The phrase "a slave in a" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing themes of servitude, oppression, or metaphorical comparisons in literature or social commentary.
Example: "In the novel, the protagonist feels like a slave in a system that does not value her contributions."
Alternatives: "a servant in a" or "a captive in a".
But she claimed that she was kept as a slave in a flat in Thamesmead, south-east London after coming to the UK.
In January, the Newark Public Library covered a charcoal drawing by the artist Kara Walker after complaints from staff members about her depiction of a slave in a sexual act with a white man.
(Reading Ridley's essay, in fact, casts "12 Years A Slave" in a different light: for all its brilliance, the film is also the story of a virtuous black family man brought low by whites, who see no distinction between him and others of similar pigmentation).
RETURNING home from a visit to Russia in 1774, the philosophe Denis Diderot wrote that in France, he could not "help but think that I've the soul of a slave in a country where men are called free," whereas in Russia he "had the soul of a free man in a country where men are called slaves".
The other day in Jamiya's newly mixed social studies class, students debated who was to blame in an ancient Roman legal case in which a barber shaving a slave in a public square was hit by a ball and cut the slave's throat.
This is a version of the remarkable true story of Solomon Northup, a black man who was born free in New York, kidnapped in Washington DC in 1841 and made to work as a slave in a Louisiana cotton plantation for 12 years.
Crafts's story offers us, as Gates notes, a virtually unparalleled opportunity "to gain access to the mind of a slave in an unmediated fashion".
The crossover would have seen a younger version of the blacksmith character from RZA's film appear as a slave in an auction.
He mimes being a slave, in chains.
The director Steve McQueen provides commentary on a clip from his film "12 Years a Slave" in "The Anatomy of a Scene".
At that time he was around 50 years old… He had a brother who was a slave in the colony of Suriname".
