Example sentences for: slavery

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

  • Frederick Douglass argued that slavery was a sin because by “subjecting one man to the arbitrary control of another, it contravenes the first command of the Decalogue.

  • Since wage slavery is a well-established phenomenon, and getting better established by the day, a little nonreproduction bribery sounds pretty mainstream.

  • In 1872, one momentous decree abolished the 350-year-old institution of slavery in Puerto Rico, and in 1897 Spain cut the colonial ties and finally granted the island autonomy.

  • Confederate apologists, who wrote the first round of histories of the South, portrayed slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution (for more on this topic, see "") and painted the carpetbaggers as venal and corrupt interlopers.

  • A welfare recipient compared New York's workfare program to "slavery" and protested that it was "demeaning" to clean toilets.


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