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To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.
The gift was a beautiful young slave girl, but Abd al-Rahman humbly returned her to her previous master.
Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus ( 251 – 183 BC ), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.
* Pseudolus: A Roman slave, owned by Hero, who seeks to win his / her freedom by helping his / her young master win the heart of Philia.
A concubinus was a young male slave chosen by his master as a sexual partner.
As Dahomey's kings embarked on wars to expand their territory, they began using muskets and other firearms traded with French and Spanish slave traders for young men captured in battle, who fetched a very high price from the European slave merchants.
Starting his career at sea, at a young age, he became involved with the slave trade for a few years, and was himself enslaved for a period.
While previous critics such as A. W. Gomme believed that the slave was “ truly comic character, the devisor of ingenious schemes, the controller of events, the commanding officer of his young master and friends, is a creation of Latin comedy ,” and that Greek dramatists such as Menander did not use slaves in such a way that Plautus later did, Harsh refutes these beliefs by giving concrete examples of instances where a clever slave appeared in Greek comedy.
His contemporary and enemy, the author of Philosophumena ( probably Hippolytus of Rome ), relates that Callixtus, as a young slave, was put in charge of collected funds by his master Carpophorus, funds which were given as alms by other Christians for the care of widows and orphans ; Callixtus lost the funds and fled from Rome, but was caught near Portus.
As a young man, he befriended Pargalı Ibrahim, a slave who later became one of his most trusted advisers.
Cleïs is referred to in Fragment 132 with the Greek word pais, which can as easily indicate a slave or any young person as an offspring.
In escaping the blockade, the ship is damaged and makes an unscheduled landing on Tatooine, where Qui-Gon meets Anakin Skywalker ( Jake Lloyd ), a young slave who shows such tremendous potential in the Force that Qui-Gon believes him to be the " Chosen One " of Jedi prophecy, destined to bring balance to the Force by destroying the Sith.
According to Josephus it was the conquering of Saba that brought great fame to a young Egyptian Prince, simultaneously exposing his personal background as a slave child named Moses.
In an attempt to show Ophelia that her views on blacks are wrong, St. Clare purchases Topsy, a young black slave.
According to Rankin, in February 1838 a young slave woman had escaped across the frozen Ohio River to the town of Ripley with her child in her arms and stayed at his house on her way further north.
* Topsy – A ragamuffin young slave girl.
In Oscar Wilde's story " The Young King ", a reference is made to the king kissing a statue of ' the Bithynian slave of Hadrian ' in a passage describing the young king's aesthetic sensibilities and his "... strange passion for beauty ...".
In the 10th century, Persian explorer Ahmad ibn Rustah described funerary rights for the Rus included the sacrifice of a young female slave.
He seems to have taken an interest in the marriage and career of his stepdaughter and he also took a young slave boy under his wing, as he was childless, who died c. 95.
When he was a young child a Phoenician sailor seduced his nurse, a slave, who agreed to bring the child among other treasures in exchange for their help in her escape.
According to the memoir of Paul Jennings, a young slave in the White House, Madison's slaves in 1814 helped collect the valuables such as silver, Washington's portrait, and original drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Appius Claudius is said to have made an unjust decision which would have forced a young woman named Verginia into prostitution or as Appius ' personal slave, prompting her father to kill her, and this travesty caused an uprising against the Decemvirate ; the decemviri resigned their offices in 449 BC, and the ordinary magistrates ( magistratus ordinarii ) were re-instituted.

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Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.
I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.
He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.
The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;
Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.
A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.
One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.
and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.
Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??
But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.
She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.
`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.
The sickness was gone and, after all, the two young couples were on their honeymoon.
By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.
That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.
England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.
They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.

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