Sentences with phrase «slave pen»

You have Arnie inside his slave pen / cage having sex with a woman while spectators look on.

A chance meeting with a pair of seemingly upstanding white men who offer him the chance of employment leads to a trip to Washington, D.C., which ends with Northup being drugged and awakening chained in a slave pen, with no one to appeal to and savage beatings assured every time he insists he is not a runaway.

Educated, married and living in New York, Northup was lured by a job offer in Washington only to be kidnapped and put in a slave pen, leading to years of enslavement under various owners.

Based on the 1853 autobiography of Solomon Northrup, 12 Years a Slave stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as the married and educated free black man living in New York who was kidnapped by two men and put into a slave pen where he lived twelve years under forced slavery.

They offered him a generous but fair amount of money to work for their circus, and then offered to put him up in a hotel in Washington D.C.. Upon arriving he was drugged, bound, and moved to a slave pen in the city.

In one of The Armory Show's few overtly political moments, a powerful and timely painting by Titus Kaphar hangs on the booth's outer wall; the work (The Cost of Removal, 2017) was inspired by President Trump's hanging of a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office and sees Jackson on a horse with the names of his slaves penned on shreds of canvas tacked on by rusted nails.