Sentence examples for between slaves were not from inspiring English sources

Although Thornton and Ruthie were married by a black minister, they lived apart, since marriages between slaves were not legal.

Slaves were not citizens.

Marriages among slaves were not legally recognized.

Within the Master Slave approach it is assumed that each 'Slave' satellite depends only on a 'Master' satellite, whereas the correlation between the slaves is not described (cf. Figure6).

There are many possible reasons for this, but the most likely is related to the possibility of sexual contact between servant and master; a prohibition against sexual contact between royalty and servants, guards and slaves was not uncommon in many parts of the world during Halotus' era, and it was thought that male castration would prevent this.

The slaves are not happy.

The slaves are not just helpless victims.

The irony of a humanitarian law that protected slave owners rather than slaves was not lost on European critics.

The tablets indicate that unions between slaves and non-slaves were not uncommon and that slaves could work and own land.

Slaves themselves were not compensated.

In the majority of slave societies (the Danish Virgin Islands excepted), on the other hand, slave marriages were not recognized in law and were not something that slave owners had to think about legally when disposing of slaves.