Sentences with phrase «plantation owner on»

Don Pedro remarks that the British are hypocrites because they block slave ships coming into Cuba on the one hand but purchase Cuban sugar and provide loans to the plantation owners on the other.

Not exact matches

What it's about: Based on the acclaimed play, «South Pacific» is about a nurse who falls in love with an older French plantation owner with mixed - race children she has trouble accepting.

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

The likelihood that Maunsel White and Edmund McIlhenny were more than mere acquaintances is certainly enhanced by the fact that prominent New Orleans banker Edmund McIlhenny married plantation owner Daniel Averys daughter, Mary Eliza Avery, on June 30, 1859 in St. James Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge.

«And since the government's largesse — according to The Australian Financial Review on Monday — goes to Darwin port owners, Wilmar Sugar and JBS Swift — all monopolistic foreign corporations with plantation farming, foreign fly - ins, contractors and mill workers — what benefit is this to Australia?»

No just as the Slave owners of our first Civil War, who needed African slaves on their Plantations, to make them economically viable for the Southern Aristocracy to maintain their affluence, the Anti Gov forces of today seek a totally deregulated American economy.

It's a pretty safe bet to assume that only Quentin Tarantino could convince a studio to release a film set in the slave - owning South that follows a freed slave who, under the guidance of a German bounty hunter, becomes a deadly assassin hellbent on rescuing his wife from an evil plantation owner.

He ends up on a below - the - border plantation, where he rescues the pretty owner (Dorothy Burgess) from the skullduggery of bandit leader Santono (Noah Beery Sr.) For an actor who was considered a has - been, Monte Blue gives a persuasively virile performance, though he's a bit thick in the middle to be thoroughly convincing as a «young» hero.

Along the way, a strong bond is formed between Shultz and Django which leads them on an adventure to rescue Django's wife from the dastardly plantation owner Calvin Candie.

On the opposite side, Michael Fassbender as one of the vile plantation owners is as evil as they come, and he completely embodies his performance, acting almost reptilian.

Django (Jamie Foxx) goes on to team up with Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German bounty hunter interested in the large reward on Big John, to free his wife from the clutches of villainous plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Effectively shot by McQueen's longtime cinematographer Sean Bobbitt on several real Louisiana plantations, «12 Years» explores a number of odd corners of the slavery situation, like the slave Mistress Shaw (Alfre Woodard) who is married to the plantation owner and serves an elaborate tea on Sunday mornings.

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.

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).

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).

Before long he's on a boat with other kidnap victims and being marketed, naked, in front of Louisiana plantation owners.

He spent twelve years on a plantation in Louisiana serving the brutal and abusive owner Edwin Epps.

Interestingly, both of the main plantation owners shown utilize scriptures in the Bible as their justification for their actions, though they only key in on a handful out of context and ignore all of the many, many others that run counter to their twisted philosophy.

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.

This film takes us back to the great depression era on the west coast where hordes of homeless roamed the lands looking for jobs and were taken advantage of by wealthy plantation owners.

Principal among his supporters on the plantation were Elizabeth Turner (Penelope Ann Miller who has a wonderful expressive face in this role), and the son of the owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), whose friendship with Nat wavers in maturity.

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

It would be important as a way for slaves to know «the lay of the land,» too, whether adapting to a different plantation or owner, or to different locations on the journey to the North and freedom.

Through the differences between James and Terence, or Caesar's experience of Virginia and Randall Island, or Cora's journey, it shows the way its conventions varied from state to state, or from master to master, and therefore the ultimate cruelty of traumatic disorientation, never knowing what to expect, as slaves were sold from one plantation to another, since there were no restraints on just how viciously an owner might punish or even torture a slave for how slight a transgression.What might be acceptable in one place isn't in another.

It was grown on large plantations, but the crash in the world coffee market in 1899 caused plantation owners to have to lease out their land to their workers.

However, in 1942 a devastating hurricane hit the island reeking havoc on the houses and flattening many of the coconut plantations, forcing many laborers and plantation owners to seek new professions.

One book by a local author, «The Suicide Club» (huge gambling in Matara), Herman Gunaratne, owner of an Ahangama tea plantation with great tours very close by, takes readers on a journey through the British plantation Raj during its heyday and what has become of it all in these post-colonial times... interesting read...!

Brunias painted plantation owners as well as noble savages, not to mention soldiers intent on «pacification,» as a very different ideal, and El Museo del Barrio continues with a brutal taste of the slave trade's real gold.

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.