slave
Example Sentences
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“Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?” he asks the citizens of Rome.
He pays particular attention to the underexamined situation of enslaved people—60% of illegitimate births were to women who had arrived in Florence as slaves.
On Zanzibar in Tanzania Mr. Butler-Gallie regards the juxtaposition of faith and profit where a church stands over a cellar that once imprisoned slaves.
“One of the main themes of the original show was how the ultra-rich and powerful keep a slave class,” DeKnight observed.
From Salon
It is likely that many had been captured months earlier by slave traders in the continent’s interior, a topic that Mr. Kara addresses only briefly.
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