Sentences with phrase «white slave trader»

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Get Out managed to strike a deep nerve with the zeitgeist, resonating with themes of black excellence and white subjugation, exploring how American racial relations tick all the way back to the days of the slave traders and the traded.

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.