Sentence examples for built on slavery from inspiring English sources

Ancient Greece was a society built on slavery.

Their foundations were literally built on slavery.

"This is what 'democracy' looks like"—historically, in a country like ours built on slavery and genocide.

ALTHOUGH it was built on slavery, the Caribbean sugar industry turned long ago into a branch of the welfare state, albeit a backbreaking one.

In South Carolina, a Confederate state built on slavery and where racial inequality and segregation are still rife, many hope this case will become a turning point.

A Guardian investigation found the Thai fishing industry was built on slavery, with workers beaten, tortured and even killed to produce prawns for US and UK supermarkets.

For white Americans, must membership in a nation built on race slavery always betoken guilt?

And it's not just the prawn industry that has been built on slaves; slavery in various forms is part of the soya chain in Brazil that feeds the industrial chicken factories of the west, the all-year salad crops from Spain, and has even been uncovered in the supermarket egg chain in the UK.

See more of the facts on thIt from Jim Goad's book here.  .

I think the Nobel committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by vestiges of hateful bigotry (which can still be found on display at teabagger rallies and daily talk radio).

"Jon Corzine is a corporate raider whose fortune, in part, has been built on human misery, slavery and oil, and whose wealth, therefore, has been derived from blood money".