haunted by his son's death in the Iraq War, privately humiliated by the example of Christ and the stern Dutch ministers who once hid runaway slaves under the floorboards of this small clapboard church.

It's too late to fix the Free State of Jones, director - writer Gary Ross» well - meaning historical drama about the curious case of Newton Knight, an army deserter who inspired a mixed race coalition of Mississippi farmers and runaway slaves to revolt against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

It is not just the lovely clothes the Northups wear, but a lack of contextual information that might guide the unwary about how slavery operated in the America of 1841: the battle between slave and free states; freedom roads heading north; kidnappers like Northup's assailants heading south with «runaways», real or not.

One can't help but wonder if some of the emotional and thematic impact that's lacking here might have been better engendered if, say, the film had more room for Rachel (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), a slave on a local plantation who later becomes Newton's second wife, or Moses (Mahershala Ali), a runaway who fights for voting rights for freedmen when the war is finished.

Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man.

WHAT: After witnessing his young nephew killed while fighting on the front line of the Civil War, army medic Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and runaway slaves in a rebellion against the local Confederate Army.

After the first Maroon War (1730 - 1739), in which the Maroons were led by Queen Nanny, a treaty was agreed that gave the Maroons control over large areas of land in return for agreeing to return runaway slaves and to help put down revolts or outside invasions.

Victor's mission is to infiltrate the system, discover the whereabouts of each escapee and report them to his bosses, who in turn swoop in to apprehend the runaway slave.

Reading it, I experienced Cora's longing, terror, uncertainty, anger... her feelings not just as a runaway slave but as a black person in America today, still on that journey of struggle for freedom and the respect and security that comes with it, which I, as a white person, take for granted.

When a runaway slave washes up on her shore, Emily is at first ready to shoot him, but she lets him help with the lighthouse, and he soon wins the hearts of the Lowry family.

Victor is a bounty hunter tasked with finding runaway slaves, which puts him in an understandably awkward (if that understatement will do here) position: he uses his race to ingratiate himself into the lives of other African - Americans whom he will eventually betray.

Curtis» gripping account of the first free child born in Canada's Buxton Settlement for runaway slaves uses a young boy's perspective to relate the horrors his parents escaped, the continuing danger, and the kindness of the people in the community.

In three new books, George Washington's runaway slave achieves freedom, members of the black elite in post-Reconstruction Washington, D.C., wrestle with Jim Crow and a Mississippi murder re-invigorates the civil rights movement.

In 1999, I was reading a nonfiction book on runaway slaves and came across a few lines and an endnote about an Antebellum divorce case from the Circuit Court in Talladega, Alabama (the city's lovely courthouse, built in 1836 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is still in use and is the oldest working courthouse in the U.S.).

From the New York Times - bestselling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page - turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher.

The Fila Brasileiro is a large breed of dog developed in Brazil to guard livestock, protect the homestead, and chase down runaway slaves.

But the pattern of the holes is based on a Congolese cosmological symbol and copied from breathing holes used by runaway slaves hiding beneath a church in Savannah.

Glenn Ligon's Runaway series from 1993 is a conceptual self - portrait consisting of contemporary descriptions of the artist juxtaposed with images garnered from advertisements designed to capture runaway Runaway series from 1993 is a conceptual self - portrait consisting of contemporary descriptions of the artist juxtaposed with images garnered from advertisements designed to capture runaway runaway slaves.

Visual artists, such as Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Frederic Church, and Sanford Gifford, depict scenes of soldiers at camp and snipers taking aim, but they also depict genre scenes of runaway and former slaves, dark storm clouds approaching, and ships stuck in ice.

Like his fellow members of the «Yellow Pocahontas» tribe, Montana is black; the unique Mardi Gras Indian tradition he celebrates, with its headdresses and traditional Native American chants meant to honour the indigenous people who sheltered runaway slaves, complicate contemporary conversations about cultural appropriation.

The crude, generic figures in this suite of prints were originally rendered as illustrations for runaway slave posters.

The tree, which has the graves of lynched victims around the base, features in the film, during a scene where two runaway slaves are hanged.

In fact, roughly a dozen of its occupants over the course of its history have owned slaves, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson (the latter of whom once placed an ad for a runaway that offered $ 10 extra for «every hundred lashes any person will give him»).

The legacy of slavery is addressed in Glenn Ligon's lithographs formatted to look like 19th - century wanted posters for runaway slaves, with Mr. Ligon in the role of the fugitive.

ceiba: reconsidering ephemeral spaces explores topics implicative of transcultural migration through a multimedia installation centered around Fort Mose in St. Augustine, Florida, an area founded in 1739 by runaway African slaves and Native Americans fleeing British persecution.