Example sentences for: slaves

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

  • At this time less than half of the black population were slaves, and those that were led a less onerous life than in most other parts of the South.

  • Slaves in this country were systematically separated from their families, and put in situations where they could not use their native language.

  • Profits came primarily from trading in eastern spices, silk and porcelain, African gold, and slaves, as well as through importing copious sugar from Brazil and São Tomé.

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

  • He freed the slaves, but had no intention of making them equal.


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