Sentences with phrase «slave owners with»

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.

In order for his appeal to be successful Douglass knew he would have to reconcile a certain pious regard for the well - being of slave owners with supporting the slaves» struggle for liberation.

Not exact matches

Trump grouped former presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who fought to create the United States, together as «slave owners,» with southern leaders Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson.

Her slave owner is allowed to marry her and if he does marry her he must sleep with her.

Tell that to the elderly female slave who has an arm broken with a rod and her owner gets NO PUNISHMENT.

Pagels grants that many Christians were themselves slave owners, yet says others went among the Roman Empire's wretched outcasts with the message of radical equality — that class, education and gender «made no difference.»

«When a slaveowner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished., But if the slave survives a day or two, there is no punishment; for the slave is the owner's property.

Second, in 1755, a group of slaves had conspired and killed their owner, with servants Mark and Phillis executed for his murder.

Even without that we know what a lot of Roman men did with their younger male slaves and its obvious a slave owner isn't going to be so distraught in saving a piece of property he could easily replace unless he was in love.

His attempts to justify slavery are nonsensical and take the typical dishonest approach of equating slavery with modern day employment or indentured servitude (glossing over verses that permit «owners» to beat their slaves so long as they do not die immediately).

But for the most part, the author admits the evils embedded in Greek civilization, among which one can easily name the constricted life of most women, the demagoguery of so many politicians, and worst of all the degradation of the slave's life (he quotes the medical writer Galen who once saw an owner poke his slave's eye out with a reed pen).

Paul's little note to Philemon, for example, hardly more than a page long and concerned largely with an owner's relations with a slave, refers to Jesus as many as ten times.

Here, a slave which did not follow his owner's will would be be... aten with many lashes of a whip.

Ironic how people get worked up when the Los Angeles Clipper's owner doesn't want his girlfriend to associate with black people, but don't have a problem discriminating against anyone who is not Christian, or don't care that the founding fathers were some of the most racist people on Earth and actually owned slaves.

Our vision of freedom is primarily socio - political, with the greatest threat to human flourishing being the other, whether the Nazi, the slave - owner, or the autocrat.

The moment I realized I couldn't win a «proof text» war with a slave - owner was the moment I realized that in discussions like these, we can't rely on a few Bible verses pulled from their context — not when lives are at stake.

Should we tear down the University of Virginia because it was founded with the money of slave owners?

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.

In 1833 through pressure from Evangelicals, both Nonconformist and Anglican, an act of Parliament abolished slavery in the British Empire, with monetary compensation to the slave - owners.

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!

An example — owners of slaves who claimed to be Christian and attended church with their fellow slave owners, and pretended to worship the real Jesus.

I hear your comparison with white slave owners and black slaves with your expectation that those in power would say that white people make better slave owners and black people make better slaves.

After a long narrative about salary negotiations in which the book had made me look like some sort of southern plantation owner dealing with one of his slaves, he wrote: «There is no law that says you have to like your boss...»

After the slave owner Proximo tells Russell Crowe's gladiator that to achieve his goal he must not just slaughter the opposition but do it with style to «win the crowd» Maximus replies: «I will give them something they've never seen before».

Take this all with a grain of salt though because there were people like Jefferson who was from the south, an aristocratic slave owner but wanted no army, more state power, and was initially hesitant to abandon the monarchy.

To compel a business owner to serve someone with whom the business owner has not consensually entered into any relationship is to make the business owner a slave of the person in question.

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).

There are encounters with a comical predecessor of the KKK (led by a terrifically over the top Don Johnson), a small town sheriff who is not what he seems and, of course, the very proper southern gentleman / Mandingo fighting aficionado and plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio)-- and his right hand plantation man, house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson, stealing every scene he's in in a scary, mean, dangerously funny role).

Synopsis: With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Watching Django and Schultz kill racist slave owners is fun and the more over-the-top Tarantino is with the violence, the better.

With Nazi's and slave - owners already off the list, what's next?

While revenge narratives are often highly problematic in the way they represent certain aspects of society as deserving a violent death, Tarantino creates revenge narratives against characters that nobody in their right mind would sympathise with — Nazis in Inglourious Basterds and now sadistic slave owners in Django Unchained.

With the help of his mentor, a slave - turned - bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

«Django Unchained» follows Jamie Foxx as Django, a freed American slave who teams with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to save his wife from Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), an evil plantation owner.

Platt's first master, William Ford (the ever - present Benedict Cumberbatch), is relatively enlightened by slave owner standards, but even he can only do so much when Platt gets into a bitter dispute with a thoroughly racist overseer (an adept Paul Dano).

Inside Sakaar's HQ (look, Beta Ray Bill and Man - Thing Easter Eggs), Jeff Goldblum does all things Jeff Goldblum for wacky slave owner, the Celestial Grandmaster, who is introduced to Thor through a VR welcome video played with «Pure Imagination.»

Smith was originally rumored to be considering playing the character of Django, a slave who embarks with Schultz on a mission to free Django's wife, who is working as a slave in the house of sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

When they do get to the topic of the movie, he has to deal with the barely concealed racism of questions about how many white people are killed in this movie about a uprising against slave owners (His response, pointing out that the anger about the depiction of killing in a movie is misguided compared to real - world killing, is spot - on).

«Django Unchained «Synopsis: A freed slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) teams up with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to track down his wife (Kerry Washington) and liberate her from her plantation owners led by the sadistic Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

It may seem strange that Tarantino manages to get away with telling such potentially provocative stories, but the fact of the matter is that slave owners and Nazis are easy targets for a revenge movie — the audience will have a hatred of them before the film has even started, so the filmmaker's job of encouraging us to revel in their killing is that much easier.

Northup's new owner, Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender) is drunk, debauched, and depraved; the outwardly courteous mistress of the plantation (Sarah Paulson) is, if anything, worse still, consumed with jealousy for a slave, Patsey (newcomer Lupita Nyong» o), with whom her husband is obsessed.

The film stars Jamie Foxx as Django, an escaped slave who goes to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) by teaming up with bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz).

Plot: Django a former slave sets out with his companion / tutor / bounty hunter to rescue his wife from an twisted Mississippi land owner.

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).

First, this caveat: I've still not seen three films said to be strong contenders, so it's too early to list these here: «Les Miserables,» directed by Tom Hooper, who made «The King's Speech;» Kathryn Bigelow's «Zero Dark Thirty,» about the killing of Bin Laden, and Quentin Tarantino's «Django Unchained,» with Jamie Foxx as an escaped slave and Leonardo DiCaprio as a plantation owner.

My only quibble with President Obama's picks here is with his predecessor Washington, a wealthy plantation owner who never emancipated his 300 + slaves at Mount Vernon, not even upon his death.

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

The author of Ragtime, City of God, and The Book of Daniel has given us a magisterial work with an enormous cast of unforgettable characters — white and black, men, women, and children, unionists and rebels, generals and privates, freed slaves and slave owners.

When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion.