Sentence examples for slave leader from inspiring English sources

Spartacus, the slave leader, began his revolt at Capua in 73 bc.

The main airport has been renamed "Toussaint L'Ouverture" after the Haitian slave leader and national hero.

Surrounded by bodies, slowly dying of thirst, Shorty passes time by recalling his violent childhood in the slums, and shares a psychic (read: voodoo) connection with Toussaint L'Ouverture, the rebel slave leader and hero of the 18th-century Haitian revolution.

Darren points out that there are also a number of Spartak clubs (Moscow, Sofia, Trnava), named after Spartacus, the slave leader in the Third Servile War against the Romans.

Here once more, among others, are the girl who loses her virginity on prom night; the account of date rape; the tough seductress left weeping in her bed at dawn; the 8-year-old inspired by a library book about Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Haitian rebel slave leader; the haunted woman in the streets of Harlem; and the battered woman and the monstrous lover who claims her children.

The slave leader's death became the subject of general horror and indignation throughout liberal Europe.

SAY the name Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti this week, and it's as if the revolutionary slave leaders Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines were still riding over the plains and mountains here, astride Delacroix-worthy steeds, making their descent with sabers drawn upon the vast plantations of the French masters.

Certainly other slave leaders are mentioned Crixus, Oenomaus, Gannicus, and Castus and we cannot tell from the historical evidence whether they were aides, subordinates, or even equals leading groups of their own and traveling in convoy with Spartacus' people.

Mr. Turner, who shares a name and iconoclastic spirit with the 19th-century slave rebellion leader, left the public school system in the midst of controversy.

Across the road from Castellani is the Square of the Revolution, dominated by a statue of Cuffy, the 1763 Berbice slave revolt leader.

Those movies vying for awards this year which flout a basis in fact include biopics of Jackie Kennedy Jackiee), the man behind McDonald's (The Founder) and slave revolt leader Nat Turner (The Birth of a Nation).