Sentence examples for house slave from inspiring English sources
noun
A slave who works in a home, performing domestic duties rather than fieldwork or other hard labor.
Melvinia was not a privileged house slave like Sally.
A house slave, Oney Judge, escaped, confirming his worst fears.
His mother was a house slave and his father an unknown white man.
A posh carriage house, slave quarters and an 18th-century log cabin dot the lush grounds.
Isaiah, the house slave, is no fool — and perhaps no villain.
Samuel L Jackson is Stephen, the malevolent, all-seeing "house slave": the Uncle Tom to end them all.
She got her best supporting actress award by playing Mammy, the jolly house slave in Gone With the Wind.
Samuel L. Jackson, who played the house slave Stephen, wore makeup to create a darker-skinned look and prosthetics to make him look older.
I literally had to be an in-house slave for three years before I earned the master's trust and was accepted to be his apprentice.
It's the tale of three hapless lads – Tom Rosenthal's Marcus, Joel Fry's Stylax and their gormless house-slave Grumio, played by Ryan Sampson – trying to make their way in the big city.
Phillis Wheatley (1753 -1784), a young, lettered house-slave in Boston, Massachusetts, wrote poems "on various subjects, religious and moral," in one of which she expounded on the significance of "Being Brought from Africa to America" and extolled Christians to remember that though Negroes be "black as Cain," they, too, can be "refin'd and join th' angelic train" (Wheatley [1773] 1997).
