Example sentences for: slaves

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

  • The turning point for their relationship was a celebration of Juneteenth Day, a holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when slaves in Texas first learned that the Civil War was over and, two and a half years after the fact, that President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

  • When the Republic was proclaimed in Paris in 1848, Schoelcher drafted the emancipation decree that freed 87,500 slaves in Guadeloupe and 72,000 in Martinique.

  • The media bemoaned the vulnerability of illegal immigrants (trapped by their fear that outsiders will discover they're illegal) and congratulated Mayor Rudy Giuliani for rescuing the New York slaves.

  • Sharpe and approximately 1000 other slaves surrendered peacefully, only to be rounded up and publicly executed.

  • They're not good or evil, they are just mindless slaves to instinct and the food chain.


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