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The insect’s first trips west came soon after, as the transatlantic slave trade brought ships packed with enslaved Africans to the New World.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

He is still a slave but he dreams that his children will be "free from the maramba... If we have knowledge, then we are free."

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Southern leaders pushed for territorial expansion – and an expansion of slave states – to ensure they maintained political power at the national level, before they broke off altogether, starting the Civil War.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Her uncle was partially raised by a slave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Justice Sachs sees the remains of a slave ship lying so close to such a beautiful spot as a reminder of the dark side of history.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

The people of South Memphis have suffered through years of pollution from factories in Boxtown, founded by freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Estimates vary as to how many slaves are on Sumba.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Launched in 1966, the carnival celebrates Caribbean culture and the freedom of slaves after emancipation.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

“When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that ‘all men are created equal’ a self-evident truth,” Lincoln wrote in 1855.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

“By 1833 the hired staff was hardly more than one-third of the 1830 count, the balance being made up by slaves from the Hermitage.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

It often means we lose a lot in the edit, scenes that we’ve slaved over, beautifully shot work, prized moments, but his instincts are always, always right.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 15, 2019

On the days my mom slaved over her dissertation on American syncretism, my dad would bring home McDonald’s or Chick-fil-A.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2019

This work that my dad slaved over for 10 years now will have a new life.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2014

But what’s crucial, what gives me some infinitesimal measure of hope, is that this book I wrote and slaved over every day and obsessed over for years will still be out there.

From Salon ● May 12, 2013

For many Hitler Youth, the realization that they had worked and slaved for a criminal cause came about only after a period of many years.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

St. Patrick offered evocative details of slaving and missionary work in the lands around the Irish Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

At the time Bristol was a major slaving port.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2023

Hergé, the illustrator and writer of Tintin and another of my great heroes, once drew a picture of himself slaving at the desk, with Tintin holding a whip over him showing a sort of disdain.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022

Researchers for the center are collecting oral histories in communities on four continents that not only were slaving centers historically, but that are also still affected by that history.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

“Brother? Yes; at the distance of a thousand leagues! Sisters? Yes; slaving amongst strangers! I, wealthy—gorged with gold I never earned and do not merit! You, penniless! Famous equality and fraternisation! Close union! Intimate attachment!”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë