Sentence examples for escaping slavery from inspiring English sources

"By escaping slavery and helping many others do the same," the writer Feminista Jones argued in the Washington Post, "Tubman became historic for essentially stealing 'property'property

(At one point, Pa Shed's brother, previously unmentioned, was also escaping slavery on the log raft; a somewhat protracted description of Harriet Tubman waited too long to name her, for dramatic effect, when clarity would have been welcome).

Aside from that one important point, your desire to make us believe that Iraqis being freed from a tyrant is comparable to Jews escaping slavery in Egypt is borderline ridiculous.

In addition to the 183 American sailors and soldiers captured during the War of 1812, there were 104 African-Americans who died of smallpox after escaping slavery at that time.

But upheavals in the United States have provided immigrants to Canada: British loyalists after the Revolutionary War, African-Americans escaping slavery before the Civil War, farmers during Canada's Western land rush, and in the late 1960's, about 50,000 young men who came to Canada to escape the Vietnam draft.

But as was rightly pointed out at the time, the film was "a stinker" in its corruption of history, showing black volunteers fighting alongside their white American brothers, when in fact their only hope of escaping slavery was to reach British-held territory.

Jameson's friend in the story, Ignatius Alexander, has escaped slavery and fled to Boston.

O'Ree's grandparents came to Canada from the United States through the Underground Railroad to escape slavery.

Others escaped slavery along the Underground Railroad, often with help from Quakers.

Modern policing even originated in slave patrols and night watches that captured people who tried to escape slavery.

They climb mountains, go on the Underground Railroad to escape slavery, do folk dancing and participate in the Revolutionary War.