Sentences with phrase «slaves like the dirt»

The biggest obstacle in her rescue is the salacious Calvin Candie, an out of type cast Leonardo DiCaprio, who treats the slaves like the dirt of the cotton fields he oversees.

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The Bible clearly shows it was wrong for Joseph to be sold into slavery and Sarah to treat her slave Hagar like dirt.

So it's not enough that we treat our farmers like dirt, we must create near slave - like conditions for agricultural workers in order to reach those holy grails of «increased productivity» and «greater global competitiveness».

When a group of slaves is set to work while Tibeats sings a hate - filled working song, the director layers images and sounds of feet shuffling in the dirt, logs being felled, and the ceaseless claps of the overseer, pounding through everything like a nightmare.

She didn't arrive at Ellis Island as a slave, but she and her entire family were treated like dirt because of their accents, and the «No Italians / Polish / Irish Need Apply» signs in the windows of the stores prohibited them from finding jobs.