Sentences with phrase «slave ships»

Malcolm Bailey is best known for his late 1960s polymer paintings with collaged images of slave ships and their human cargo — based on 18th century abolitionist diagrams.

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.

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.

Her solo exhibitions include Whale Oil, Slave Ships & Burning Martyrs at Priska Juschka Fine Art in New York, Imitatio Dei at the Museum of Contemporary in Chicago and Last Things Will Be First And First Things Will Be Last at the Chicago Cultural Center.

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.

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

They could be identified as colonial ships, pirate ships or slave ships.

Godfried Donkor overlays a magazine page with an entire history of blackness, from slave ships to boxing.

Through recurring motifs such as flat, featureless human bodies and slave ships, Evans investigates the legacy of colonialism addressing the themes of racial stereotyping, migration, diaspora and the transatlantic slave trade.

Best known for large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth - century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition.

They've also unearthed this contemporaneous canvas by Malcolm Bailey, which offers up delicate outlines of slave ships and a cotton plant in lieu of more typically Pop consumer goods.

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.

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.

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.

A dream - sequence reunion between Erik and his slain father (Sterling K. Brown) might count as the most affecting moment in MCU history — if not all of superhero cinema — were it not for Killmonger's final lines: «Throw me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped off the slave ships,» he says, «because they knew death was better than bondage.»

It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

You speak as if growing from the 600,000 brought over on slave ships to 40 million was some kind of utopian milestone.

When the slave ships were dropping people off they did not select anyone based on any particular characteristics.

British abolitionist William Wilberforce, when he was laboring to abolish slavery in England, led small tours of slave ships.

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.

@@@@ Sean p.OK none of your people came on a slave ships the blacks in America are Hebrew Isrealite the song kombiyah is Hebrew not African and you read Deuteronomy chapter 28:68 its talking about the transatlantic slave trade not the first physical real Egypt in north Africa look at Washington DC look at the Washington monument that is not European that's from first Egypt USA is second spiritual Egypt

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

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!

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

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.

Itâ $ ™ s as if I have been released from leg chains in the hold of an 18th century slave ship and transported to a world of such natural beauty that I canâ $ ™ t find a point to begin observing it for fear that I will miss something in another location.

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.

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.

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.

raise the black flag and loot a merchant ship loaded with gold or set sail on quest to battle a slave ship.

Synopsis: In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America.

His «The Color Purple» deals with the lives of black American females in the 1930s while «Amistad» takes on a failed mutiny on board a slave ship in 1839.

A flashback in which Cinque describes his experiences on the slave ship gives us imagery disturbing and powerful enough to make us weep or close our eyes in shame.

- «12 Years a Slave»'s Chiwetel Elijofor had his first feature role in Steven Spielberg's «Amistad», the story about a slave ship revolt and the trial of the once free man who led it; a film which also co-starred his biggest challenger for Best Actor, Matthew McConaughey.

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.

The war between master and slave is fully convincing given the impressive talents of much employed Michael Fassbender and of Chiwetel Ejiofor, the latter demonstrating his charisma as well in Steven Spielberg's «Amistad,» about a mutiny on a slave ship in 1839.

Mr. Nancy (Orlando Jones), visits African prisoners trapped in a 17th - century slave ship and incites a fiery revolt by revealing to them the future of the black race in America.

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.

Adding to this is her great uncle Lord Mansfield's position as the most powerful judge in the land, who is set to rule on a case involving a slave ship that could affect England's slave trade as a whole.

He also notes that there's a neighborhood known as Slave Town, which is where Africans brought by a slave ship settled in 1859, well after the trade was supposedly illegal.

The drum originated from West Africa and is presumed to have been taken to America on a slave ship in the early AD 1700s.

There a Portuguese slave trader purchased about 500 of the Africans and illegally transported them on the slave ship Tecora to Havana, Cuba.

They can read about slaves chained on a slave ship, but when it's their character that they're writing about, they gain historical empathy.»

Yes she entertained dreams of being a missionary, but those dreams are built on self - aggrandizing fantasies: images of her being carried on a «magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings» (a marked contrast to the slave ship that transported Ajarry to her fate); her as a courageous and heroic savior received by grateful and adoring natives «lifting her to the sky, praising her name: Ethel, Ethel» (I thought missionaries served to praise God, not Saint Ethel).

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.

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

You play as Monkey, a prisoner that has escaped a slave ship, and had the misfortune of stumbling across Trip, another prisoner.