slave
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In 1852, speaking as a Black man to a white audience, Douglass famously asked “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?”
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 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
Meanwhile, the Deep South consisted of a landowning class, some of whom relocated from slave plantations in the Caribbean, who formed an "oligarchic, top-down society".
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Her uncle was partially raised by a slave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Florida is admitted as the twenty-seventh state, a slave state.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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
A project called “Last Seen: Finding Families After Slavery” has compiled thousand of ads taken out in hundreds of newspapers nationwide between the 1830s and 1920s by former slaves searching for loved ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Natives who had lost their lives in the white man’s push across the continent rubbed elbows with runaway slaves who never tasted freedom until their last breath.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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
The famous staircase, the kitchen where Alice merrily slaved away, the bedrooms — all were built on a sound stage, making our memories of the house as real as anything else on the show.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2019
The people who served and quite literally slaved under the merchant class had little chance at accessing knowledge in those books and libraries and experiencing democracy in any real way.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2015
Kee slaved away on features about the way Britain was shaping up for the future and trying to live down its colonial past.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2013
“He’s slaved for many years; hard work should be rewarded.”
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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
Chefs rarely get Christmas off - if they are not cooking for customers, they are slaving over a hot stove for family.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022
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
“It’s about time; they’ve been slaving and grinding so hard and not being able to reap those benefits,” De La Haye said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021
I thought of quiet Hatun, my older brother, slaving away on the distant roads.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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