Sentences with phrase «of slave trader»

Also among the highlights are St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral; Christ Church Anglican Cathedral commemorating the work of David Livingston in abolishing the slave trade and built on the site of the last slave market; and the residence of the slave trader Tippu Tip.

He is ordered to be killed but manages to escape, ending up in the hands of slave trader Proximo (Oliver Reed), who pits him into the Roman Colosseum as a gladiator.

100 years earlier in 1748, John Newton the Captain of a slave trader sails from Africa with a cargo of slaves, bound for America.

Because of the need to atone for the crimes of the slave traders and the rapacious settlers of the West and undo the consequences of those injustices, the liberal tells the prospective welfare state contributor.

The Bible doesn't give an endorsement of slave traders but the opposite (1 Timothy 1:10).

Get Out managed to strike a deep nerve with the zeitgeist, resonating with themes of black excellence and white subjugation, exploring how American racial relations tick all the way back to the days of the slave traders and the traded.

There have been comparisons of abolition with mitigation, allowing academic activists to claimt that climate sceptics were the latter day moral equivalent of slave traders.

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9We also know that lawa is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers — and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

It is no longer possible to bring the slave owners and traders to justice — yet the legacy of their crimes continues to benefit those who inherited the power and privileges that emerged from that injustice.

Until the rise of a market and bourgeois ideology, until those devout Quaker traders — even slave traders — around 1780, it had occurred to no one that slavery was anything but God's plan.

Tribal leaders also sold slaves to European traders who then transported and sold those slaves to Americans in the deep south USA, most of whom claimed to be Christians just as today.

The people of this island near Cancún in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula are peaceful descendants of fisherman and, some would say, pirates, as Isla Mujeres was once the home of the infamous pirate and slave trader Mundaca.

Arab traders had virtual control of the region — especially the coast — for a thousand years, while trading in spices and slaves.

Peppers may have been brought into North America by coastal traders or slaves born in the West Indies, where European explorers described the use of hot peppers to enliven the native dishes.

The reported slave auctions have raised questions about whether European Union migration agreements meant to curb Mediterranean crossings are instead turning human traffickers into slave traders as increasing numbers of migrants find themselves stuck in Libya, penniless, desperate and vulnerable.

The network of those involved in slave trade included men who participated in raids, slave traders and customers representing the leading class of society.

It shows likely genetic impacts of historical events including European colonialism, the Mongol Empire, the Arab slave trade and European traders near the Silk Road mixing with people in China.

From the eighth century onward, the Indian Ocean was the scene of extensive trade of sub-Saharan African slaves via sea routes controlled by Muslim Arab and Swahili traders.

One of his slaves, Broomhilda (a luminous Kerry Washington), is Django's wife, and Schultz and Django now pretend to be slave traders to fool Candie into selling her.

With his heavy Bronx accent, Tony Curtis is more earnest than accurate as Antoninus, «duh singah of sawngs,» but the other cast members are excellent, particularly Charles Laughton as the shrewd Roman council member Gracchus, Laurence Olivier (exuding white - collar wickedness) as Roman leader Crassus and scene - stealing Peter Ustinov as the droll slave trader Batiatus.

March 28, 2018 • He's known as «one of the most virtuous and wise sons» of Bristol, but the philanthropist Edward Colston made his fortune as a 17th century slave trader.

A light nudge, I'm sure), played by the incredible Christoph Waltz, inquires upon two traveling slave traders looking for a specific purchase they may have made recently that goes by the name of Django (Jamie Foxx).

A pimped out Don Johnson as Big Daddy Bennett was almost too much for me to take the movie seriously, but thankfully the plantation owner and slave trader isn't over used and is instead given the perfect amount of screen time.

Considering its notoriously troubled history — the $ 175 million project, directed by first - timer Carl Rinsch, went into production almost three years ago — some blatant re-cutting is expected; the Dejima episode, where Ôishi goes to rescue Kai from Dutch slave traders, feels like a severely shortened version of a longer sequence.

Running twenty - six episodes, the first thirteen cover the creation story and a couple of battles with merman Namor, Dr. Doom, and, after the arrival of special guest hero Silver Surfer, intergalactic slave trader Galactus.

Ejiofor has been roundly praised for his exceptonal acting talents, as have the rest of the cast, who include Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alfre Woodard and Michael Fassbender, whose role as the heartless slave trader Edwin Epps has also been widely applauded for his unflinching brutality and realism.

But they drug him and sell him to slave traders, who send him to New Orleans and strip him of his identity.

The homecoming proves to be far from sweet, and before one can say «Murphy's Law,» Maximus is captured by slave traders, who then sell him to Proximo (the late Oliver Reed), a trainer of Roman gladiators.

I play a guy who was one of the wealthiest slave traders in America, at the time.

Giamatti talked about how wild it was to be a part of such a historically terrifying story, that he describes as «a horror movie, in itself,» and said that he played one of the wealthiest slave traders in America, at that time, how difficult it was to do some of what his characters does to these people, and how amazing it was to work with the director, who wanted to create a world it which these actions were completely normal.

The slave trade is illegal in many parts of the world — but some slave traders pay no attention to the laws.

There a Portuguese slave trader purchased about 500 of the Africans and illegally transported them on the slave ship Tecora to Havana, Cuba.

Excerpts from Slave Narratives This wonderful resource includes more than 40 narratives including a European slave trader describing a shipboard revolt by enslaved Africans (1700); a doctor describing conditions on an English slaver (1788); Venture Smith relating the story of his kidnapping at age six (1798); a woman learning that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869); and a slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1Slave Narratives This wonderful resource includes more than 40 narratives including a European slave trader describing a shipboard revolt by enslaved Africans (1700); a doctor describing conditions on an English slaver (1788); Venture Smith relating the story of his kidnapping at age six (1798); a woman learning that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869); and a slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1slave trader describing a shipboard revolt by enslaved Africans (1700); a doctor describing conditions on an English slaver (1788); Venture Smith relating the story of his kidnapping at age six (1798); a woman learning that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869); and a slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1789).

Fischer: During my second year of teaching, in the mid-1970s, I recall simulating the African slave trade by having students rotating on a daily basis for about a week various roles associated with that topic — tribal chief, slave trader, colonial buyer, and slave.

The trader called upon the tobacco plantation looking for slaves of breeding age, preferably with all their teeth and of pliable disposition.

So it is that just as the young and stunning Effia Otcher from the Fanteland region is promised in marriage to a white slave trader James Collins, a match that ensures the consolidation of her family's socioeconomic status, her half - sister Esi, belonging to another tribe, is swept up in the country's booming slave trade.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi This novel spans three continents recounting the origin of the slave trade on the Gold Coast of Africa to the traders in England and the plantations in America and its effects on one family across multiple generations.

At the time, I knew several things about Forrest: How the former slave trader and plantation owner rose to the rank of general during the Civil War.

The island, which sits about eight miles off the Yucatan peninsula, is home to interesting sites, including Hacienda Mundaca, the ruined mansion of a 19th - century slave trader and some peaceful, sea - turtle frequented white - sand beaches.

Prominent slave trader and arena master, Marwan (bad guy from Blackguards), ends up marrying her as a sign of his status.

Instead, during a tour of Cape Coast Castle, one of about 30 slave castles built in Ghana by European traders, «Homegoing» was born.

Hank talked about the Middle Passage, when slave traders kidnapped millions of people of diverse cultures, languages and identities, packed them tightly into ships, sent them halfway around the world and put them in the same category as a people.

They included other Europeans who sought similar adventures and the porters and guides who bore the weight of their supplies as well as slaves freed from Arab slave traders.

We have also noted attempts to apply the morality of abolition of slavery to the climate debate, to make «deniers» today's equivalent of yesterday's slave - traders.