Example sentences for: slaves

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

  • 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.

  • Were slaves happy?

  • In particular, carpetbaggers were scorned for capitalizing on the freed slaves' newly granted right to vote.

  • The momentum for change was growing, and in 1831 a black lay preacher named “Daddy” Sam Sharpe led a revolt of 20,000 slaves at Montego Bay.

  • Now, what is of some interest is that because slaves in other countries were not systematically isolated, there is, as far as I can tell, no such thing as Black Portuguese in Brazil, for example.


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