slaves

Example Sentences

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Slaves, he wrote to his brother Brutus, “must soon be free!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

I don’t see Ruth writing “The Slaves of New York”!

From Salon • Aug. 30, 2024

It’s safe to say that the Mauritanian French director Med Hondo’s “West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty” is a unique film.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

“At times whole squadrons of corsairs were cruising off the coast of the United Kingdom,” says Bernard Capp, emeritus professor of history at The University of Warwick and author of British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs.

From National Geographic • Jan. 11, 2024

Slaves were disappearing all the time from the nearby farms and plantations.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry