Sentence examples for white servants from inspiring English sources

He was captured there and, along with two white servants who had also escaped, was put on trial.

The fear that white servants and black slaves might love and procreate and eventually outnumber and overpower their masters?

Making light of the problems he anticipated in keeping white servants, he wrote that his wife Ellen "will have to wait on herself or buy a nigger.

His punishment — servitude for life — was harsher than what the white servants received, and it has led some historians to regard him as the first African to be legally sanctioned as a slave, years before Virginia adopted laws allowing slavery.

Similarly, these works overturn stereotypes: Shonibare casts himself as a black dandy surrounded by obsequious white servants; Perry uses tapestries – the grand decor of the rich – to show the close weaving of taste and money.

The strange but true story of George Washington's chef — and slave — told by Ramin Ganeshram, writing for Gilt Taste: Behind the scenes, Hercules was the Gordon Ramsay of his day, presiding over a bustling kitchen that included other slaves, paid white servants, and possibly white indentured servants.

This is a world of suspicion, rumours, divided loyalties: of black and white, servant and master, Rhodies and British whites.

His Soliman, who is employed by a Jewish industrialist, is dismissed in disgrace after the revelation of an affair with a white servant girl.

("I say you nebber seen a n---," he snaps at Trump's white servant, explaining that the correct term is "culled pussons").

Another is the simple bulwark of realism: that he was describing the relationships between black and white, servant and master, oppressed and oppressor, as they were at the time - and to do otherwise would be to do a disservice to his reader.

Many white indentured servants had an experience that was not so different from that of the enslaved Africans, she said.