(1) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(2) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
(3) It traces his progress of degradation unhampered by constituted authority and concludes with his magnum opus--the greatest massacre of South Sea Islanders in the annals of the South Sea slave trade.
(4) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(5) The transformation of the global slave trade from a high-cost, slow-recruitment business to a low-cost, rapid-recruitment one is driving criminal interest in trafficking and slavery, which is why it is permeating every corner of the global economy.
(6) JV If you go back to a western point of view from the time, even the Romans, the slaves worked then in a feudal society.
(7) Northup eventually detailed his experiences in a book, also titled Twelve Years a Slave , which helped historians build a picture of the slave experience at the time.
(8) She was repeatedly raped, beaten and “treated like a slave” throughout her teenage years.
(9) As well as World War Z, Plan B has also produced 12 Years A Slave , the much-lauded slave drama released in the UK on January 10.
(10) Pathological changes indicate that the cemetery contained individuals representing two slave occupational groups, house servants and laborers.
(11) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
(12) It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse.” The pamphlet added that it was also permissible to buy, sell, or give as a gift female slaves, “for they are merely property, which can be disposed of”.
(13) From the steel mines where child slaves gather surgical steel, all the way up to senior doctors working 36 hours on no sleep, the most healthy people in the NHS are actually the patients.
(14) The report said Isis had begun holding online slave auctions with an encrypted application to circulate photos of captured Yazidi women and girls.
(15) The much anticipated landslide for Steve McQueen's powerful slavery drama 12 Years A Slave did not materialise, although it gained a single and respectfully prominent win as best film (drama).
(16) Alfonso Cuarón has won the best director Oscar for Gravity at the 86th Academy Awards, defeating a field that included 12 Years a Slave's Steve McQueen, Nebraska's Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street.
(17) The details of her biography presented here are not as well known--especially the subsequent course of her illness and treatment and her struggle against prostitution and the white slave trade, the latter carried on with special fascination.
(18) But making immigration work for everyone and not just a few means people should contribute before they claim and we should never, ever allow companies to undercut wages and conditions of workers here by paying slave wages to those brought in from overseas.” Miliband also criticised the prime minister for his failure to commit to TV debates during the general election campaign, claiming Cameron was desperate because he “knows he has failed”.
(19) "She said she is going to be sold as a slave this afternoon, for $10," Kaliph said, his tears dropping into the brown dust.
(20) Twelve Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o and Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie officially joined the cast earlier this week, and the film will also feature Attack the Block's John Boyega, Ingmar Bergman-regular Max von Sydow and Harry Potter's Domhnall Gleeson.
Slaver
Definition:
(n.) A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.
(n.) A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader.
(v. i.) To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
(v. i.) To be besmeared with saliva.
(v. t.) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.
(n.) Saliva driveling from the mouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although diplomacy would probably preclude them from saying otherwise, after last night's events at Camp Nou, it's probably safe to say that both Real Madrid and Bayern Munich will be slavering at the prospect of facing suspension-ravaged Chelsea in the final of this year's Champions League .
(2) Twelve Years a Slave stars McQueen's fellow Briton Chiwetel Ejiofor as a real historical figure named Solomon Northup whose 1853 autobiography details the free New Yorker's capture by slavers in Washington DC in 1841 and his subsequent travails on the plantations of Louisiana.
(3) As if that weren't enough, Daenerys Targaryen, accompanied by her menacing trio of dragons and army of Unsullied, is poised to liberate Meereen, the largest city in Slaver's Bay, which could ultimately provide her with enough ships to sail to Westeros and reclaim the Iron Throne."
(4) Legalisation keeps pimps, brothel keepers, and sex-slavers in freedom and riches.
(5) days before the 2018 World Cup vote, the English bid is starting to feel like complicity in the supreme authority's slavering pursuit of the game's astronomical wealth, both over and underneath the counter.
(6) Then Mr Huhne actually turned on the Tories: "If you keep beating the anti-European drum, if you slaver over tax cuts for the rich, you will … wreck the nation's economy and common purpose!"
(7) We are supposed to slaver enviously at this ostentation; if we don’t, we condemn ourselves as losers.
(8) She first developed vesicles and ulcerations in oral and laryngeal mucous membranes, showing a hoarse voice and fits of coughing with excessive slavering.
(9) Was Ramsay Snow’s concubine running away from a pack of slavering dogs or Iwan’s album listening party?
(10) To contemporary readers, Crusoe's attitude to non‑whites is unpalatable; he sells a fellow shipwreck survivor to slavers, and his relationship with Friday seesaws queasily between friendship and servitude.
(11) Sly Bailey, as the chief executive of a company with voracious institutional shareholders slavering in the background, doesn't have that sort of clout.
(12) Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson), 12 Years a Slave is a true horror story that sees an affluent black American, born free in New York state, kidnapped by slavers in 1841; he wakes up in bondage before being transported to the south where he's passed from master to master.
(13) When milk, slaver, nasal secretion, mastitis secretion and blood were offered to flies as feeding substrates only the last three produced significant increases in feeding duration in comparison to controls offered distilled water.
(14) £28m radar deal 'stank' Tanzania, on Africa's east coast, is one of the poorest states in the world, formerly controlled in turn by Arab slavers, German colonists and the British.
(15) McQueen's screenplay is based on Northup's 1853 autobiography, which details the free New Yorker's capture by slavers in Washington DC in 1841 and his subsequent travails on the plantations of Louisiana.
(16) It is often a beautiful and uplifting film but does not flinch from showing the breathtaking cruelty of the slavers.
(17) Morocco This season Morocco has formed the backdrop to Dany's ransacking of Slaver's Bay, with scenes shot in Essaouira and Aït Benhaddou near Ouarzazate.
(18) "To complement this, Britain has also been a nation of emigration, sending 'settlers' to countries such as North America, Australasia and Southern Africa, usually displacing their original inhabitants; traders, investors and slavers all over the world; and conquerors and rulers to India, Africa and elsewhere.
(19) Where they slavered with voracious self-interest, the NHS symbolised courageous self-sacrifice for the good of all.
(20) Speaking to US television talk-show host and journalist Charlie Rose, Lucas quipped that he had sold his “kids … to the white slavers that take these things”.