Sentences with phrase «skinned slave women»

While naturally dark - skinned slave women were left to work the fields, their children would receive preferential treatment, being brought into plantation homes to serve as house slaves.

Not exact matches

To make it slightly more manageable, however, we've excluded the following films because we've already seen them very recently in either Venice or Telluride (titles are linked to reviews): Jason Reitman's «Labor Day,» Jonathan Glazer's «Under The Skin,» starring Scarlett Johansson; Alfonso Cuaron's «Gravity»; the Michael Fassbender - starring «12 Years A Slave»; Kelly Reichardt's «Night Moves»; Ralph Fiennes» «The Invisible Woman ``; Ti West's «The Sacrament ``; David Gordon Green's «Joe» starring Nicolas Cage, John Curran «s «Tracks, «and Hayao Miyazaki «s alleged last film, «The Wind Rises.»

As slave masters fathered children on slave women, lighter skinned offspring were produced and treated more favorably.

Here, the body of the black woman, who is coded as colonial subject both by her skin and her garments, stands as testament to the empire's reliance on the economic ties formed by the slave trade and colonial rule.