How to use slavery in a sentence

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• The campaign for the abolition of slavery changed the course of history.From the entry abolition
• The essay attempts to play down the role slavery had in the Civil War.From the entry play down
• During the era of slavery, Southern antiliteracy laws prevented black people from learning to read.From the entry antiliteracy
• Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery.From the entry condition
• The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.From the entry amendment
• Slavery was an accepted part of antebellum plantation life.From the entry antebellum
• Slavery is widely recognized as immoral.From the entry recognize
• Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery?2024 February 26, Courtney Kube, Marlene Lenthang, Corky Siemaszko, quoting Aaron Bushnell, “U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire…. From the entry Jim Crow
• Calhoun, a slaveowner and staunch supporter of antebellum plantation slavery, stood.2020 August 31, Dartinia Hull, “‘Not everything is pretty here’: Charleston tourism reckons with slavery and racism”, in CNN. From the entry antebellum
• This was widely interpreted to mean that slavery was once more firmly illegal in England.2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 3:21 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29…. From the entry specifically
• The British Empire was in a somewhat-hypocritical position when it came to slavery.2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 1:33 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29…. From the entry hypocritical
• A tour d'horizon of the Western Hemisphere showed slavery confined to the American South, Brazil, and Cuba.2014, William A. Blair, Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2014 Issue, page 227. From the entry tour d'horizon
• “Half-free” meant that the slaves themselves were now free, but their children would return to slavery.2014, William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts. From the entry half-free
• Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime.2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry exception
• What’s the matter, can’t God create decent jobs in His own country instead of minimum-wage, McDonald’s-esque slavery?1994 November 8, Greg McBride, “Where’s God’s country?”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 166th year, number 161, page A14. From the entry McDonald's-esque
• Decency required that secession and the Juggernautish western advance of slavery stop.1973, Harold Melvin Hyman, A More Perfect Union, page 39. From the entry Juggernautish
• Slavery in the United States has been almost completely associated with the South.1972, Robert N. Webb, The Colony of Rhode Island, New York: Franklin Watts, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 51. From the entry Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
• And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved.1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 24. From the entry compare
• To get gold to buy peace, they will sell their children into slavery.1903 April 22, Ottilie A[delina] Liljencrantz, “The Game of Swords”, in The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest…. From the entry nithing
• Hundreds of thousands were killed or sold into slavery.2024, David Golinkin, “Comfort, Oh Comfort My People”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page x. From the entry Eretz Yisrael
• Coincidentally, support for race-conscious policies, such as affirmative action, financial reparations for slavery, and race-based government assistance, have reached record highs.2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in…. From the entry racial
• This was not legal slavery (also known as de jure slavery), but slavery in practice (de facto slavery).2022, Mary Elise Antoine, Enslaved, Indentured, Free: Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800–1850, Wisconsin Historical Society…. From the entry unfairly
• First Wave Antiracism battled slavery and legalized segregation.2021, John H. McWhorter, chapter 1, in Woke Racism, New York: Forum, →ISBN. From the entry antiracism
• The chazeret and maror are bitter herbs that bring tears to the eyes to reflect the slavery in Egypt.2021, Yvonne Riddick, Courage for My Journey from Eternity to Eternity. From the entry chazeret
• In Louisiana, French colonists relied on bossales later than elsewhere as they first imposed the slavery system on Amerindians only.2019, Aline Helg, Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry bossale
• Slavery was going on in America, enslaving the black people.2016, Ray Cashman, quoting Patrick James (“Packy Jim”) McGrath, “Person and Place, Life and Times”, in Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview…. From the entry bigly
• But this is not achieved through the inhuman slavery to logic which defines automatons and whose absence distinguish man.2013, Michael David Levenstein, The End of Knowledge: A Discourse on the Unification of Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: Algora Publishing…. From the entry entelechially
• The backdam is the region on the outskirts of plantations, which many slaves cultivated during and after slavery.2013, “Notes”, in Hanna Garth, editor, Food and Identity in the Caribbean, London; New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury…. From the entry backdam
• Indiana’s Borderlanders called themselves Hoosiers, came from the backcountry of Kentucky and western Virginia, and were ambivalent about slavery.2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 16, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry hoosier
• Slavery was rarely pleasant, but the conditions on St.2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 14. From the entry Saint-Domingue
• Despite the decline of Indian slavery, throughout the eighteenth century South Carolina newspapers frequently advertised for runaway Indian and Afro-Indian slaves.2003, Jayme A. Sokolow, The Great Encounter: Native Peoples and European Settlers in the Americas, 1492-1800, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry Afro-Indian
• In the face of "words so plainly put together," the fact that slavery was neither sin nor abomination was "inconcussible'."1999, Felicity Allen, Jefferson Davis, Unconquerable Heart, page 248. From the entry inconcussible
• In the seventeenth century, the strategy for sugar production, a labor-intensive agro-industry, was to keep the manpower cost down through slavery.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 80. From the entry agroindustry
• The American Blacks' bias against gays is due to our forced socialization into Dixie Christian culture during slavery.1986, Max C. Smith, “By the Year 2000”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 227. From the entry dixie
• He was a living argument on your side — a mind scaithed and a heart hardened by the curse of slavery.1974, Clare Taylor, British and American abolitionists. From the entry scaith

Meaning of slavery

1. noun An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
2. noun Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
3. noun A condition of servitude endured by a slave.

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Questions about slavery in a sentence

How do you use slavery in a sentence?

Slavery is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.”

What is a short sentence with slavery?

“abolition of slavery”

What does slavery mean?

Slavery means an institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.