Sentences with phrase «of slave rebellions»

Beyond the Townsend estate, the known world also unravels: low - paid white patrollers stand watch as slave «speculators» sell free black people into slavery, and rumors of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years.

The birthing process of a young United States that was only 55 years old at the time of a slave rebellion.

Born Alalia Chetwynd, she changed her name to the leader of a slave rebellion against Rome in 73 BC on her 33rd birthday.

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Should the Lee and Jackson windows be figuratively disinterred for their own rebellion on behalf of a slave culture?

The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult guerrilla army engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex slaves.

Birth of a Nation tells the story of Nat Turner, a slave and Christian preacher who led a rebellion in 1831.

At the time of the Revolution, statutes in most of the colonies prescribed hanging for about a dozen offenses — among them murder, treason, piracy, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, sodomy and (in some cases) counterfeiting, horse theft and slave rebellion.

The film tells the true story of slave and preacher Nat Turner, who led a slave rebellion in 1831.

But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Because the lives of these ant slaves are so hopeless — they have no chance to reproduce, after all — scientists long assumed they would find no benefit in rebellion.

In 1865 it was the starting point of the Morant Bay Rebellion, the only major peasant revolt (as distinguished from slave rebellions and worker uprisings), in Jamaican history.

Provocative onscreen and off, Nate Parker's slave - rebellion drama pulls off a hijacking before it even begins: that of the title of DW Griffith's 1915 silent epic movie known for celebrating the Ku Klux Klan and for demonising angry black men as rapists of white women.

«The Birth of a Nation» Lowdown: Nate Parker's directs and stars in this true story about a former slave that sparks a rebellion against white slave owners in Virginia in 1831.

In 2014, Whiplash took both awards, and this year we have another film taking the two honors as Nate Parker «s slave rebellion tale The Birth of a Nation was announced to receive both.

Parker stars in his own directorial debut as Nat Turner, a devoutly religious slave who becomes a traveling preacher — and, eventually, the leader of the bloodiest slave rebellion in American history.

Starring Aja Naomi King as Nat's wife, Armie Hammer as his slave master, and Colman Domingo as his right - hand man in the rebellion, plus supporting turns from Jackie Earle Haley, Penelope Ann Miller, Aunjanue Ellis, Mark Boone Jr., Roger Guenveur Smith, and Gabrielle Union, «Birth» provides no clear villains, instead delivering nuanced portraits of classic arcs.

Based on a true story, «Free State of Jones» will star McConaughey as Newton Knight and Mbatha - Raw as Rachel, a slave whose relationship with Knight played a central part in his life and in his armed rebellion against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

The story of Nat Turner, who led a rebellion of slaves and free black men in 1831, the film stars Nate Parker (who also directed and co-wrote the film), Gabrielle Union and Jackie Earle Haley.

It must crush the soul of an actor, though, to have people shouting the name of a wisecracking bear at him on the day his movie about a slave rebellion in Haiti opens.

With a screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo, Spartacus tells the story of a slave trained to kill in the arena who leads other slaves in rebellion.

Nat Turner, who led an aborted rebellion against his slave owners in 1831, is the subject of a Pulitzer prize - winning novel by William Styron, «The Confessions of Nat Turner.»

The Birth Of A Nation — Just one day short of a year ago, the pic starring and directed by Nate Parker about the 1831 Nat Turner - led slave rebellion debuted at Sundance and was garlanded with Oscar hopeOf A Nation — Just one day short of a year ago, the pic starring and directed by Nate Parker about the 1831 Nat Turner - led slave rebellion debuted at Sundance and was garlanded with Oscar hopeof a year ago, the pic starring and directed by Nate Parker about the 1831 Nat Turner - led slave rebellion debuted at Sundance and was garlanded with Oscar hopes.

The film — directed and written by Nate Parker, who also stars in the lead role — focuses on the story of Turner, the Virginia slave who led a rebellion against slave owners in 1831.

«The Birth of a Nation» is the true - life story of Nat Turner (played by Parker), best known for leading the most successful slave rebellion in U.S. history.

Nate Parker's historical drama «The Birth of a Nation,» which focuses on a violent 1831 slave rebellion on a Virginia plantation, is a powerful film.

Nate Parker wrote, directed and stars in «The Birth of a Nation» as Nat Turner, who led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia in 1831.

Chris Rock plays Andre Allen, the star of a film about a 19th - century slave rebellion, in the profane and very funny comedy «Top Five.»

It tells the true story of a white farmer who led a rebellion against the confederacy with the help of other farmers and local slaves.

Other times the societies he fought against destroyed him: the vengeful Detective Jim McLeod getting shot by a perp whose life he ruined in William Wyler's Detective Story (1951); Colonel Dax being sent back to the front by the World War One military brass he dared to defy in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957); Spartacus getting crucified for leading a slave rebellion in Kubrick's Spartacus (1960).

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.

Aja Naomi King's movie ascendancy as the slave girl Cherry in Nate Parker's blazing battle cry, The Birth of a Nation (based on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831), is a complete boomerang from the role that made her television rep.. After an assortment of credits in film («Positive Polly» in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress and Rosa in the underseen comedy The Rewrite) and in prime - time series such as Emily Owens, M.D. and The Blacklist, King was whisked aboard the mother ship of Shondaland's How to Get Away with Murder, starring the inviolable Viola Davis.

His plans for a slave rebellion go together, with an eclipse of the sun taken as a sign.

This is a biopic of Nat Turner, a slave who led a rebellion in 1830s Virginia, and is the feature debut of actor - turned - writer - director Nate Parker.

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The combination of history, art, and impassioned commentary will draw kids in to the questions raised by Brown's narrative paintings that show what it was like to be a slave — the suffering, anger, defiance, endurance, and rebellion under unspeakable conditions.

The rebellion began in the late hours of August 21 when Turner and his fellow slaves murdered their master, Benjamin Travis and his family.

I see men in split breeches and bloody longcoats and they talk, but blood comes out of their mouths and good heavens that slave rebellion was such ghastly business and that queen has of course been of bloody awful use ever since the West India Company began their rather shoddy decline compared to the East and why are there so many negroes taking to sleeping so unsoundly wherever they see fit and confound it all I seem to have misplaced the left half of my face.

So far (I'm about two - thirds finished), the major event in the novel has been the Haitian slave rebellion led by Toussaint Louverture at the turn of the 18th century.

These hinterlands are the homeland of Ruso's slave, Tilla, who has scores of her own to settle there: Her tribespeople are fomenting a rebellion against Roman control, and her former lover is implicated in the grisly murder of a soldier.

Starting out at Fond Gens Libre — or «Village of the Free People», named after the freedom fighters who took refuge there in the 1748 slave rebellion — you'll walk past colorful flora and fauna as you take in the gasp - inducing views.

Munch's Oddysee carries many similar themes and mechanics to Abe's Oddysee, including the planned extinction of a species, rescuing slaves and test subjects, and the ability to take control of your enemies, but expands massively with the option to switch characters at any time, pick up and throw objects, swim in water, and use new GameSpeak to incite slave rebellions, native uprisings and lab rat revolutions.

And McMillian's performance - based videos often recast significant events — from Nat Turner's slave rebellion to Ronald Reagan's Neshoba County Fair speech — as playful, disconcerting parodies that upend essentialist readings of history.

Jemison's works at MASS MoCA are also inspired in part by «The Confessions of Nat Turner,» an 1831 interview with the leader of the legendary rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Virginia.

A new exhibition displays Atlanta - based artist Hale Woodruff's series of six murals for Talladega College, Alabama, one of the first colleges established for African - American people in the United States, depicting noteworthy historical events including the Amistad slave rebellion and the opening of the college.

He is currently working on Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a project that will reenact the largest rebellion of enslaved people in North American history.

They worried that the latter would result if enslaved Africans learned about the existence of a successful slave rebellion that culminated in the emergence of a state outside of Africa, ruled by free Africans.