Sentences with phrase «slavery in»

12 Years A Slave is based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man in the North, and a skilled carpenter and fiddler, who was lured to Washington, D.C. by a pair of circus promoters in 1841, then kidnapped and sold into slavery in New Orleans.

Based on a true story, Amazing Grace follows the life of William Wilberforce (played by Ioan Gruffudd), a Member of Parliament in 18th Century England who attempted to end slavery in Britain.

Hey all, we had an excellent chat with the stars of Belle, the Georgian - era biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate child of a British Lord and an African slave, who was raised into nobility and whose influence helped end slavery in the UK.

While it's easy to compare this film to 12 Years a Slave, considering the brutally honest representation of slavery in both films, this one is unique in that it's a different story told in a different way by a first - time filmmaker.

Description: A man is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 1800s.

The biracial daughter of a Royal Navy captain, Belle was instrumental in the fight to end slavery in England.

He has tackled tough subjects — the Holocaust in Schindler's List, WWII in Saving Private Ryan, terrorism in Munich, the Civil War and slavery in Lincoln — while somehow always managing to make films that also work as popular entertainments along the way.

It's based on a true story that is shocking even for antebellum America, of a free man from upstate New York, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South.

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, written by John Ridley, follows the story of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free man living in New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South.

What they're talking and arguing about is Lincoln's moral need to bring a legal end to slavery in the United States.

While the first episode lacks development of any of the characters outside of Kunta Kinte, a young man taken from Africa and sold into slavery in the United States, it still resonates.

Savagely lyrical, Vazante offers a harsh, impressionistic take on slavery in 19th century Brazil.

In Basterds, however, Tarantino was engaged with an exhaustive canon of World War II movies, from Casablanca to Schindler's List, while the subject of Django Unchained — slavery in the American South — is one that has been conspicuously absent in Hollywood films in the century since D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation.

This law will finally abolish slavery in the United States; Lincoln feels he needs to achieve this prior to the reunification of the country or else passage will become much more difficult.

These same Radical Republicans will never support a peace plan that leaves slavery in tact.

The journalist was doing some low - laying of his own, having recently lost his job after fudging crucial facts in a cover story about child slavery in Africa.

Almost simultaneously, Finkel himself is packing up his desk at the Times, having been fired for fudging details in a cover story on modern - day child slavery in Africa.

His new film will tell the true story of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped in New York and sold into slavery in the South in 1841.

Based on the novel by Lawrence Hill, it follows the life of a West African woman named Aminata Diallo (Aunjanue Ellis), who was sold into slavery in South Carolina before the American Revolution leads her to freedom via Nova Scotia, Sierra Leone, and finally England.

The section of the series presents the changes in slavery in North America due to the beginning of British

Atlantic slave trade; African - American history; Slavery in the United States; History in agriculture; African - American business history; African - American Black History Month.

The interracial couple were strolling Atlantic slave trade; African - American history; Slavery in the United States; History in agriculture; African - American business history; African - American

With his brother Bernard, he founded a museum on slavery in rural Maryland, which has become a national attraction.

This is the kind of moral force that succeeded in ridding the world of slavery in previous centuries.

Other archaeologists have found tantalizing hints of slavery in existing remains.

It showed up in economics, specifically in an economic analysis of slavery in America.

Declining wildlife populations has exacerbated child slavery in Ghana, Somali piracy and the illegal ivory trade

Its historic origins come from the emancipation of slavery in the Caribbean, according to Councilman Jumaane Williams, representative of Flatbush and a participant in J'Ouvert for as long as he can remember.

«Harriet Tubman is best known for bravely devoting her life to the end of slavery in America, but she also was a fiercely outspoken advocate for women's rights and women's suffrage, decades before women were granted the right to vote.

I had hoped for more information along the lines of Britain outlawed slavery in 18xx, France in 18xx, -LSB-...] Jamaica became a nation in 18xx, Barbuda in 18xx, before / after slavery was outlawed and therefore likely does / doesn't have standing.

That echoes another Biblical parallel: in the post-Red Sea wilderness, between Egypt and Canaan, the Promised Land, the stiff - necked Israelites barked at Jehovah to either divine instant el - dorado, or pronto, return them to old slavery in Egypt!

Slavery was also condoned in the Bible but I doubt you're comfortable with slavery in the US.

The 13th Amendment, which banned legalized slavery in America, went into effect 150 years ago this month.

As plans for an anti-slavery bill are announced, Jenny Hill speaks to women who have escaped slavery in the UK.

Film director Steve McQueen, the director of 12 Years A Slave, highlighted the enduring nature of slavery in 21st century Britain at the Baftas last night.

A copy of the Building a fairer system: tackling modern slavery in construction supply chains report can be accessed at: http://policy.ciob.org/research/.

He actively lobbied the Supreme Ct. to decide the Dred Scott v. Sandford suit that would maintain the status of slaves; and even allow slavery in new territories.

Priority should be given to tackling illegal recruitment fees, according to a new report Building a fairer system: tackling modern slavery in construction supply chains, launched today (Wednesday 13 July).

That would encourage teachers to receive special training to help their students learn about modern - day slavery in a sensitive and engaging way.

Scarsdale Historical Society Examines the History of Slavery in Scarsdale, Westchester County and New York City.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway is expected to appear before Parliament amidst issues about modern - day slavery in Libya.

«When you see a pastor trying to say, «Had it not been the ministry, I would have been like this or that, as a means to stir people to give money,» watch out, for the tendency to get back into slavery in «Egypt» or the tendency to be «fleshy» is strong.

Firms of a certain size will need to report the steps they have taken to prevent modern slavery in their supply chains or that no such steps have been taken.

The rare decision comes after months of anger from anti-slavery groups, who have argued that the home secretary's legislation will do little to tackle modern slavery in the UK.

Not just about baby food marketing, but trade union busting; failure to act on child labour and slavery in its cocoa supply chain; exploitation of farmers, particularly in the dairy and coffee sectors; and environmental degradation, particularly of water resources.

After being found in a basket in the bulrushes as a baby, Moses grew up to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and into the Promised Land.

The Apartheid in South Africa, the Slavery in the United States, and the Indian Act in Canada are all examples of historical events and policies that have affected and continue to influence fatherhood practices.

This will require careful monitoring; when Nestlé was targeted over child slavery in its cocoa supply chain it promised in 2001 to ensure this had ended within 5 years, but has still not delivered.

These brave women who lived in slavery in Egypt and defied Pharaoh's edict for the Jewish midwives to kill Jewish male babies, by giving birth on their own, squatting in the fields.

Othermothers — women who care for children not biologically their own — have also been a tradition for black mothers dating back to the days of slavery in the United States, even longer in some African societies.