Sentences with phrase «slave owners»

Still other children have endured torture at the hands of slave owners, or have witnessed torture at the hands of enemies.

The symbolism was poignant: This great - granddaughter of slaves was addressing a denomination once led by slave owners.

Walking around with pictures of dead colonial slave owners doesn't really light my fire.

He even told slave owners that they had to be good to their slaves.

Given their military backgrounds, organizing a successful rebellion and escape was well within their aptitude, and became a persistent problem for American slave owners.

My ancestors were not slave owners, but they fought a war to protect their neighbors who were.

One similarity most slave owners had was that they were rich.

If you were active in opposing things like gay rights people a hundred years from now will remember you at least as well as we remember slave owners these days.

The average slave owner of that day... had no more regard for his slave than for an animal.

You're saying that having slaves is more important because the rich slave owners will suffer financially without them.

The rebels killed 51 people (mostly slave owners and their families).

Why do you think slave owners treated slaves so badly, looked down on them and considered them nothing more than property but yet they were worthy enough to sleep with?

I suspect you will come with up with a number greater than zero, but I also suspect the actual number is much, much less than the number of slave owners.

«The Birth of a Nation» Lowdown: Nate Parker's directs and stars in this true story about a former slave that sparks a rebellion against white slave owners in Virginia in 1831.

He led the most famous slave rebellion against the white slave owners in 1831.

The group, armed with knives, axes and whatever they can find, goes on a killing spree, using the Bible as justification, just as slave owners used the Bible to show that slavery has always existed

«One day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

It's a great triumph when an actor is a standout in a cast full of standouts, and Sarah Paulson (TV's «American Horror Story») stands out as Mistress Epps, the exceptionally cruel yet tormented wife of brutal slave owner Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender).

After sweeping the grand jury and audience awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Nate Parker's directorial debut, in which he plays slave Nat Turner who orchestrates an uprising against slave owners in Virginia, is receiving a lot of award - season heat.

I know atheists that descended from slave owners, too.

Personally, I think that the day will come when the religious Right will be regarded like slave owners and those who burned witches.

God's answer to slave owners taking a rod and beating their elderly female slaves (even breaking their bones as long as they didn't die «in a day or so») was there was to be NO VENGEANCE taken on them.

Chiwetel Ejiofor, who embodies the perfect blend of strength and forced passivity as Solomon Northup, was already attached, as were Michael Fassbender as sadistic slave owner Edwin Epps and Brad Pitt as abolitionist Bass.

Having read the source material, it was obvious that brutal slave owner Edwin Epps would be a meaty role.

Solomon is soon re-named Platt and his story of twelve years of slavery and bondage under many slave owners is told as he thinks of ways to regain his freedom.

After that it's a clash of wills and a study in resilience, with the filmmakers careful to balance the sadistic slave owners with more sympathetic ones.

Older and with a much sounder footing than the Christian training manual for slave owners.

He noted that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were also slave owners and added: «I wonder, is it George Washington next week?

Consequently, one of the greatest problems of the early church was in getting Christian slave owners and Christian slaves to treat each other as spiritual equals.

For instance, there's a scene where Professor Tolson (Denzel Washington) attempts instill some self respect in his pupils by quoting from Willie Lynch's 1712 speech supposedly delivered to fellow slave owners about how to mold and control the minds of their slaves.

Inglourious Basterds made a strong statement against the Nazi's, while this latest goes hard after slave owners.

The trail leads to the immense plantation Candyland, owned by the brutal and racist slave owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

The central cast are all superb: Leonardo DiCaprio is genuinely creepy as brutal slave owner Calvin Candie, Samuel L Jackson gives the performance of his career thus far as his servant Stephen (a deeply unsettling Uncle Tom figure), while Christoph Waltz as kindly bounty hunter Dr King Schultz and Jamie Foxx as the eponymous hero (a slave Schultz frees to become his henchman) make one of modern cinema's great double acts.

Jones» poignant and beautiful exploration of the life of a black slave owner won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Critics Circle award.

He's well supported by Michael Fassbender's and Benedict Cumberbatch's very different slave owners, the heartbreaking Lupita Nyong» o as a fellow slave, and Brad Pitt in a key cameo.

Fans of Cumberbatch got another chance to spot their hero, who plays a sympathetic slave owner in the film.

Artful and intimate (Nelson's own father briefly overlapped Carver at Tuskegee), the book introduced me to the botanist's late - in - life friendship with a young descendant of white slave owners named Jim Hardwick.

Of course, many slaves were also killed and the fallout was that slave owners became more wary of the possible actions of slaves... while it also provided a glimmer of hope, and generational stories, for those who remained enslaved.

... Because he was a major slave owner,» Trump said.

Did you know that the first registered slave owner in the United States was a black man by the name of Anthony Johnson?

And if so, will National Cathedral's historical purging continue, perhaps to remove the body of Wilson, whose administration re-segregated the federal workforce, or the statues and windows that honor slave owners like Washington, Jefferson and Madison?

However Christian bashing and discrimination — ESPECIALLY Catholic bashing in modern society is regrettably as alive and well as a bigotted southern plantation slave owner in the 1840s.

Now contrast that to a benevolent slave owner who provides all the necessities of life to a slave.

If slavery is in force, in the sense that slave owners adhere to its norms and the political community enforces them, then slaves can not choose in a manner that expresses dissent from the putative validity of the practice.

Just like all those poor oppressed slave owners and proponents of segregation.