Word: slaving
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More irritating is the sidelining of the black characters, "Ol' Man River" notwithstanding. One especially grating moment involves a little exchange between Cap'n Andy, the proprietor of the Cotton Blossom, and the wise slave Queenie in which the latter, in response to Andy's grumbling that the balcony seats aren't selling, asks him "What about colored folks?" and launches into a ballyhoo aimed exclusively at said "colored folks." However, both Gretha Boston, who won a Tony award for her performance as Queenie, and Andre Solomon-Glover as Queenie's husband Joe, establish considerable presence that prevents their characters...
Born in Haiti as the illegitimate son of a French planter and slave trader and his Creole mistress, Audubon was sent to France for a brief education and then to live on a property owned by his father near Philadelphia, where he became enamored of local birds and wildlife. But a series of businesses he tried all failed; in 1819 he had to declare bankruptcy. That was when, at age 35, he decided to enlarge the collection of American bird paintings he had done over the years and prepare them for publication...
...never would have known of the opportunity if he hadn't received an e-mail notifying members of collegiate African student associations that Spielberg was seeking young West African males for a film on the 1839 mutiny and subsequent capture of a slave ship, La Amistad...
...short list for the part of Buakey, a younger brother figure to slave rebel leader Joseph Cinque, was solidified before Spielberg even saw Ashong's tape, but the director's top choice for the part fell through at the last minute...
...have attempted to write a poem about my father who at 11 or 12 hired himself out at a hiring fair as essentially a glorified slave to a farmer," Muldoon said, before reciting his "Third Epistle to Timothy...