Sentences with phrase «young slave boy»

His debut young adult novel, «47,» published in 2005, combines historical and speculative fiction about the protagonist, 47, a young slave boy contending with a brutal slave master.

47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master.

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Boys and young men slave away in diamond mines and carpet factories.

Strickland recalls a BBC report of a young boy who had just been rescued from life as a slave chocolate plantation.

, featuring the story of one young African boy who was used for slave labor in a cocoa plantation along the Ivory Coast, will get him a Pulitzer Prize.

First up, Les Miserables actress Samantha Barks will play Baba Yaga and relative newcomer Thor Kristjansson will play «Bright Eyes, an Eastern European taken as a slave as a young boy and now a vicious assassin in the Ottoman Army,» according to The Hollywood Reporter.

A young boy is treated as a slave, and he drinks liberally from a bottle of hard liquor.

Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man.

Curtis» gripping account of the first free child born in Canada's Buxton Settlement for runaway slaves uses a young boy's perspective to relate the horrors his parents escaped, the continuing danger, and the kindness of the people in the community.

She comes to realize that Blue - Eyes was her half - brother who, with his slave mother, was forced to leave the farm when he was a young boy.

Disputed Banksy Back at Auction — The alleged Banksy street artwork, Slave Labor (Bunting Boy), which depicts a young boy stitching Union Jack flags on a sewing machine, and was first painted during the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, is back at auction alongside works by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, despite protestations from the council that represents the district in which the painting was maBoy), which depicts a young boy stitching Union Jack flags on a sewing machine, and was first painted during the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, is back at auction alongside works by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, despite protestations from the council that represents the district in which the painting was maboy stitching Union Jack flags on a sewing machine, and was first painted during the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, is back at auction alongside works by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, despite protestations from the council that represents the district in which the painting was made.

When I was there, a young Japanese boy was excitedly drawing a slave ship from all four sides of the huge volume, while a girl scrawled «pour la vie» and then fled).