How to Use slavery in a Sentence

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  • My dad put up with the slavery of working in the coal mines every day of his adult life.
  • Frederick Douglass was central advocate for the abolition of slavery.
  • The school is one of hundreds around the world to confront the role of slavery in its past.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The chef explains what slavery has to do with this during the meal.
    — Brett Anderson, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • In Exodus, God led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to a land of milk and honey.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • The course starts with the origins of the African diaspora and sweeps through the epochs of slavery, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The narrative of William Wells Brown tells the story of his escape from slavery.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
  • This has been ingrained in our culture, dating back to the time of slavery in this country.
    — Omer Awan, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Along with that, of course, comes the ideology of bringing slavery along with it.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
  • Trevelyan went to her editor at the BBC and asked to report a piece on her family and the painful legacy of slavery.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • A lot of my work has always been inspired by the quest for freedom through, during, and after slavery in the United States.
    — Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The history of the Bray School and the stories of the children who were students there is a window into their lives beyond slavery.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 28 Mar. 2024
  • As such, the film depicts the harrowing truths of the way that caste systems are upheld, from slavery to lynching to genocide.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Nikki Haley’s failure to mention slavery as a cause of the conflict.
    — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • At the age of 4, he was taken from his mother when his parents divorced and forced into slavery on a cacao farm.
    — Kirk Feller, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Hearing how many different ways slavery harmed us has been crazy.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 10 May 2023
  • Each tour is unique, with topics ranging from the architecture of the Lawn to slavery at the university.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
  • There are achievements in the way of having overcome slavery and torture—for the most part, by no means entirely, but seeing it as bad.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Moor, donning a yellow dashiki with a long gold rope chain, strolls around the classroom discussing how Black consciousness has evolved since the end of slavery.
    — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • This chasm has deep roots going all the way back to slavery, according to experts and civil rights activists interviewed in the film.
    — Stanley Nelson, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Even after the abolition of slavery, Junkanoo lore persisted and evolved.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Heirs’ property, a legacy of slavery’s aftermath across the Deep South, is under threat throughout the Black Belt.
    — James Pollard, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • But the truth is that slavery fueled the growth of so many of our contemporary institutions around us today.
    — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • Born into slavery in Arkansas, he was forced by his owner to fight on the Confederate side of the Civil War.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
  • So in many regards, heal the wounds that had been inflicted upon African-Americans at the height of slavery in this country, and that was a long and arduous process.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
  • That’s how much money a new report suggests the Church of England should invest in a fund to address its historical ties to slavery.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • But as a man of the cloth, Berkeley had some strident views that went beyond contemporary acceptance of slavery.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • Haley, meanwhile, quickly acknowledged that slavery was, of course, the war’s central cause.
    — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The measure authorizes a commission to examine the history of slavery and its legacy, the scale of the slave trade in the United States and the treatment of enslaved people.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023

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