Sentence examples for slavery system from inspiring English sources

"It's no secret we had a slavery system," he said.

Slavery is a state of mind, and most Haratin believe the slavery system is part of Allah's command.

How did the tenets of Buddhism jibe with the "slavery system" in Tibet before China's modernization efforts?

Along with Ejiofor's abductee, we're fully immersed in a slavery system so brutally oppressive even the expression of suffering is forbidden.

It has been majority black since the early 19th century, when its fertile land became the heart of the cotton kingdom and the chattel slavery system that exploited it.

Oroonoko's end is tragic not simply because of the gruesome violence unleashed on him and his young love, Imoinda, or the slavery system that such brutality reinforces, but because it is entwined, Mr. Bandele said, with the insights and regrets that self-awareness brings.

After the Civil War and the abolishment of slavery, the system of convict leasing provided prisoner labor to private entities, including plantation and former plantation owners and corporations.

Wall texts offer detailed accounts of how workers were paid — even how they had to pay to rent straw hats from the commissary to protect themselves from the scorching summer sun — and how labor, tied to the post-slavery sharecropping system, was stratified by discriminatory racial distinctions.

In slavery, exploitative systems of business and commerce viewed black bodies as machines that fueled the power and might of an imperialistic Western world.

Southern business owners sought to reproduce the profitable arrangement of slavery with a system called peonage, in which (disproportionately black) workers were entrapped by loans and compelled to work indefinitely because of their debt.

There are important criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin but, like Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, the novel demolishes slavery's belief system, denying that the enslaved are a different order of beings and may justifiably be exploited.