Sentence examples for practice slavery from inspiring English sources

Further, that some African states still practice slavery.

Although its founders refused to recognize the right of states and territories to practice slavery, the modern Republican Party supports states' rights against the power of the federal government in most cases, and it opposes the federal regulation of traditionally state and local matters, such as policing and education.

The countries that freed the slaves without war, presumably France and England, unlike the U.S., did not practice slavery in their countries.

While the Mandinka Muslims continued, illegally, to practice slavery and trade, non-Muslim villages tended to come together, accepting the Resident of Carabane as the arbitrator of their disagreements.

The arrival of trade with Europe introduced a continental outlet for an already common practice; slavery was widespread in Africa largely because people were the only form of private, revenue-producing property recognized across the continent [ 4].

Yes, we practiced slavery.

The Chinooks lived in great wooden lodges, practiced slavery, and had a well-defined caste system.

Slavery was already a present institution – the French who had controlled the area only 20 years earlier, and their allies among the Native American Population, had been practicing slavery in the region for at least one hundred and fifty years before the Americans took control.

Sitting in his back-porch rocking chair, looking over his verdant yard, he tried to disabuse me of the notion that the Confederados came to Brazil to keep practicing slavery.

(Many of New Orleans and regions "Black" population also has Native American roots when many escaped slaves found refugee among local American Indian tribes, although some tribes also practiced slavery).

Only one former member of the Confederacy has expanded Medicaid, and while a few Northern states are also part of the movement, more than 80percentt of the population in Medicaid-refusing America lives in states that practiced slavery before the Civil War.