The Birth of A Nation, an Untold True Story of Slave Rebellion

The Birth of A Nation, an Untold True Story of Slave Rebellion The Birth of a Nation, about the 1831 uprising of a slave community in the American south, is a fiery account of a rebellion against injustice and oppression. Based on a true story, the f

一千零一夜英文故事：Alaudeen and The Magical Lamp

Alaudeen was a small boy. He lived in a village in Persia. He played in the streets with his friends often. One day he met a stranger in the road, while he was playing. He said that he was his fathers brother. He had seen him as a small boy. So you d

英语口语最炫潮流 50 房奴

01. Such high housing prices have rendered me a mortgage slave. 这么高的房价把我变为房奴。 02. Mortgage slave is adopted to de scribe those people whose mortgage paymnent is more than half of their monthly salary. 房奴一词被用来描述

VOA常速英语2008年-Former Slave Tells of Rape in Case Against Nige

By Ricci Shryock Dakar 15 April 2008 Human-rights activists say a slavery trial in Niger last week brought local attention to the persistent problem, but a verdict is not expected until October. For VOA, Ricci Shryock reports from Dakar. Lawyer Helen

VOA慢速英语2014 美国最高法院接管雅米斯泰德号奴隶船的案件 Supreme Court Rules in Amistad Slave Ship Case

Supreme Court Rules in Amistad Slave Ship Case 美国最高法院接管雅米斯泰德号奴隶船的案件 From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation a weekly program of American history for people learning American English. Im Ste

2007年VOA标准英语-Britain Marks Bicentenary of Abolition of Slave

By Tendai Maphosa London 23 March 2007 Britain is commemorating the 200th anniversary of the passage of the law that abolished the trans-Atlantic slave trade March 25 1807. One of the most poignant of the events is Slave Britain, a photographic exhib

Archeologists Uncover Large Slave Village Near Washington DC

Archeologists in Frederick, Maryland are digging up the past, trying to piece together what the lives of slaves might have been like. French refugee farmers from Haiti kept slaves there in the early 1800s, and the National Park Service says the large

ＶＯＡ标准英语２０１３－－New Audio Book Revives Slave's Firsthand Account

New Audio Book Revives Slave's Firsthand Account Academy-award-winning actor Louis Gossett, Junior, reads the words of Solomon Northup from his autobiography, Twelve Years a Slave, which was published in 1853. It tells how Northup, a free black man f

VOA标准英语2014--One-Time Slave Pen Now a Museum About Horrors of Slavery

One-Time Slave Pen Now a Museum About Horrors of Slavery ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA The award-winning movie 12 Years a Slave is based on the memoir of Solomon Northrup, a free black man from New York who was kidnapped in Washington in 1841. It is also the

The abolition of the slave trade

BBC Learning English Weekender The abolition of the slave trade William:Hello and welcome to Weekender Im William Kremer. Lets start by going back to 1807. At that time, Britain was an extremely powerful country with a large empire. Britain made its

【电影预告片填空】为奴十二载

I wanna ask you what part of the country you come from. I was raised in Canada. Guess where it is? I know where Canada is. I've been there myself. You are a travelling slave. Solomon Northup is an expert player of violin. I was born a free man, lived

Exodus 出埃及记21

21These are the laws you are to set before them: 2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 3If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when

VOA标准英语2010年-Students Try to Save Slave Island in S

Students heading for Bunce Island, Sierra Leone Some former slave ports in Africa are now tourist destinations, but not Bunce Island in Sierra Leone. It's abandoned and its slave castle is in ruins. The British established Bunce Island as a slave por

VOA常速英语2008年-Former Slave Launches Case Against Niger

By Nico Colombant Dakar 07 April 2008 A woman once forced into a life of sexual slavery and domestic labor has filed suit against the government of Niger. The case is being heard by the court of the Economic Community of West African states. The cour

“房奴”是"house slave"吗？

编者：《蜗居》真实地展现了房奴的艰辛生活，让每个有着痛苦买房经历的人都有强烈的认同感。对于房奴的英语翻译，有mortgage slave 和 house slave 两种，哪种更地道呢，今天来看一下吧。 如今

英语听力—环球英语 1187 Harriet Tubman: From Slave to Hero

Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Adam Navis. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid . Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 A woman hurries through the dark f

CCTV9英语新闻：Steve McQueen discusses diversity in "12 Years a Slave"

As we enter 2014, award season is just around the corner. Director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave is definitely one of the front-runners. 12 Years a Slave is based on the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery. T

环球英语 — 206：Equiano: The Slave Made Free

Voice 1 Hello, Im Ruby Jones. Voice 2 And Im Rachel Hobson. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 3 We arrived at the c

环球英语 — 210：The Slave Trader Who Found God

Voice 1 Hello. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once w

英语听力：鲁宾孙漂游记 02. Down the coast of Africa

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