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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

The long exploitation of Indigenous Americans, and the looming power of U.S. slave states on Mexico’s borders, made a ban on slavery both an ethical and a strategic imperative in Mexico’s new constitution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Following this revolt by slaves, abolitionist writings are censored and harsher slave codes are passed.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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

To greatly simplify, the 14th Amendment was originally a response to a Supreme Court decision, the Dred Scott case, that said freed Black slaves could not be U.S. citizens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

There was a ten-year-old law in Pennsylvania that said slaves brought into the state would be free after living there for six months.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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

On the days my mom slaved over her dissertation on American syncretism, my dad would bring home McDonald’s or Chick-fil-A.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2019

My mother slaved for two days, even hiring a cook to assist her.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2017

The house her father slaved away to build for his new bride in the 1930s.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2016

“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

If I had a portrait of Akroma-Ampim to display, I would tell people what I know of him, including his role within a culture and economy of slaving.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2021

I was in the kitchen house slaving over a hot stove when everybody came running by.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver