Example sentences for: slaves

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

  • The number of Arawak had already fallen dramatically, so the Spanish began to import slaves from Africa to work the land; the first Africans arrived in 1517.

  • An article laments the practice of liberating Sudanese slaves by buying their freedom.

  • Black slaves from Africa also arrived in the earliest years of the colony.

  • The decision is a reflection, I think, not of his catering to fashion, but of the problem facing anyone whose aim is to write the first full history of African-American intellectuals: namely, that since the first African-Americans were slaves introduced largely for manual labor, intellectual activity is naturally not a large part of their record.

  • Johnson, a Tennessee populist who thought blacks inferior to whites, wanted to give Southern states wide latitude in shaping their own laws and governments, regardless of the consequences for the freed slaves.


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