Sentences with phrase «pre-civil war times»

Packed with stars and cameos — Brad Pitt, Paul Dano, Michael K. Williams, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Alfre Woodard, Scoot McNairy — the movie belongs to Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, an African American man kidnapped from New York and sold into slavery in pre-Civil War times.

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By the time you've completed watching the staggering, true tale of Solomon Northup — a free black man in the pre-Civil War American North who was kidnapped, taken from his family and sold into slavery for 12 years — you'll be shaken to your very core.

I don't have time to give you a pre-civil war history lesson.

Though the U.S. Supreme Court has not heard a design patent case since 1871 — that one involved the ornamentation on some pre-Civil War silver flatware handles — it might be time for a fresh look.