Sentences with phrase «plantation owners used»
States rights was the pretext that plantation owners used to motivate others to die in their stead.
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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.
Using Northup's book of his actual accounts, John Ridley's (Red Tails) script plainly depicts the hypocrisy of the plantation owners spouting scripture one moment and then viciously beating or raping their slaves the next.
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.
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.
Using art objects commissioned by plantation owners for their mansions — among them the first landscape images painted in the region — the show also explores the culture of tobacco, its workers, its marketing, and its associations with modernity.