Sentences with phrase «pre-civil war years»
And during the pre-Civil War years America's most valuable export was not capital goods or financial services, it was cotton, mostly produced by slave labor.
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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.
12 Years a Slave - October 18 Shame director Steve McQueen directs Chiwetel Ejiofor in this true story about a man's fight for survival and freedom in the pre-Civil War United States.
The film «12 Years a Slave» is based on the true story of a free black man who was kidnapped into slavery in the pre-Civil War American South.
«12 Years A Slave «Synopsis: A free black man is captured and sold into slavery in pre-Civil War America.
The winner, by a reportedly slim — and hotly contested — margin: David O. Russell's rollicking late - 1970s ensemble piece, American Hustle, beating out Steve McQueen's intense pre-Civil War drama, 12 Years a Slave.
I grew up in Georgia, and even in the 1960s there were many Southerners who looked back on the pre-Civil War days as the golden years of the south.