SLAVERY in a Sentence
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112 example sentences for SLAVERY, such as:
1. Its people were thus reduced to slavery.
2. The institution of slavery was once widespread.
3. The slavery was overthrown after the Civil War in U.
4. People are still suffering under the yoke of slavery.
5. The slaves got freedom after the abolition of slavery.
2. The institution of slavery was once widespread.
3. The slavery was overthrown after the Civil War in U.
4. People are still suffering under the yoke of slavery.
5. The slaves got freedom after the abolition of slavery.
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Meanings and Examples of SLAVERY
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slavery
n. the practice of owning slaves
n. work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
Classic Sentence: (101 in 7 pages)
1 Besides, the fat Dutch woman who is sitting on the throne is a God-fearing soul and she doesn't approve of slavery.
2 Let the English mill workers starve because they can't get our cotton but never, never strike a blow for slavery.
3 Many of them had not even believed in slavery and they thought this was far worse than slavery had ever been.
4 It is slavery self-sought and self-defended.
5 He was born in the Far South, on the d'Arnault plantation, where the spirit if not the fact of slavery persisted.
6 From this exposition of the race issue in lynch law, the whole matter is explained by the well-known opposition growing out of slavery to the progress of the race.
7 In the state of slavery he learned politeness from association with white people, who took pains to teach him.
8 The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul's slavery for the rest of her days.
9 The ancestors of these black people had been savages in Africa; and since then they had been chattel slaves, or had been held down by a community ruled by the traditions of slavery.
10 So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may be, it is easy to find people to perform it.
11 It was doubtless in consequence of a knowledge of this fact, that one great statesman of the south predicted the downfall of slavery by the inevitable laws of population.
12 It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass.
13 Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
14 To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery.
15 Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds.
Example Sentence:
1 People are still suffering under the yoke of slavery.
2 The slavery was overthrown after the Civil War in U.
3 Mere discriminations on account of race or color were not regarded as badges of slavery.
4 The slaves got freedom after the abolition of slavery.
5 The history of tobacco growing is intimately associated with colonialism and slavery.
6 The institution of slavery was once widespread.
7 Its people were thus reduced to slavery.
8 Viridina had freed him and sent him away to join the outlaw humans that had escaped their lives of slavery.
9 As for USA history of 18th century, the main spark was Lincoln winning in 1860 and trying to ban slavery.
10 The Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in the United States.
11 “12 Years a Slave,” a searing period drama that confronted moviegoers anew with the cruelties of American slavery, won best picture at the 86th Academy Awards.