Sentences with phrase «slave ship»

Passing paintings of slave ships, boy scouts and girl scouts, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, and anonymous African American artists, he discussed his approach to representation, the ways in which he elevates scenes of everyday life, and how in charting American history, he avoids sensational images by pursuing more thoughtful depictions of his subjects.

The Garinagu are descendants of Carib Indians (South American natives who settled on the Caribbean island of St Vincent) and West Africans who were said to have escaped from Spanish slave ships in 1635 and made the island their home.

According to Williamson, the work was inspired by specific voyages that were taken by slave ships from the west coast of Africa to the Americas in the 19th century.

A strange new painting, Le Rodeur: The Lock (2016), draws on the story of a 19th - century slave ship in which all bar one of the slaves went blind, resulting in many being thrown overboard.

The designs, co-created by Garner and Donte Neal, will commemorate the bravery and resilience of Black heroes and revolutionary icons — from the enslaved Africans who led slave ship revolts aboard the Brig Creole, the Hermosa, the Comet, and the Enterprise to The Black Panthers, abolitionist leaders, and Black Americans subjected to enslavement, medical torture, and racial oppression.

The more factual aspects of «Belle,» directed by Amma Asante and photographed in beautiful, portrait - worthy light by Ben Smithard, focus on Lord Mansfield's consideration of the Zong massacre case, in which 142 African slaves were drowned — murdered — by the British slave ship Zong.

She has created an immersive environment with a newly - conceived soundscape to accompany her animation Typhoon coming on (2018), which features a digitally manipulated image of J.M.W. Turner's 1840 painting Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On).

He found his true calling after becoming an Evangelical Christian when he came under the influence of abolitionists like John Newton (Albert Finney), the remorseful, former slave ship captain who had written the hymn Amazing Grace following a dramatic religious conversion.

And one of the first slave ships to ferry human beings as cargo to the so - called «New World» was named «Jesus.»

The show's title is taken from J. M.W. Turner's painting of the British slave ship Zong, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon Coming On (1840).

According to popular lore, Nigerian slaves ended up in St. Vincent after the wreck of a Spanish slave ship.

, will commemorate the bravery and resilience of Black heroes and revolutionary icons — from the enslaved Africans who led slave ship revolts aboard the Brig Creole, the Hermosa, the Comet, and the Enterprise to The Black Panthers, abolitionist leaders, and Black Americans subjected to enslavement, medical torture, and racial oppression

Don Pedro remarks that the British are hypocrites because they block slave ships coming into Cuba on the one hand but purchase Cuban sugar and provide loans to the plantation owners on the other.

The same waters that have fed commerce also brought slave ships from Africa.

«Business journal commentators have compared said business practices to a 21st Century galley slave ship with pirates banging the drum to keep up the fast pace and to fill the pockets of their stockholders with treasure,» it states.

Slavery was not exclusive to the American colonies and it wasn't invented here; it was brought here initially by European slave ships from regions where it was (and remains) a common practice and it remained legal in many of the European colonies long after the importation of slaves was prohibited by the US Constitution.

Explain to them about how Jews held a Monopoly on the Trans Atlantic Slave ships, they used Rum to get West Africans addicted to it so they would sell their Children.

Something that valuable was bound to attract attention, and in1561, John Hawkins, an English privateer, hijacked a Portuguese slave ship and traded 300 slaves at Hispaniola for ginger, pearls, and sugar.

Biologists now understand that yellow fever arose in tropical African monkeys, which, through the mosquito vector, infected (and continue to infect) tropical African people, some of whom unintentionally carried yellow fever with them on slave ships several hundred years ago to South America.

Real Pirates St. Louis Science Center In 1717 a vicious storm off the Cape Cod coast wrecked the Whydah, an English slave ship commandeered by pirates.

An example is the Garifuna people of Central and South America, a population that originated in the late 1600s when an African slave ship foundered off the coast of Venezuela.

As the album continues to pulverize your senses you come across tracks such as «Nothing Left Alive» which features some stellar double bass technique courtesy of Jizmak (Brad Roberts) before making way for tracks such as «Torture» and «I, Bonesnapper» which gives GWAR's always entertaining sidekick Bonesnapper a chance to strut his stuff and tell stories of his days on the Scum Dog slave ships.

The series was a spin - off of the theatrical film with James Caan and Mandy Patinkin, with Gary Graham in the Caan role as a rough and tumble human cop and Eric Pierpoint in Patinkin's part as his humorless but dedicated «newcomer» partner, one of hundreds of thousands of Tenctonese survivors of an interstellar slave ship that crashed on Earth five years before.

This church was built in 1840 by a community of Africans who had been liberated from illegal slave ships.

Mermaid Guest House's name is derived from the Dutch slave ship Meermin which suffered from a mutiny by its slave passengers and eventually ran aground off the coast of Struisbaai in 1766.

The artist literally includes the word «Atlantic» in the pool's water and, in turn, the toy tugboat that appears nearby takes on the symbolism of an ocean - faring slave ship.

Her installation is called Typhoon Coming On, and is an uneasy 21st - century remake of Turner's 1840 masterpiece, often known simply as Slave Ship, but called by him Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On.

In 2013, Sachs» Barbie Slave Ship installation was featured in the 12th Lyon Biennale.

Depicting a procession of Africans chained and walking toward a pair of distant slave ships, the painting is a landmark acquisition among thousands of works recently announced by the National Gallery.

That film is being screened outdoors on the museum grounds in a shack put together by Mr. van Lieshout from packing cases, with an interior meant to suggest the rude quarters of slave ships exporting their cargo to the civilized world.

The tattoos, which commemorate slave ships, Angela Y. Davis, and other people, will here be a way for Garner to render visible medical histories that usually get erased.

The collaboration began with the discovery of a sunken slave ship, and an artists asking a philosopher: «How do we get to the post-human without technology»?

As a group, these paintings evoke the Middle Passage of slave ships between West Africa and North America, and the themes of immigration, class mobility, and aspiration central to American life.

But slavery going from Egypt is in the Holy scriptures (Deuteronomy 28:68) Israel sons and daughters were put on slave ships and sold to their enemies!

According to some sources, the Carib and Arawak Indians used pepper juice for seasoning, and after the «discovery» of chile peppers by Europeans, slave ship captains combined pepper juice with palm oil, flour, and water to make a «slabber sauce» that was served over ground beans to the slaves aboard ship.

Once Slavery came to Belize, (against the better judgment of the Settlers who had fired upon the first Slave Ships to reach the harbour) the Public Meeting had to be a little more selective in its membership.

The second part explores the idea of battle as an epic journey, referencing the first British slave ship to the Americas, and the shipping line started by Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, pointing to the complexity of relations and intricacies of identity between those stolen or sent away from Africa, and those who remained.

Cole's first works employed irons and ironing boards to create images of slave ships, African masks and brand - bearing West African warrior shields.

Every so often the projections flick to the manipulated surface of J.M.W. Turner's 1840 painting Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), the canvas grossly deformed into an oily sludge.

Students write from the point of view of slaves — those who were born into slavery in the U.S. or brought on slave ships from Africa.

The suit goes on to compare Yelp's business practices to those on a slave ship.

John Newton a captain on a slave ship, transformed by prayer and prayer alone mid ocean in the very act of transporting human cargo.

Inconvenient: «John Newton a captain on a slave ship, transformed by prayer and prayer alone mid ocean»

Pencil drawings of people like sardines on the lower deck of a slave ship.

Jesse Jackson's references to the slop jar and the slave ship in his speech to the 1988 Democratic National Convention reflects how his heritage and struggle to survive shaped his ideology and his commitment to equity, fairness and justice.

The specific focus is religious practices and Christian engagement during the «Middle Passage,» the horrific middle leg of the slave triangle when Africans were tightly packed in slave ships and shipped to the Americas.