Sentences with phrase «with slave traders»

The defendants, claims Fagan's suit, «conspired with slave traders, with each other and other entities and institutions... to commit and / or knowingly facilitate crimes against humanity, and to further illicitly profit from slave labor.»

Especially disturbing is the casual but complete dehumanization he finds being a slave means, with slave trader Freeman (an excellent Paul Giamatti) offering him and others for sale with a casual «what catches your fancy, inspect at your leisure.»

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The empire was filled with rootless and excluded people: immigrants, traders, slaves.

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.

The wounded Maximus collapses and is captured by a passing slave trader, who sells him and a black man named Juba (Djimon Hounsou) to Proximo (Oliver Reed, unfortunately sharing no screen time with fellow hell - raiser Harris) who trains both men as gladiators.

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.

This time, with Django Unchained, he lines up slave traders so a black man can blow their fool heads off.

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.

Running twenty - six episodes, the first thirteen cover the creation story and a couple of battles with merman Namor, Dr. Doom, and, after the arrival of special guest hero Silver Surfer, intergalactic slave trader Galactus.

Northup, renamed Platt by a slave trader, is played with unwavering conviction by British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor.

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.

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.

Students who were slaves were matched with another student, starting with a chief, and were passed down the network from trader to buyer.

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.

The trader called upon the tobacco plantation looking for slaves of breeding age, preferably with all their teeth and of pliable disposition.

There have been comparisons of abolition with mitigation, allowing academic activists to claimt that climate sceptics were the latter day moral equivalent of slave traders.