Sentences with phrase «plantation owners who»

Paso Fino — A Spanish breed, the Paso Fino was originally created by Puerto Rican and Columbian plantation owners who wanted horses with good endurance and a smooth gait.

Its economy was destroyed during the Civil War, and took further blows during the Reconstruction era at the hand of «carpetbaggers» from the North, particularly involving Northern banks providing financing to plantation owners who would pledge their land as collateral and often lost that land when they failed to repay the loans as agreed.

I can't support the majority when they are terribley wrong...» In defense of christians... you are referring to the southern cult (Baptists) that later apologized for its part in supporting slavery... and yes, they did it to keep gietting MONEY from the wealthy plantation owners who had started donating to the church...

If you believe this form of slavery is a moral practice, then do you extend this favorable morality position to the directly analogous antebellum southern plantation owners who owned Africans as personal property?

There's a marvelous episode with a plantation owner who is played by Don Johnson and looks like Colonel Sanders, an episode that includes a lynch - mob scene that plays like a «Mr. Show» sketch.

The film stars Mel Gibson as a widowed South Carolina plantation owner who's reluctantly drawn into the early skirmishes of the American Revolution.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Those measures ensured that black people would always be working for those who could legally conduct commerce: white plantation owners.

It's like in the days of slavery: if you went to a cotton plantation and asked the slaves and slaveowners who they thought made better slaveowners and better slaves, you would EXPECT them to say, «White people are better slave owners and Africans make better slaves.»

[8] Lawyer, representative to the General Assembly from Baton Rouge, and eventual Judge Daniel Avery, who was also joint owner of the Petit Anse Island sugar plantation, and Deer Range sugar plantation owner Maunsel White, became colleagues.

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.

Six months later (as we enter the middle third of the movie), after the duo have become bounty hunting partners, the pair finally set off in search of their main goal — rescuing Djagno's wife Broomhilda, a slaved played by Kerry Washington who has been sold to a nasty Mandingo baron and plantation owner Calvin Candie (played with delicious relish by Leonardo DiCaprio).

That arrangement sets the pieces in motion for a riotous buddy comedy in which the duo capture plenty of bounty before hurtling toward their final target, wealthy plantation owner Calvin Candy (Leonardo DiCaprio, over the top even by these standards), who keeps Broomhilda locked up in a dismal existence at the appropriately - titled Candyland.

There are encounters with a comical predecessor of the KKK (led by a terrifically over the top Don Johnson), a small town sheriff who is not what he seems and, of course, the very proper southern gentleman / Mandingo fighting aficionado and plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio)-- and his right hand plantation man, house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson, stealing every scene he's in in a scary, mean, dangerously funny role).

Jamie Foxx as the slave who comes into his own, Kerry Washington as his lost wife Broomhilda, who works for DiCaprio's plantation owner and Mandingo purveyor Calvin Candie, and German bounty hunter Christoph Waltz are all excellent.

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.

«Django Unchained» follows Jamie Foxx as Django, a freed American slave who teams with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to save his wife from Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), an evil plantation owner.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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?).

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

Played with wide - eyed determination and desperation by an excellent Chiwetel Ejiofor, Solomon is a free man who is tricked by a couple of young shysters into losing his free papers and becoming a slave, where he remains for more than a decade under the mastery of two different plantation owners — the benevolent William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) and emasculated, tyrannical Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender).

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.

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.

Would - be authors — especially first - timers — may also be turned off by getting caught in the clutches of editors and agents who can intimidate them into walking gingerly with hat in hand so as not to upset the plantation owners and overseers.

It is named for the original owners of the plantation, the Colleton family, who also helped shape Barbados.

Everybody shows up weekends, from plantation owners to tourists, who can still pump gas out front.

The cemetary there is a labor of love by the owners of plantation during the civil war for thr confederate soldiers who lost their lives in the Battle of Franklin.