Sentences with phrase «runaway slaves used»

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.

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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.

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

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.

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.).

Before the slaves were freed, runaways trying to get to Canada via the Underground Railroad used to stop in Westbury.

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

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.

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