Sentences with phrase «of slavemaster»

Thomas Jefferson's slave was his wife's slave half sister, which just meant she was the product of a slavemaster and slave.

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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.
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