Example sentences for: slaves

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

  • The freedmen could aspire to power in the region where they previously had been slaves.

  • Besides cataloging the brutalities of slave owners, Stampp showed that slaves actually did not appreciate the experience.

  • Thanks to Gutman, Genovese, and their left-wing peers, we now know that the notion that "Slaves Were Happy," as the New York Times headline put it, is not necessarily false.

  • In 1974, the radical historian Eugene Genovese (who has since become a Catholic conservative) published Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made . Now a staple in college history courses, Roll, Jordan, Roll painted a picture of slaves not as mere victims of oppression but as creators of a vibrant life.

  • Treatment of slaves was for the most part cruel and inhumane, with family life virtually destroyed as fathers were systematically split from mothers and their children.


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