Sentences with phrase «plantation slave owner»

However Christian bashing and discrimination — ESPECIALLY Catholic bashing in modern society is regrettably as alive and well as a bigotted southern plantation slave owner in the 1840s.

Not exact matches

But then again 80 % of this country believes in mythical slave holders, and at least 60 % believe this celestial plantation owner created them.

I can't speak to the other eight but Tyson Foods and WalMart are no more Christian than slave - owning plantation owners were in the antebellum South.

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.»

After a long narrative about salary negotiations in which the book had made me look like some sort of southern plantation owner dealing with one of his slaves, he wrote: «There is no law that says you have to like your boss...»

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.

That cargo included 1000 breadfruit plants destined for the Jamaican sugar plantations, whose owners were clamouring for a cheap and reliable source of food for their slaves.

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).

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.

The trail leads to the immense plantation Candyland, owned by the brutal and racist slave owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Synopsis: With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Halle Berry stars as the title character, the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner.

They quickly learn that Broomhilda, called Hildy, has been purchased by one Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the scion of a long line of slave owners and the overseer of Candyland, one of the biggest (and thus meanest) plantations in the South.

With the help of his mentor, a slave - turned - bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Or as a vicious plantation owner in «12 Years a Slave».

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Many sequences in Steve McQueen's new movie, «12 Years a Slave» — the true story of a free black man kidnapped in 1841 and sold to Southern plantation owners — were emotionally exhausting to film.

«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.

The German - born, Ireland - raised actor plays cruel plantation owner Epps in the period drama «12 Years a Slave,» in which Brad Pitt, as a...

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.

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.

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 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.

This occupation serves him, and his master's (Hammer) well when he is hired by neighboring plantation owners to come and preach to their slaves to keep them in - line.

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.

He soon was being hired - out by his master Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer) to other plantations, whose owners wanted Nat to preach scripture to their slaves, convincing them that they should stay obedient, even under the terrible conditions of slavery.

«Django Unchained «Synopsis: A freed slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) teams up with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to track down his wife (Kerry Washington) and liberate her from her plantation owners led by the sadistic 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.

Northup's new owner, Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender) is drunk, debauched, and depraved; the outwardly courteous mistress of the plantation (Sarah Paulson) is, if anything, worse still, consumed with jealousy for a slave, Patsey (newcomer Lupita Nyong» o), with whom her husband is obsessed.

The inquiry immediately began to mirror conversations that slavers in various institutions would have, where they strived to weaken the minds of a slaves while maintaining the physical characteristics that were seen as a commodity for plantation owners.

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.

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.

Both are genre pieces that function as racial revenge fantasies: the war movie Inglourious Basterds shows Jewish - American soldiers slaughtering Nazis in occupied France, and the western Django Unchained follows a freed slave in the antebellum south as he guns down hillbillies, plantation owners, and Klansmen.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In the mid-nineteenth century, plantation owners yielded from this soil a single crop — cotton — and cotton made it slave country.

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.

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.

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.

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.