Sentences with phrase «slave traders in»

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

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.

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

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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.

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

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

Tribal leaders also sold slaves to European traders who then transported and sold those slaves to Americans in the deep south USA, most of whom claimed to be Christians just as today.

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.

Arab traders had virtual control of the region — especially the coast — for a thousand years, while trading in spices and slaves.

Peppers may have been brought into North America by coastal traders or slaves born in the West Indies, where European explorers described the use of hot peppers to enliven the native dishes.

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

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 network of those involved in slave trade included men who participated in raids, slave traders and customers representing the leading class of society.

It shows likely genetic impacts of historical events including European colonialism, the Mongol Empire, the Arab slave trade and European traders near the Silk Road mixing with people in China.

He starred in the episode named «Lolani», and those who are deeply knowledgeable about Star Trek canon might think he is a slave trader from Orion.

100 years earlier in 1748, John Newton the Captain of a slave trader sails from Africa with a cargo of slaves, bound for America.

Tarantino starring as a miner / slave trader with an Australian accent stuck in some forced scene mugging it up for the cameras.

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

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.

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

The slave trade is illegal in many parts of the world — but some slave traders pay no attention to the laws.

Fischer: During my second year of teaching, in the mid-1970s, I recall simulating the African slave trade by having students rotating on a daily basis for about a week various roles associated with that topic — tribal chief, slave trader, colonial buyer, and slave.

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.

Zilpah was Laban's daughter by a slave named Mer - Nefat, who had been purchased from an Egyptian trader in the days when Laban still had means.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi This novel spans three continents recounting the origin of the slave trade on the Gold Coast of Africa to the traders in England and the plantations in America and its effects on one family across multiple generations.

Her savvy translator is Cecilia, a teenage slave who remembers being captured in the Congo when she was eight years old and sold to a trader by her own father.

Also among the highlights are St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral; Christ Church Anglican Cathedral commemorating the work of David Livingston in abolishing the slave trade and built on the site of the last slave market; and the residence of the slave trader Tippu Tip.

Instead, during a tour of Cape Coast Castle, one of about 30 slave castles built in Ghana by European traders, «Homegoing» was born.

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.

The largest gap, chronologically if not thematically, is between the former slave traders» building at 1315 Duke St. in 1861 and 2017.