Example sentences for: slave

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

  • According to the Chronicle of Higher Education , Jordan's collaborator will be legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, an untenured professor at New York University's law school, who swept to prominence last year with the publication of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy . Hailed as the definitive account of Jefferson's long-rumored love affair with the slave Sally Hemings, Gordon-Reed's book argues that historians should give credence to the story of Jefferson's mistress and their six children.

  • The book of Exodus permits the purchase of a Hebrew slave, but after six years of service “he shall go out free, for nothing.”

  • Both the gorge and the staircase, created to allow soldiers to reach or leave the fort quickly, were hewn from the solid limestone by a contingent of slave workers.

  • It is designed to trounce, once and for all, the fictions promulgated by Afrocentrists (they hold, among other things, that Jews ran the slave trade and that Egyptians were black).

  • Here's what Clinton actually said: "Going back to the time before we were even a nation, European Americans received the fruits of the slave trade.


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