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slave

noun as in one who is the property of another

verb as in work very hard

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The point is made, not for the first time, that for women, slaves and natives, the hope that liberty would be more liberally applied was not fulfilled.

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A firsthand account by an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist and orator, this memoir reframed slavery as coerced labor.

The children of an enslaved person are also enslaved, so I am a slave.

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Wakanda is mythical, but it lacks the problematic history rewrite required to make the forthcoming Viola Davis-starring “The Woman King” and its lionizing of a kingdom built on the slave trade palatable.

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He argued with righteous tenacity that Southerners could be convinced to relinquish their slaves by means of patient “moral suasion.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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