Sentence examples for slave based from inspiring English sources

With "12 Years a Slave," based on a memoir published 160 years ago, the answers are anything but routine.

THE SLAVE Based on the work by Isaac Bashevis Singer; adaptation by Yevgeny Arye and Yelena Laskina; translation from Russian to Hebrew by Ben Ben-Shavit.

12 Years a Slave, based on an 1853 memoir of a free black man sold into slavery, won the top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival tonight.

McQueen followed the acclaimed Hunger (2008) and Shame (2011) with the shocking 12 Years a Slave, based on the factual story of a 19th-century freeman kidnapped and sold into slavery.

The director Steve McQueen won the BlackBerry People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival for his drama "12 Years a Slave," based on the story of Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.

12 Years a Slave, based on the eponymous 1853 autobiography of kidnapped black New Yorker Solomon Northup, has already won prizes at the Toronto film festival, the Palm Springs international film festival and been named one of the year's best films by the National Board of Review.

A lot of times, names were appointed to workers – or, rather, slaves – based off of things that they do.

According to Alim, who tackles the racial politics of language in his forthcoming book, Articulate while Black with co-author Dr. Geneva Smitherman, as far back as the 1700's there were documents categorizing American slaves based on their mastery of grammatically correct English.

From there some traders went due west to Ujiji and across Lake Tanganyika to found, in the latter part of the 19th century, slave-based Arab states upon the Luapula and the upper reaches of the Congo.

Privately, Lincoln concluded at this point that the slave base of the Confederacy had to be eliminated.

In a Hadoop cluster, a master node controls a group of slave nodes by assigning tasks to the slave nodes based on their availability.