Sentences with phrase «slave owners became»

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.

Not exact matches

An «indentured servant» or «volunteer» is bound to a term of service whereas a chattel slave became the owner's «possession... for ever.»

Standing in the place of the slave owner's wife, the mammy became the «premier house servant who, though given considerable authority by her owners and admired for her expertise in domestic matters, remained captive.

If we look at verses 26 - 27, which may well have been at one time connected with verses 20 - 21, we will understand that in Israel the first principle became and remained dominant: if the slave's owner should inflict the loss of an eye or even a tooth upon the slave, the slave must be given his freedom in compensation!

Most business owners never get clear about this number and end up becoming slaves to their business, only to realize they aren't getting paid enough to maintain the life they desire.

Six months later (as we enter the middle third of the movie), after the duo have become bounty hunting partners, the pair finally set off in search of their main goal — rescuing Djagno's wife Broomhilda, a slaved played by Kerry Washington who has been sold to a nasty Mandingo baron and plantation owner Calvin Candie (played with delicious relish by Leonardo DiCaprio).

It's a pretty safe bet to assume that only Quentin Tarantino could convince a studio to release a film set in the slave - owning South that follows a freed slave who, under the guidance of a German bounty hunter, becomes a deadly assassin hellbent on rescuing his wife from an evil plantation owner.

Yet these moments are more than balanced by scenes of genuine originality, horror and truth, as when we see images of naked slaves on display in a genteel parlor, or, most unforgettably, become witnesses to the nighttime entertainments of the mad slave owner (Fassbender), who insists that his slaves dance for him.

In that film, Caesar was raised by a circus owner (Ricardo Montalban) and became the Che Guevara / Malcom X / Black Panther-esque leader of apes who were turned into slaves by humans.

As an adult, he became a preacher, used by his owner (Armie Hammer) to speak calming words to unruly slaves.

Northup is kidnapped, taken away from his family, and becomes the property of a couple different slave owners.

Played with wide - eyed determination and desperation by an excellent Chiwetel Ejiofor, Solomon is a free man who is tricked by a couple of young shysters into losing his free papers and becoming a slave, where he remains for more than a decade under the mastery of two different plantation owners — the benevolent William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) and emasculated, tyrannical Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender).

Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near - death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors» reports of recent immigrants and refugees.

For anyone not familiar with the tiny tyrant, Colonel Meow became an Internet sensation when his owner, Anne Marie Avey (aka «Slave Beast»), posted pictures of his scowling face to Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram.

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