Example sentences for: slavery

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

  • Anti-Castro Cuban expatriates have inserted him into a messianic narrative in which Elian, plucked from the sea, stands as Moses discovered among the bulrushes: Just as Moses led the Jews out of slavery in Egypt, so to will Elian free Cubans from Castro's rule.

  • The Radicals, who favored the abolition of slavery and supported black suffrage, despised Johnson for his timid plans for readmitting the South to the Union after the Civil War.

  • Alas, M&S continue to take up the cudgel, carping against writing which, in some cases, antedates recognition of a problem: it is like nattering on about how awful the Romans were because they condoned slavery; rather a waste of space, time, and motion, Wot?

  • The paradigm of the exploitative, oppressive relationship in the American experience is, of course, slavery, and therefore in 1865, as the first task of the new constitutional order, we banned the very possibility of private relationships of slavery, established either by force or by consensual agreement between master and slave.

  • In 1807 Parliament made the trade in slaves illegal, but the powerful sugar lobby exerted pressure and slavery continued on the plantations.


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