Sentences with phrase «slave traders»

The Atlantic slave trade involved the forced transportation by slave traders of enslaved Africans, mainly from Africa to the Americas between the 16th to the 19th centuries.

He is ordered to be killed but manages to escape, ending up in the hands of slave trader Proximo (Oliver Reed), who pits him into the Roman Colosseum as a gladiator.

A boy captured by slave traders in eighteenth - century Africa is brought to the Americas.

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

Especially disturbing is the casual but complete dehumanization he finds being a slave means, with slave trader Freeman (an excellent Paul Giamatti) offering him and others for sale with a casual «what catches your fancy, inspect at your leisure.»

Mundaca was once a fearsome pirate and nefarious slave trader who settled on Isla Mujeres after extensive struggles against the British Navy.

The island is also said to have been a refuge for slave trader and pirate, Fermin Mundaca.

The reported slave auctions have raised questions about whether European Union migration agreements meant to curb Mediterranean crossings are instead turning human traffickers into slave traders as increasing numbers of migrants find themselves stuck in Libya, penniless, desperate and vulnerable.

The wounded Maximus collapses and is captured by a passing slave trader, who sells him and a black man named Juba (Djimon Hounsou) to Proximo (Oliver Reed, unfortunately sharing no screen time with fellow hell - raiser Harris) who trains both men as gladiators.

March 28, 2018 • He's known as «one of the most virtuous and wise sons» of Bristol, but the philanthropist Edward Colston made his fortune as a 17th century slave trader.

Running twenty - six episodes, the first thirteen cover the creation story and a couple of battles with merman Namor, Dr. Doom, and, after the arrival of special guest hero Silver Surfer, intergalactic slave trader Galactus.

Ejiofor has been roundly praised for his exceptonal acting talents, as have the rest of the cast, who include Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alfre Woodard and Michael Fassbender, whose role as the heartless slave trader Edwin Epps has also been widely applauded for his unflinching brutality and realism.

I play a guy who was one of the wealthiest slave traders in America, at the time.

Most interestingly is how well Django takes on the training Schultz gives him, fiercely adopting the role of a despised black slave trader in order to create a convincing ruse.

One imagines a Tarantino film about slave traders and bounty hunters not culminating in copious bloodshed would provoke some outrage.

Our firm is committed to seeing that modern day slave traders or «human traffickers» are not only brought to justice, but they compensate the people that they have harmed.

Until the rise of a market and bourgeois ideology, until those devout Quaker traders — even slave traders — around 1780, it had occurred to no one that slavery was anything but God's plan.

He was jailed when a Southern slave trader brought a libel suit against him in Baltimore.

In fact, the African slave traders that sold Africans to the white Europeans were the African Muslims.

The people of this island near Cancún in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula are peaceful descendants of fisherman and, some would say, pirates, as Isla Mujeres was once the home of the infamous pirate and slave trader Mundaca.

Colonialists depicted indigenous tribes as monsters; slave traders depicted blacks as apes, in Rwanda, the Hutu depicted the Tutsi as cockroaches.

Django Unchained (2012) Tarantino gave DiCaprio his nastiest role yet: the sadistic slave trader Calvin Candie in Django Unchained.

This time, with Django Unchained, he lines up slave traders so a black man can blow their fool heads off.

With his heavy Bronx accent, Tony Curtis is more earnest than accurate as Antoninus, «duh singah of sawngs,» but the other cast members are excellent, particularly Charles Laughton as the shrewd Roman council member Gracchus, Laurence Olivier (exuding white - collar wickedness) as Roman leader Crassus and scene - stealing Peter Ustinov as the droll slave trader Batiatus.

A light nudge, I'm sure), played by the incredible Christoph Waltz, inquires upon two traveling slave traders looking for a specific purchase they may have made recently that goes by the name of Django (Jamie Foxx).

Considering its notoriously troubled history — the $ 175 million project, directed by first - timer Carl Rinsch, went into production almost three years ago — some blatant re-cutting is expected; the Dejima episode, where Ôishi goes to rescue Kai from Dutch slave traders, feels like a severely shortened version of a longer sequence.

We see Paul Giamatti as an emotionless, all - business slave trader.

The dialogue of the Washington, D.C., slave traders sounds as if it were written for «Lord of the Rings.»

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

Excerpts from Slave Narratives This wonderful resource includes more than 40 narratives including a European slave trader describing a shipboard revolt by enslaved Africans (1700); a doctor describing conditions on an English slaver (1788); Venture Smith relating the story of his kidnapping at age six (1798); a woman learning that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869); and a slave describing West African religious beliefs and practices (1789).

So it is that just as the young and stunning Effia Otcher from the Fanteland region is promised in marriage to a white slave trader James Collins, a match that ensures the consolidation of her family's socioeconomic status, her half - sister Esi, belonging to another tribe, is swept up in the country's booming slave trade.

Prominent slave trader and arena master, Marwan (bad guy from Blackguards), ends up marrying her as a sign of his status.

So, in some ways, it seemed as though his sculpture may have been placed intentionally at a historic crossroads, at the edge of the wealthy Quarter, across the street from where slave traders once showed off their human wares and not far from Esplanade Ridge, once a stronghold for the city's large population of free people of color.

Hank talked about the Middle Passage, when slave traders kidnapped millions of people of diverse cultures, languages and identities, packed them tightly into ships, sent them halfway around the world and put them in the same category as a people.

They included other Europeans who sought similar adventures and the porters and guides who bore the weight of their supplies as well as slaves freed from Arab slave traders.

Wounded, the general escapes but is then captured by slave traders, sold into bondage, and marked for certain death under the ownership of Proximo (Oliver Reed), a cynical supplier of gladiators for all occasions.

This is evident in every Baptist's favorite hymn, «Amazing Grace,» written by the Anglican Calvinist and former slave trader, John Newton.

The Bible doesn't give an endorsement of slave traders but the opposite (1 Timothy 1:10).

The defendants, claims Fagan's suit, «conspired with slave traders, with each other and other entities and institutions... to commit and / or knowingly facilitate crimes against humanity, and to further illicitly profit from slave labor.»

It's a fantasy story of Hekat, who is no more than an unwanted mouth to feed, worth only a few coins from a passing slave trader.

The island, which sits about eight miles off the Yucatan peninsula, is home to interesting sites, including Hacienda Mundaca, the ruined mansion of a 19th - century slave trader and some peaceful, sea - turtle frequented white - sand beaches.

Creature King / The Treemen / The Lizard Slavers (21:06) Jan, Jace, and Blip get pulled onto a planet where they face a giant ape, giant bats, and the evil genius controlling both; Dino Boy is endangered when Treemen take him prisoner; flying off - course, Jan and Jace get captured by reptilian intergalactic slave traders.

Paul Giamatti gives a startling performance as a heartless slave trader.

Giamatti talked about how wild it was to be a part of such a historically terrifying story, that he describes as «a horror movie, in itself,» and said that he played one of the wealthiest slave traders in America, at that time, how difficult it was to do some of what his characters does to these people, and how amazing it was to work with the director, who wanted to create a world it which these actions were completely normal.

9We also know that lawa is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers — and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

He was a murderer, rapist and slave trader himself.

The word also appears in 1 Timothy 1:10 after «sexually immoral» and before «slave traders.»

That is because your mohammad was a se - xual per - vert, thief, racist, slave trader, kidnapper, mass murderer, pedophile, r #apist and terrorist himself!!

And as we learn about the history of the Church, we can learn specifically about the lives of Church fathers, such as Charles Wesley (author of hundreds of hymns), Martin Luther (ringleader of the Reformation), John Newton (a slave trader before his conversion to Christ who penned the world's most famous hymn, «Amazing Grace») and many others.