Sentences with phrase «slaves at»

Naming the Money (2004), shown as part of «Navigation Charts» at Spike Island, consists of 100 life - size cut - outs that represent African slaves at the royal courts of 18th - century Europe; each one is assigned a creative role, from artists and musicians to shoemakers.

I believe the master stated he was not interested in buying slaves at the market.

My only quibble with President Obama's picks here is with his predecessor Washington, a wealthy plantation owner who never emancipated his 300 + slaves at Mount Vernon, not even upon his death.

Trouble comes when he uncovers a scheme to fake old people's death and actually send them away to be slaves at a small farm house, owned by the mother of Neil King (Owen Wilson), the head nurse and a supreme sleaze bag.

The film's nadir is a scene in which Curtis recites a poetic «song» to a group around a campfire and which becomes the occasion for a montage devoted to the beauties of a kitschy soundstage version of «nature,» followed by glimpses of other salt - of - the - earth slaves at rest who register like warmed - over Depression archetypes.

Their very first strike action tagged «the general strike of the plebeians» occurred because they saw with indignation how their friends, who had often served the state bravely in the legions, were savagely chained and reduced to slaves at the demand of Roman aristocratic creditors.

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.

The very fact that he spoke to slaves at all in his letters was amazing for the time period.

A stratified society, with wealthy landowners at the top and slaves at the bottom and, in between, a mass of poor folk skirting precariously the edge of servitude for debt and in times of depression forced into it or compelled to sell sons or daughters to redeem the family's fortunes — such a picture is revealed by a careful reading of the records.

It seems unlikely that this was the first time Moses had seen the slaves at labor, or that this was the first beating he had observed.

Egypt would be unlikely to record the successful flight of thousands of its slaves at the time of Moses.

It will take painstaking research to determine how much liability adheres to a family that might have owned one or two slaves at different times over two hundred years, and how much to a family that owned hundreds of slaves without interruption, and under conditions that would make any civilized conscience falter.

The explosion of Mount Vesuvius was so sudden, the residents were killed while in their routine: men and women were at the market, the rich in their luxurious baths, slaves at toil.

In fact, don't beat your slaves at all»

While I will agree that his ownership of slaves at all, which went back a few generations, was wrong, we often use today's morals to judge others from a previous era.

Now I work half the hours, as well, instead of slaving at the 11th hour or for a small agency 60 - 80 hours a week.

And, let's face it, without employee health plans covering that procedure, the wages they make slaving at the store wont cover the cost.

First there is a little girl from the land of Israel who is a slave at Damascus in the household of Naaman.

So if you've already decided to build huge traps, you should at least learn how to do it the right way instead of slaving at the gym for hours with nothing to show for it.

In the spirit of Halloween and in remembrance of the abs I visualize while I» m slaving at the gym, this had to be my fave.

I consider myself a novice but have a slave at heart.

Want to have a sex slave at your beck and call?

His Stephen is the longest - tenured slave at a sprawling pre — Civil War cotton plantation — senior enough that he's beloved of his Francophile proprietor Mr. Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), but still obliged to parrot his master's observations in the company of guests.

Acting being what he has slaved at for 40 years, hitting the summit some time back.

It tied with 12 Years a Slave at the Producers Guild, and tied with Her at the Los Angeles Film Critics awards in a year of very competitive films.

His demeanor is meek, which is what was expected of a slave at this time.

She was in shock to discover what had really happened — and later to make the connection between Nolan's forcing himself on a slave at his sister's wedding, her own father's abuse of his white male privilege, and her own rape.

In 2013, she curated «L'Esclave au Louvre: une humanité invisible» (Slave at the Louvre: an invisible humanity).

The rest of us are still here, not exactly slaving away because there's nothing to slave at, but languishing in the doldrums.

Barkley L. Hendricks found a buyer for Bid «Em In / Slave at $ 144,000.

Not exact matches

After sweeping the grand jury and audience awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Nate Parker's directorial debut, in which he plays slave Nat Turner who orchestrates an uprising against slave owners in Virginia, is receiving a lot of award - season heat.

Virginia, fearing attempts at poisoning, made it a capital offense for slaves to prepare or administer medicine.

She bristled at the term, suggesting that it diminishes the back - breaking work that slaves were forced to do.

The daughter of former slaves, she was orphaned at the age of 7, married at 14, became a mother at 17 and a widow at 20.

12 Years a Slave The misleading poster by Italian film distributor BIM Distribuzione featured the giant head of movie star Brad Pitt, who served only a supporting role in the film, while the movie's lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was given a tiny spot at bottom right corner.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

West: US Dollar «Like Slave Movies» Speaking in an interview for TMZ May 1, West hit out at the past four hundred years of US history with regard to slavery, calling the period a «choice.»

CN operates a railway that terminates at Hay River on the south shore of Great Slave Lake, 450 road km south of NICO and provides a rail link for haulage of the concentrate that will be produced at the mine site.

«the worst off slaves in those times were not bad at all.

It doens» t sound strange to me at all, I too can think for myself... because I was a believer in God long before I read His book, the difference is I acknowledge that I am not in control of this life, I can choose to either be a slave to sin or a slave to God, either way I am a slave just as you are, but I choose to be a slave to my God who created me, who or what do you choose to be a slave to?

Employees in some of our biggest firms slave well into the early hours only to get up at the crack of dawn, all in an attempt to avoid failure.

redzoa The African Slave trade is not at issue and God did specifically forbid kidnaping foreigners into slavery.

If you think that is wrong then you are at direct odds with your god who condones slavery, a.k.a outlining when it's acceptable and not punishing people who do own slaves.

He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once.»

At a climactic point, after Uncle Tom experiences a vision of the crucified Christ in preparation for his own martyrdom, the slave owner Legere begins to beat him and then suddenly realizes that «it was GOD who was standing between him and his victim.»

The isrralites at the time of jesus wwere not slaves, they were oppressed by the romans but not slaves like the time of moses.

The same chapter concludes with Cassy, another slave, at the point of despair asking Tom to kill Legere whom she had drugged.

«you have ZERO understanding of the practice at the time, over 30 % of the Roman population was slaves.

He told the Jews at one point to free their slaves and they did, then, they turned around and re-enslaved them again.

People who choose to be slaves are not slaves â $ «if you can pack up and leave at any time, you are not a slave, you are an employee â $ «thatâ $ ™ s the difference.