Sentences with phrase «runaway slaves»

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

The legacy of slavery is addressed in Glenn Ligon's lithographs formatted to look like 19th - century wanted posters for runaway slaves, with Mr. Ligon in the role of the fugitive.

The tree, which has the graves of lynched victims around the base, features in the film, during a scene where two runaway slaves are hanged.

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.

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

Shortly after this, White became interested in wanted posters for runaway slaves in the United States, and with a fellowship from Tamarind in 1970, White worked extensively on his Wanted Poster series.

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.

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.

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 designed to capture runaway slaves.

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.

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

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.

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.

I can understand why, since Levi and Catherine Coffin were instrumental in helping over 2,000 runaway slaves, or freedom seekers as they were called, escape to Canada over a twenty - year period.

His journey takes him deep into the jungle, from the hideouts of runaway slaves to penal colonies, outlandish forts, remote Amerindian villages, a «Little Paris» and a space port.

The Fila Brasileiro is a large breed of dog developed in Brazil to guard livestock, protect the homestead, and chase down runaway slaves.

It revels in tracking and has been used to hunt animals, criminals, runaway slaves, and lost children.

The breed was introduced in Cuba to capture runaway slaves (cimarrones).

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.

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.).

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.

Victor is a bounty hunter tasked with finding runaway slaves, which puts him in an understandably awkward (if that understatement will do here) position: he uses his race to ingratiate himself into the lives of other African - Americans whom he will eventually betray.

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.

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.

WHAT: After witnessing his young nephew killed while fighting on the front line of the Civil War, army medic Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and runaway slaves in a rebellion against the local Confederate Army.

It looks at first that the runaway slaves will take more part in the story (and they should have), but it's unfortunate to say that they serve the story to mostly prop up McConaughey's character.

It's too late to fix the Free State of Jones, director - writer Gary Ross» well - meaning historical drama about the curious case of Newton Knight, an army deserter who inspired a mixed race coalition of Mississippi farmers and runaway slaves to revolt against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

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.

It's back on his farm where he meets and befriends Rachel (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), a slave woman who has been secretly learning to read and who will introduce him to an underground society of runaway slaves and a handful of other disenchanted southerners.

The pursuit of wild hogs has terminated with the rewards for runaway slaves; and in this age of railways and steam navigation, the flitches of American bacon in the provision shops have driven out of the market the jerked hog of the Maroon.

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

But another part of me worries that a religious culture that asks its followers to silence their conscience is just the kind of religious culture that produces $ 200 rewards for runaway slaves.

Also, I may disagree that the Israelites were runaway slaves.

Similarly, while the mainstream Enlightenment (which privileged order, good behaviour and obedience) frequently sought harsh remedies for beggars, runaway slaves and other undesirables, Catholic religious houses could provide beacons of mercy and refuge, and moralists such as St Alphonsus Ligori sought to develop a theology which did real justice to the complexities of human life.

«You stopped the knife from plunging into Isaac, and the Pharaoh's armies from slaughtering the runaway slaves, but you couldn't save Jerusalem?»

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

Were a person to have violated a court order directing the return of a runaway slave when Dred Scott was the law, would a genuinely held belief that a slave was a human person and not an article of property be a matter the Court could not consider in deciding whether that person was guilty of a criminal contempt charge?

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.

And even Paul in his letter to the salve owner Philemon tells Philemon to treat his runaway slave as «a brother in Christ,» and to recieve him and have grace and mercy upon him.

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....

When Huck risks jail and damnation to befriend a runaway slave, Jesus smiles.

Huckleberry Finn once found himself quite without his intention, helping a runaway slave to escape.

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.

This is the reference they use to support their premise: «Bible narrative: Paul returned a runaway slave to his master Philemon (Philemon)».

St. Paul sends the runaway slave back to Philemon «no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a dearest brother.»

Paul writes to Philemon because a runaway slave of his called Onesimus has been converted by Paul in prison.

A runaway slave of Philemon had come to Rome, been converted and now Paul sends him back with this delightfully precious personal note, asking that Philemon receive him not as a slave but as a brother in Christ, and forgive him.