Thomas Jefferson's slave was his wife's slave half sister, which just meant she was the product
of a slavemaster and slave.
Not exact matches
We even accepted the
slavemasters» religion
of Christianity, which teaches us that «black is a curse.»
He... he spoke like a
slavemaster in the old days
of our servitude when we were conditioned to mechanical obedience.
When Waltz uses a self - consciously ostentatious word like «ascertain» (as in, «I was simply trying to ascertain...» — the kind
of verbiage QT is as likely to put in the mouth
of a lowlife crook as a German dentist, or a Francophile plantation
slavemaster, for that matter), it sounds right.
This brings to mind a collection
of other far - left - leaning pop - films that find our way
of life — the concept
of the American Dream itself — particularly dubious: Nightcrawler's gaze at death incurred by corporate lingo and unregulated industries, A Most Violent Year's lament for the impossibility
of moral management, Foxcatcher's conception
of America as a land
of slaves and
slavemasters, Fury's abject refusal to render Americans the «good guys» even when fighting fascism, the entirety
of Inherent Vice.
Chiwetel Ejiofor gives a performance
of incomparable heroism and presence as Northup; Lupita Nyong» o is passionate and defiant in the role
of his fellow prisoner Patsey, and Michael Fassbender is the sadistic
slavemaster Epps, whose habitual sexual abuse and angry self - hate is revealed to be a pathological and under - reported part
of the system; a system, which in the words
of one character, enables the abuser's violence to «trample his guilty sensation».
This is a truly bad - ass time to be an author, and this makes it sounds like we're fighting some fucking apocalyptic hell - battle on steeds made
of Kindles and jousting ostriches ridden by
slavemaster Big Five editors.