Sentence examples for enslaved populations from inspiring English sources

Thus, people who are racially categorized as black may possess a variety of ethnic identities based either on African national or cultural markers (e.g., Kenyan, Igbo, Zulu) or the newer national, sub-national, or trans-national identities created through the mixing of enslaved populations in the Americas (e.g., African American, Haitian, West Indian).

The "Sketches of Character" mostly document the Jonkonnu, an Afro-Caribbean masquerade performed by the formerly enslaved population around the Christmas and New Year's holiday period.

We are also told that Jefferson and Humboldt had different attitudes toward the Haitian Revolution, which had recently led to a declaration of independence by the formerly enslaved population, but we don't know whether that topic came up in their meetings, either.

To say to a formerly enslaved population, "Be glad!

I think the town should be very concerned about it". If Fort Bragg wants suggestions for a new name, he said, "I have a list of some great African American generals". But California is rife with towns named for 19th century men who slaughtered and enslaved native populations.

It began in the late 19th century when King Leopold II of Belgium virtually enslaved the population to extract as much ivory and rubber as possible.

The legacy of brutality and exploitation goes back to the 1880s, when King Leopold II of Belgium claimed Congo as a colony and essentially enslaved the population to obtain piles of ivory and rubber.

The wars in Spain were brought to a conclusion in 133 by Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, who took Numantia after a long siege, enslaved the population, and razed the city.

Each time Nebuchadnezzar's soldiers moved into new territory, they enslaved the population and plundered its treasures.

They sacked it and enslaved its population.

But that conclusion depended on the incorrect-but-apparently-universal belief among the relevant Founders that Maryland's free-population-plus-three-fifths-of-its-enslaved-population was larger than North Carolina's".