Sentence examples for slaves from inspiring English sources

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

Also, as this excellent Atlantic piece points out, there's a slightly uneasy "white saviour" theme throughout, best exemplified by a genuinely ghastly scene where the family tell the slaves that they're letting them go, everybody starts hugging and, quick as a flash, one of the freed women starts singing Amazing Grace.

Why is this family decrying slavery while fighting for the right to keep slaves?

Some voices have been arguing that a band consisting of two white men don't have any right to call themselves Slaves, that the term is racially loaded.

Myers said there are also plans to repurpose a few of the life-sized figures for a new exhibit on the Underground Railroad, a clandestine pre-war network that transported slaves from the South to freedom in Canada.

Guns and other manufactured goods were shipped from Europe to the west coast of Africa and exchanged for slaves who were then shipped across the Atlantic to work the plantations.

"No way would they have been buried so honourably if they were slaves".

Egypt displayed today newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza, supporting evidence that slaves did not build the ancient monuments.

Egypt's chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, said the finds show the workers were paid labourers, rather than slaves.

I see Uruk guards menacing human slaves while others gather in small groups, bitching about their captains; I see caragors stalking through the wavering grasses.

Not only does Adidas want to make buyers its slaves, but it also seems content to work producers that way, too.