Sentence examples for slave population from inspiring English sources

My ancestors fought their way out of America's slave population.

In the United States, unlike the West Indies, the slave population grew by natural increase.

But he had yet to alter policy on the ground regarding Kentucky's sizable slave population.

Without significant imports the Southern slave population increased fourfold between the early 1800s and 1860.

(The inclusion of the slave population was known separately as the three-fifths compromise).

More slaves would also have meant heightened fear of revolt and ever more stringent controls on the slave population.

With such a large slave population, it was perhaps inevitable that rumors of uprisings periodically terrified local whites.

Nearly 80,000 enslaved people lived in the surrounding counties, almost a fifth of Virginia's total slave population.

Harrison County, home to Wiley, once held the largest slave population in the state, and antebellum culture cast a shadow on race relations well into the 20th century.

Influences include the indigenous Taino people, Danish and French colonists, and neighboring Puerto Rico, as well as African flavors brought by the former slave population.

But how, exactly, did "self-interest" differ from selfishness, and what of the growing slave population excluded from the opportunities afforded white men like Crèvecoeur?