Example sentences for: anti-slavery

How can you use “anti-slavery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 2) If his international-law objection is valid, why didn't anti-slavery senators who opposed admission of another slaveholding state raise it at the time?

  • He ran for Congress from Massachusetts and, revitalized, served for 18 years--notably helping to overturn the shameful "gag rule" that forbade the reading of anti-slavery petitions on the floor of the House.

  • Park Street Church stands on a site whose nickname comes from Brimstone Corner (some say for the fiery sermons delivered by such figures as Henry Ward Beecher and William Lloyd Garrison, who delivered his first anti-slavery speech here in 1829, others because gunpowder was kept in the basement during the 1812 War).


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