Slaves in a sentence

British law considered slaves to be property, and thus did not recognize marriage for slaves, family rights, education for slaves, or the right to religious practises such as holidays.

Franklin posted paid ads for the sale of slaves and for the capture of runaway slaves and allowed the sale of slaves in his general store.

Michael Tadman, in a 1989 book Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South, indicates that 60–70% of interregional migrations were the result of the sale of slaves.

Mobile slaveholders owned relatively few slaves compared to planters in the upland plantation areas, but many households had domestic slaves, and many other slaves worked on the waterfront and on riverboats.

The highest position slaves ever attained was that of slave minister… A few slaves even rose to be monarchs, such as the slaves who became sultans and founded dynasties in Islām.

This raid was a joint attack by former slaves, freed blacks, and white men who had corresponded with slaves on plantations in order to form a general uprising among slaves.

Beginning in the late summer of 1862, freed slaves from the Union-occupied Sea Islands and other runaway slaves from South Carolina and Florida asked to be allowed to fight.

Researchers have since speculated that they might have been servants or slaves, or possibly children of servants or slaves residing in the house.

Another 153 slaves at Mount Vernon in 1799 were dower slaves from the Custis estate," according to the association.

Joyce Hope Scott, from Boston, stands at the “Door of No Return” as she visits the “Maison Des Esclaves” slaves house, a gathering point where slaves were shipped west at Gorée Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, July 7, 2019.

The report found that children held in orphanages and reformatory schools were treated no better than slaves—in some cases, sex slaves.

It is 210 years since the 1808 rebellion of slaves in the Cape seeking a free state and freedom for all slaves.

It's like if we had selectively bred human slaves for submission and enjoying slavery, successive generations, until they literally believed that they enjoyed being slaves.

NFL “slaves” have the one great freedom Southern slaves did not — the freedom to quit.

The children of the slaves who were born after March 1, 1784 were considered free citizens, but all those in slavery before that would remain slaves unless their masters freed them, according to Garman.

The reason Charleston imported so many slaves is because the culture of which they were the center in this country (Barbadian) worked so many slaves to death.

About 4000 freed slaves went to Nova Scotia along with about 1200 blacks who remained slaves.

All Volantene slaves have facial tattoos denoting their profession: for instance, sex slaves have tears tattooed on their faces, and the tiger cloaks have tiger stripes.

Also in Rome, some Venetian merchants bought many slaves in the city to sell to the Muslims of Africa; however, Zachary forbade such traffic and then paid the merchants their price, giving the slaves their freedom.

An 1835 illustration of liberated slaves arriving in Sierra Leone In 1652 the first slaves in North America were brought from Sierra Leone to the Sea Islands off the coast of the southern United States.