Sentence examples for poor slave from inspiring English sources
Christianity scandalized the ancient world because it was for common people, open to anyone, rich or poor, slave or free.
She said that losing Charley made her understand "what a poor slave mother may feel when her child is torn away from her".
Apart from the opposition between the noble-minded Spartacus, a poor slave, and the vile, high-placed Crassus — he is said to have been the richest man of ancient Rome — there are the corresponding traits of their ladies.
These are general suggestions placed for you by the poor slave of God, the servant of the Islamic State, in order to be a lighthouse by which there is guidance, as well as general and prompt systems of organisation.
Apart from the opposition between the noble-minded Spartacus, a poor slave, and the vile, high-placed Crassus he is said to have been the richest man of ancient Rome there are the corresponding traits of their ladies.
"Ought one man to own another, law for or not, who made the law, surely the poor slave did not, so it is wicked, and a horrible Outrage, there is no sense in it," she stated and queried, all at once.
Charles II did not just live in obscene luxury while the poor slaved in claypits to make bricks for his mansions; he was a monarchical despot, reigning by terror.
The bourgeois revolutionaries overthrew the ancien régime in the name of freedom and equality for all – and though these ideals were "packed with tacit or explicit clauses excluding women, the poor, slaves and many other groups from its ambit" (Callinicos, Equality), the universalism of these ideals had a tendency to breach these morally arbitrary, power-determined limiting clauses.
She joined the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Lynn, Massachusetts, where her contributions consisted, at first, of stitching and selling pincushions with mottoes such as "Oh sisters! sad indeed's the thought / That in our land poor slaves are bought!" In 1837, she wrote to her sister, "My variety is made up in watching the progress of moral enterprises — Grahamism and Abolition and Peace".
Nevertheless, Wilberforce still hoped "to lay a foundation for some future measures for the emancipation of the poor slaves", which he believed should come about gradually in stages.
Thomas reportedly bemoaned a 'parasitic' relationship between high-flying popular historians, who let poor academics slave away in archives, doing the real work of research, before nabbing their findings and using them in mass-market paperbacks.
