Sentences with phrase «runaway slaves from»

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.

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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.

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

It is significant to note that the first baptism from among the Pulayas of Central Travancore and from among the «runaway» slaves in Mundakayam were the mantravadis.38 In places like Mepra, Punnapra and Vembala near Alleppey where the conversion movement was particularly strong, CMS missionaries acknowledged the leadership of the Pulaya priests.39

As a result of CMS missionary interest in «runaway» slaves, and the CMS missionaries» continued pressure on the State government, Pulayas were protected from further violence.

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

Slaves who escaped the plantations came to be known as «Maroons» (the term for a runaway slave in the West Indies and Americas, from the Spanish word cimarrón, meaning wild).

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.).

From the New York Times - bestselling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page - turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 collRunaway series from 1993 that juxtaposes images of runaway slaves with descriptions of Ligon written by his friends and collrunaway slaves with descriptions of Ligon written by his friends and colleagues.

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.