Sentences with phrase «of slave owners»

A child born between two slaves is the property of the slave owner.

Still other children have endured torture at the hands of slave owners, or have witnessed torture at the hands of enemies.

I suspect you will come with up with a number greater than zero, but I also suspect the actual number is much, much less than the number of slave owners.

I don't see how the ethnicity of the slave owner has any relevance.

In its infancy, many of its first policies were actually issued on the lives of slaves for the benefit of the slave owners.

Set in the antebellum South, «The Birth of a Nation» follows Nat Turner, a preacher whose organized revolt led to the death of dozens of slave owners in 1831.

We can find examples of slave owners from every group, including the non-religious and atheistic ones.

«Democrats protected the rights of the slave owners in the south.»

Many of the slave owners of the Americas attended church regularly.

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.

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.

They quickly learn that Broomhilda, called Hildy, has been purchased by one Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the scion of a long line of slave owners and the overseer of Candyland, one of the biggest (and thus meanest) plantations in the South.

Nat Turner's uprising lasted a mere 48 hours, and resulted in the slaughtering of dozens of slave owners and their families.

Taking inspiration from Harriet Tubman's slated replacement of President Andrew Jackson on the $ 20 bill, members of the City Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus are calling on the New York City Housing Authority to wipe the names of slave owners from its developments — potentially including the names of five former U.S. presidents.

Scenes involving the brutality of slave owners unfold in real - time, and without allowing the audience the benefit of a cutaway to more pleasant scenes.

The film, based on a true story, stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, a genteel New Yorker born into freedom who was kidnapped in 1841, trafficked to Louisiana, and sold to a series of slave owners (Paul Giamatti, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender) who are increasingly cruel and unusual.

Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) was born and raised in Jones County, Mississippi, the grandson of a slave owner, making him, at first blush, a very unlikely figure to mount a revolt.

Without Polly's healing, Granada wouid have continued to be only a reflection of the slave owners views and would not have become a healer herself.

If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former...

I don't think a lot of players see themselves in the role of slave owners, and however cool Conan Exiles may make it seem, it could put the community in an uncomfortable position to either embrace it, ignore it, or reject it.

«Islamic texts have spoken about slavery and the rights of a slave, and there's a whole jurisprudence about slavery and the rights of slaves and the rights of slave owners.»

African - Americans tend to be Baptist or Methodist because many of the slave owners were of those particular denominations, therefore that is what they grew up in.

The literature clearly establishes that a legally sanctioned law enforcement system existed in America before the Civil War for the express purpose of controlling the slave population and protecting the interests of slave owners.

If you're against black women dating white men because a small percentage of white men owned slaves 150 years ago, you have to be against all black people dating any white person because they could all be descendants of slave owners.

Well, a pusher is never happy when an addict is trying to get rid of him, and the end of slavery hurt the bottom line of slave owners.

It sounds like it'll be one of his more unsympathetic characters, of a slave owner who brutalizes Ejiofor's character, a free man kidnapped and forced into the titular dozen years of enslavement, before a Canadian lawyer (Fassbender) helps him gain his freedom.

Since America was not a nation until the Constltution was ratified, or perhaps when the Declaration of Independence was signed, then at that moment — ALL of the slave owners were «first»... yes?