Example sentences for: slave

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

  • An indignant Barbara Chase-Riboud filed a $10 million copyright-infringement suit against Steven Spielberg and the makers of Amistad in October, claiming that the movie contained characters and scenes unique to her historical novel about the slave rebellion.

  • Herbert Gutman's The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925 (1976) showed that slave families, while often broken up when members were sold or assigned to different plantations, were remarkably monogamous and stable.

  • The cover story reports on new DNA tests confirming that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child by his slave Sally Hemings.

  • Flat-Head , for example, refers to several tribes (Catawba, Chinook, Choctaw, Waxshaw, et al.) that once practised head-flattening; and the Yellowknife , an Algonquian people living east of Great Slave Lake, Canada, were so named from their use of copper implements: pedestrian names, these, in which inventiveness played no part.

  • Far better to go with "sex slave trade."


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