Sentences with phrase «plantation owner cavin»

One advantage was that if a labourer was evicted by a plantation owner or had to go elsewhere for work, the home could easily be dismantled and moved.

He was known as a sugar plantation owner and as an active promoter of railroads in the southeast of the United States.

The client might want the lawyer to make an argument that implies with dog whistle type statements that the victim was a gay Jewish black man who didn't deserve to live anyway, while the client was the descendant of a plantation owner who was active protecting KKK interests in the county, and effectively nudge the jury to engage in jury nullification and acquit the client even if they believe that he is guilty.

A Confederate soldier (portrayed by Andrew Hoisington, standing) and a Southern plantation owner (portrayed by Thomas Tear) strike a formal pose during a reenactment of the 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia.

The piece illustrates a meeting between Princess Augusta and plantation owner Eliza Lucas Pinckney in 1753, for which the latter wore a dress made from silk produced on her land by slaves.

While rushing to follow him, I barge into some plantation owner - looking fossil, he alerts the guards which ends in me getting shot to shit while staggering down the gangway.

The Cobblers Cove main house, now known as the Great House, was built in 1943 by plantation owner Joss Haynes and has undergone extensive renovations and expansion works over the years to complete its transformation from a family beach house to a luxury boutique resort hotel.

Step inside the colonial - era great house owned by Jamaica's largest plantation owner in the 1700s.

Plantations (7 %): Wilmar, a palm - oil plantation owner & refiner, which owns / manages over 700,000 acres of plantations.

I have co-authored / edited several history books produced by my publishing company and recently released my first work of fiction, a novel about a time travelling, slave owning cotton plantation owner.

Angels Watching Over Me by Michael Phillips — 4 stars, 232 reviews — Two young Southern girls, one the daughter of a plantation owner and one the daughter of a slave, barely survive the onset of the Civil War and the loss of both their families.

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.

Nineteen - year - old Gwendolyn Hooper is the new bride of the plantation owner, Laurence, a wealthy and charming widower.

I had what I thought was a great chapter on a runaway slave taken from a plantation owner's diary.

Huppert plays a French plantation owner in West Africa determined to harvest the coffee crop while life as she knows it is going up in the flames of a conflict in which the contending armies (government, rebels) are nearly indistinguishable.

My only quibble with President Obama's picks here is with his predecessor Washington, a wealthy plantation owner who never emancipated his 300 + slaves at Mount Vernon, not even upon his death.

First, this caveat: I've still not seen three films said to be strong contenders, so it's too early to list these here: «Les Miserables,» directed by Tom Hooper, who made «The King's Speech;» Kathryn Bigelow's «Zero Dark Thirty,» about the killing of Bin Laden, and Quentin Tarantino's «Django Unchained,» with Jamie Foxx as an escaped slave and Leonardo DiCaprio as a plantation owner.

In the book Uncle Tom is a middle - aged slave sold downriver again and again until finally he ends up the property of Simon Legree, a monstrous plantation owner who forbids him from reading the Bible and commands him to thrash other slaves.

Schultz agrees to both grant Django his legal freedom and to help him rescue his beloved wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from the clutches of a brutal Mississippi plantation owner named Calvin J. Candie (Leonardo Di Caprio) in exchange for his assistance in completing an assortment of bounty missions over the winter.

The Weinstein Company's «Django Unchained,» which is set for a Christmas Day release, also had four nominations, including one for Outstanding Motion Picture and an Outstanding Actor nomination for Foxx, who plays a slave - turned - bounty hunter attempting to rescue his wife from a Mississippi plantation owner.

The film stars Jamie Foxx as Django, an escaped slave who goes to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) by teaming up with bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz).

There, he is purchased by the beautiful niece (de Havilland's Arabella) of a vicious plantation owner (Lionel Atwill's Col. Bishop), but during an attack on the colony by a Spanish armada, Blood takes to the ocean aboard a stolen army vessel.

The Oscar - winning, Gone With the Wind is an epic saga of a plantation owner caught in the War Between the States.

By the time Leonardo DiCaprio's charming but villainous plantation owner is introduced, however, the movie starts to lose steam.

Schultz, a German who abhors slavery, needs Django's help in tracking down some ornery varmints; for his part, Django requires Schultz's aid in rescuing his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from the sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Vazante (Unrated) 19th Century saga, set in Brazil's Diamantina Mountains, about a slave - trading plantation owner (Adriano Carvalho) who decides to marry his 12 year - old niece (Luana Nastas), after his wife dies during childbirth.

His stunt casting remains an appealing and integral part of his process (this one includes Don Johnson as plantation owner Big Daddy to Jonah Hill as a KKK member in a broadly comedic and comedically long sequence to Samuel L. Jackson uncovering some range as an Uncle Tom - type servant).

In Val Lewton's moody little fantastic horror flick, mousy nurse Betsy goes to the Caribbean to care for afflicted Jessica, the wife of an important plantation owner.

Michael Fassbender earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as a drunken, twisted, mean - spirited plantation owner, but I found Paul Dano's interpretation of a sadistic overseer who senses Northrup's superiority to be just as praiseworthy.

And then there are a few jarring scenes involving Pitt's character who descends bearded and Jesus - like, deus ex machina to save the day — but not before he debates the injustice of slavery with the nasty plantation owner.

From Jamie Foxx to Christoph Waltz to Leonardo DiCaprio to Kerry Washington to Samuel L. Jackson — even to Don Johnson as a plantation owner named Big Daddy — the cast raises the film to great heights, even when Tarantino gives in to too many juvenile urges, as he does upon occasion (it's like he just can't help himself — and who's going to tell him no?).

Others among the supporting cast are used more effectively — Paul Giamatti and Paul Dano as respectively — a callous slaver and plantation foreman, and Alfre Woodward, striking in her few onscreen minutes, as a former slave, now married to a plantation owner.

Key supporting work comes from David Oyelowo as the couple's Black Panther son, Vanessa Redgrave as the plantation owner of the butler's youth, Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan and — most amusingly of all — Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan.

Benedict Cumberbatch as the patrician plantation owner lays bare the price of complacency.

A few years later in 1859, playwright Dion Boucicault halved the calculation and doubled the drama creating THE OCTOROON, a play about a beautiful woman named Zoe (the touching Shawna M. James) who is 1/8 black and the illegitimate daughter of the plantation owner.

The plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

He's joined by Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz, and Leonardo DiCaprio as Candyland plantation owner Calvin Candie, with Samuel L. Jackson.

Based on a true story, the plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

McQueen is faithful to his actors — here we get to experience yet another unforgettable performance from Michael Fassbender, this time as the morally and psychologically unstable, demonic slaver and plantation owner Edwin Epps.

Very violent yet hilariously funny, superb acting from all corners - Waltz and Jackson steal the show while Leo shows up in an awesome turn as a plantation owner and superb visuals... and then there are the Tarantino trademarks - sharp dialogue, humor mixed easily with fear and so much more...

Rating: R Year: 1999 Cast: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright Director: Ang Lee After his family is massacred by Union marauders, a plantation owner's son and his best friend create a rag - tag group of Confederate guerrillas to seek revenge.

Benedict Cumberbatch is a plantation owner who has a heart, but lacks business savvy.

In 1776 South Carolina, a pacifist plantation owner joins the War for Independence after a British officer murders his 15 - year - old son.

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.

Smith was originally rumored to be considering playing the character of Django, a slave who embarks with Schultz on a mission to free Django's wife, who is working as a slave in the house of sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Solomon is purchased by plantation owner, Mr. Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch, Star Trek Into Darkness), a complex character who seems appalled by the harsher aspects of slavery, but not so much that he'll stop buying slaves.

Additionally, Ridley shatters the image of the gentle Southern plantation owner's wife revealing them to be equally hate - filled and spiteful.

In 1841, he is kidnapped, shipped to New Orleans, and sold to the plantation owner Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch).

A white plantation owner will not leave her property after the political situation turns quite hostile and child soldiers start walking around with AK - 47s.

In point of fact, he seems to be based on the militia leader Francis Marion, a South Carolina plantation owner and veteran of the Indian wars who was known as «the Swamp Fox» for his effective use of the local terrain in springing guerrilla assaults on British troops.