Sentences with phrase «runaway slave»

The crude, generic figures in this suite of prints were originally rendered as illustrations for runaway slave posters.

Most runaway slaves, if caught, faced harsh punishment and sometimes even death.

In this title, indie author Andrew Galasetti combines impeccable writing with his talent for building a story that will later continue in his work, To Breathe Free, which will continue the story of runaway slaves in the pre-Civil War southern United States.

The Great Dismal Swamp, near the city's southwest corner, carries a legacy of runaway slaves hiding for freedom.

As the viewer moved from gallery to gallery, they were presented with a series of paintings and sculptures that aggressively challenge the very idea of portraiture, from Marsden Hartley's One Portrait of One Woman (the woman being Gertrude Stein, whose work was referenced multiple times in the show) to Glenn Ligon's moving and disturbing Runaway series from 1993 that juxtaposes images of runaway slaves with descriptions of Ligon written by his friends and colleagues.

When Stephen brings Charlotte into Mammoth Cave for privacy as he teaches her to read, Charlotte finds a safe place to hide runaway slaves from the slave catchers and their dogs.

It is believed that the drilled pattern functioned as breathing holes for runaway slaves who, hiding under the floor, awaited safe transport north,» explains artist Nari Ward.

After the first Maroon War (1730 - 1739), in which the Maroons were led by Queen Nanny, a treaty was agreed that gave the Maroons control over large areas of land in return for agreeing to return runaway slaves and to help put down revolts or outside invasions.

When Black Lives Mattered, 2015, 18th Century branding iron used on runaway slaves, 100 % cotton pillow filled with down, 20 x 20 inches.

It was developed by the Awarak Indians, and later refined in Jamaica by runaway slaves known as Maroons.

First seen in chains after being sold at auction, the captured runaway slave Django (Jamie Foxx) finds an unlikely savior in the form of one Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz).

Betty DeRamus» Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad, under contract with Atria Books (Simon & Schuster) instantly captured my heart with the author's brief but evocative description circulated through a writer's conference's manuscript marketplace: My book tells true stories about runaway slaves in love.

Curtis» gripping account of the first free child born in Canada's Buxton Settlement for runaway slaves uses a young boy's perspective to relate the horrors his parents escaped, the continuing danger, and the kindness of the people in the community.

I never played the game, but I've played other US Civil War themed games, and never once did I see a requirement that a player perform acts like chasing runaway slaves.

He is God's clinically depressed man — a former military chaplain, an alcoholic haunted by his son's death in the Iraq War, privately humiliated by the example of Christ and the stern Dutch ministers who once hid runaway slaves under the floorboards of this small clapboard church.

Noll points to a great scene from Uncle Tom's Cabin in which Mary Bird tries to make the case for taking in runaway slaves based on Christ's teachings in Matthew 25.

But as his Robin Hood - like band of impoverished white farmers and runaway slaves grows, Newt starts a war within a war, and employs questionable tactics to accomplish noble ends.

Haiti had laws, back in the 1800s, welcoming to Haiti any American runaway slave anywhere in the world, and many former American slaves went to Haiti where they acquired land and had a family.

Huck goes back to the raft to figure out what to do next, and there he gets to thinking about the lessons he learned in Sunday school about what happens to people like him who assist runaway slaves.

Herders were also mercenaries, catching runaway slaves and repressing revolts.

In 1987, he starred as anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom alongside Kevin Kline, and though the film itself alienated some critics (Pauline Kael called it «dumbfounding»), Washington's powerful performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.Two years later, Washington netted another Best Supporting Actor nod — and won the award — for his turn as an embittered yet courageous runaway slave in the Civil War drama Glory.

The racial jokes include a shooting game at the annual town fair, titled Runaway Slave.

Once there, he meets Moses (Mahershala Ali) and several other runaway slaves.

He was caught by a group of runaway slave patrolmen without a pass.

Ditto the minimal racial tensions present in a unit mixing runaway slaves and AWOL Confederates.

As he finally finds refuge with a Seminole tribe who houses runaway slaves in order to grow their numbers against the US Army's attempts to remove them from their land, Samuel slowly begins to build a life for himself, even if the face of unthinkable tragedy and adversity.

In three new books, George Washington's runaway slave achieves freedom, members of the black elite in post-Reconstruction Washington, D.C., wrestle with Jim Crow and a Mississippi murder re-invigorates the civil rights movement.

Like his fellow members of the «Yellow Pocahontas» tribe, Montana is black; the unique Mardi Gras Indian tradition he celebrates, with its headdresses and traditional Native American chants meant to honour the indigenous people who sheltered runaway slaves, complicate contemporary conversations about cultural appropriation.

They frequently nullified fugitive slave laws to protect defendants accused of aiding runaway slaves.

But the pattern of the holes is based on a Congolese cosmological symbol and copied from breathing holes used by runaway slaves hiding beneath a church in Savannah.

He's a disenfranchised, runaway slave with no education who learns to read and write and really becomes a leader and an active participant in the democratic process who mobilizes others.

A large and mean - looking dog, the Dogo Cubano was bred from fighting dogs and hounds for an express purpose: chasing runaway slaves.

In 1999, I was reading a nonfiction book on runaway slaves and came across a few lines and an endnote about an Antebellum divorce case from the Circuit Court in Talladega, Alabama (the city's lovely courthouse, built in 1836 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is still in use and is the oldest working courthouse in the U.S.).

Glenn Ligon's Runaway series from 1993 is a conceptual self - portrait consisting of contemporary descriptions of the artist juxtaposed with images garnered from advertisements of runaway slaves.

Both pirates and runaway slaves used this complex of limestone caves and tunnels near Discovery Bay in the Ocho Rios area as a hiding place.

It is believed that the pattern functioned as breathing holes for runaway slaves hiding under the floor, awaiting safe transport north.

In this compelling sequel to Chains, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson shifts perspective from Isabel to Curzon and brings to the page the tale of what it takes for runaway slaves to forge their own paths in a world of obstacles — and in the midst of the American Revolution.

In Palmares (1988), the artist references the Brazilian colony occupied by runaway slaves in the seventeenth century, honoring the one - hundred year anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in Brazil.

The book of Philemon is a letter from Paul that exhorts the slave owner to accept the return of his runaway slave as an equal... a brother.

Onesimus, a runaway slave with whom Paul had become acquainted at Rome, is here commended to his master Philemon with the hope expressed «for love's sake» that Philemon will receive him «no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved... both in the flesh and in the Lord.»

In Philemon, Paul tells a man to treat a runaway slave as a brother.

Delayed in his journey because of a runaway slave, the pilgrim runs into Diogenes who then engages him in a lengthy discussion that focuses on the relationship between knowledge, use, and purpose.

Delayed in his journey because of a runaway slave, the pilgrim runs into Diogenes who then engages him in a lengthy discussion that focuses on the....

The film tells a long - forgotten, true story of poor white farmers and runaway slaves in Mississippi who rebel against the Confederacy after soldiers steal their livestock, crops and forcibly conscript boys as young as 12 into military service.