Use "slavery" in a sentence

1. Wanted for human trafficking, prostitution, white slavery and of course, drugs

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2. slavery, end war, when we are focused on the hardships,

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3. was the symbol of my freedom from slavery

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4. reduce the whole manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves, and raise the price of their

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5. She discarded both the hibernation and lost basin theory, believed the part about the slavery, and was amused by his love for Luray

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6. But you are with that agency, the agency that just sold Alan into slavery and Desa into death

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7. Some would say this was an age of peace, others an age of slavery

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8. But YingolNeerie? A land of force and slavery and a life of nothing but a vicious quest for dominance where everyone must constantly strive beyond all possible need? That was a land lost to great evil like the dark lands in the wars of magic

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9. “I was ten when the tavern keeper who pandered Mama sold me into slavery

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10. They were all, or almost all, slaves, but their slavery was of a milder kind than that known among the ancient Greeks and Romans, or even in our West Indian colonies

11. This species of slavery still subsists in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, and other parts of Germany

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12. Slavery continued to take place almost universally for several centuries afterwards, till it was gradually abolished by the joint operation of the two interests above mentioned ; that of the proprietor on the one hand, and that of the sovereign on the other

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13. But however this may have been, the principal attributes of villanage and slavery being thus taken away from them, they now at least became really free, in our present sense of the word freedom

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14. We can celebrate a person who came from slavery with love then why are we still enslaving others in hate and greed

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15. In other countries, rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one ; but in new colonies, the interest of the two superior orders obliges them to treat the inferior one with more generosity and humanity, at least where that inferior one is not in a state of slavery

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16. In their present state of improvement, those prohibitions, perhaps, without cramping their industry, or restraining it from any employment to which it would have gone of its own accord, are only impertinent badges of slavery imposed upon them, without any sufficient reason, by the groundless jealousy of the merchants and manufacturers of the mother country

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17. In ever country where the unfortunate law of slavery is established, the magistrate, when he protects the slave, intermeddles in some measure in the management of the private property of the master ; and, in a free country, where the master is, perhaps, either a member of the colony assembly, or an elector of such a member, he dares not do this but with the greatest caution and circumspection

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18. They believed paying taxes to Rome was the same as slavery

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19. Soon after the Revolution, therefore, it was abolished as a badge of slavery

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20. It is probably upon this account that poll-taxes of all kinds have often been represented as badges of slavery

21. Every tax, however, is, to the person who pays it, a badge, not of slavery, but of liberty

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22. became an outspoken advocate of abolition of slavery in

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23. election campaign was in full swing at that time, and the country was having serious problems with the issue of slavery

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24. The blacks, indeed, who make the greater part of the inhabitants, both of the southern colonies upon the continent and of the West India islands, as they are in a state of slavery, are, no doubt, in a worse condition than the poorest people either in Scotland or Ireland

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25. believer in the Southern cause and in slavery in particular

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26. further, celebrated the end of slavery

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27. understanding as both were opposed to slavery

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28. Having to do with the imposition of slavery in those territories not yet designated states

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29. Now just what does that statement tell us about her mind set? Still mired in slavery? Well, between England and America, we abolished it, and not without cost

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30. Don"t these fools recognize that, slavery has existed in one form or another throughout the entire course of human history (Witness, that the very term comes from the Slavs, who were slaves, and white?)?

31. Either they demand an exorbitant ransom in gold or, less pleasantly, sell the child into some sort of slavery, which is precisely why the little one was brought to Water-Down

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32. Remember, you will be releasing the slaves from inhuman torture and oppressive slavery

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33. Over a thousand prisoners of war were then dragged into slavery to Kumassi, and many of the chiefs, beside the old and infirm, were bound together and burned alive by the savage army of Prempeh

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34. Slavery was/is one such example

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35. Can you imagine what would have happened if the Union gave up? Slavery would have continued and America half of what it is today

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36. The first, and the one I kept reminding myself was the most important, was that until I got sold to a private Master who did not live at Cleaver, I had no way to escape this bondage of slavery

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37. Should America one day recover its moral compass, Abortion will properly stand alongside Slavery as the most glaring examples of moral and spiritual corruption in our nation‘s history

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38. ) He was also a strong believer in slavery and the supremacy of whites over both Blacks and Indians

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39. Lincoln brought an end to California Indian slavery when the Fourteenth Amendment was passed in 1865

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40. ) California's state and local governments had to repeal their laws on Native slavery because of the amendment

41. What: The Haitian Revolution against slavery and French rule and later British and Spanish invasions, the most successful though costly slave revolt in history

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42. Jefferson, once a strong critic of slavery who ended the slave trade into the US, took part in efforts to isolate Haiti, insuring its long history of future poverty

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43. What makes Jefferson's actions on Haiti more appalling was that he spent much of his earlier life fighting, successfully, to end or limit slavery

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44. In 1784, he proposed an ordinance to ban all slavery in US territories, all lands that were not part of the original thirteen states

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45. The Northwest Ordinance, influenced by his bill, passed a year later and three years after banned all slavery in new states above the Ohio River, what would become Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin

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46. But starting in the mid-1780s, Jefferson's position on slavery began to change

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47. The Worst American Presidents on Slavery

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48. What: The genocide of the slave trade and slavery, central to the American economy from colonial times until it was abolished in steps

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49. The Northwest Ordinance banned slavery in new northern states in 1787

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50. Most other northern states banned slavery after the American Revolution

51. The American government and the US Constitution both recognized and protected slavery and the slave trade in the beginning

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52. What is the record of US presidents on slavery? It is not a valid excuse to claim that since slavery was legal it was not considered immoral

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53. Many Americans were strongly opposed to slavery long before it was finally banned

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54. The irony is that American presidents often more strongly opposed slavery at the start of US history, when much of the US public did not yet, and were more likely to be defenders of slavery as the time came close to it being abolished

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55. No one president shares the majority of the blame for slavery or the slave trade, thus this entry was placed at the end of the section on ignoring genocide

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56. He also owned dozens of slaves, but called for ending slavery

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57. Five presidents have the worst records on slavery:

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58. His successor John Tyler not only expanded slavery, he committed treason

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59. As President, Tyler pushed for the annexation of Texas as a slave state, though the war to expand slavery would be provoked by Polk

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60. As congressman, he opposed the Missouri Compromise, believing slavery should be allowed everywhere

61. Polk fought a war with Mexico to expand slavery

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62. More than half of all slave children on Polk's plantation died before fifteen, a high rate even for slavery

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63. Though a slave owner, his sole influence on the slavery question was arguing for California to be admitted as a free state

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64. When slavery advocates called for secession, Taylor publicly threatened to hang them and they backed down

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65. Polk began the war to expand slavery

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66. The US-Mexico War made the Civil War far more likely since it created new states and guaranteed more bitter conflict over slavery

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67. The initial cause of the war was the US annexation of Texas, and “Texans” (most of them had been in the state less than one year) in turn tried to break away to become a US state with slavery

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68. US President Martin Van Buren rejected them, worrying Texas would increase tension over the slavery issue

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69. Polk's war, begun to take territory to expand slavery, almost guaranteed its end

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70. Cotton and tobacco plantations were already less profitable than in the past, and slavery depended more and more on an internal American slave trade now that the international one was banned

71. California was admitted as a free state, though in practice that meant no slavery for Blacks, while Indians were widely enslaved

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72. ) None of the other future US states were practical for plantations, so it was merely a matter of time until slavery could be abolished by vote

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73. Polk's war thus failed at half its intended goal, insuring the continuation of slavery

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74. Whether the war was triggered by events unrelated to slavery, as some historians have argued, is not the overriding question

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75. What: President James Buchanan's weakness, incompetence, defense of slavery, and sympathy for slave owning elites led directly to the Civil War

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76. The US had somewhat stabilized in its debate over slavery

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77. While true, the problem with this claim is it leaves the morally indefensible system of slavery still in place, where it may have continued for at least another twenty years

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78. The Confederacy went to war because they did not agree with the results of a fair election, and started the war because there was an outside chance the lawful winner, Lincoln, might somewhat restrict slavery in the future from expanding

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79. Lincoln explicitly did not get elected to end slavery

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80. Ironically the Confederacy made slavery end sooner, and pushed Lincoln into Emancipation

81. ) He came to office promising to end division over slavery

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82. The Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that slavery could not be restricted anywhere, and Buchanan agreed with the court

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83. Kansas was already being ripped apart over slavery

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84. Both pro and anti slavery factions tried to set up their own governments to declare the state free or slave, using violence against the other

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85. Rather than remain neutral, Buchanan appointed a pro slavery territorial governor, though free staters were the majority

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86. Buchanan approved the fraudulent constitution adopted by pro slavery forces

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87. Other lyrics added to the song during the Civil War changed Key's pro-slavery meaning completely, and celebrated the end of slavery

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88. Although in some instances our government has failed to fulfill its stated promises or delayed its intended designs, the slavery issue quickly comes to mind, our Constitution has proven itself an instrument worthy of our considered opinion(s); a potential source of unrecognized events whose material and spiritual prospects, properly regarded, are possible

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89. Essentially Johnson threw away most of what Unionist fought the Civil War for, ending slavery and punishing treason

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90. These states passed Black Codes, recreating slavery as much as possible

91. Cuban elites trace their roots back to slavery days

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92. In Cuba, slavery survived in the Spanish colony much longer

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93. A final slave revolt at last forced Spain to abolish slavery

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94. One is that Fillmore merely wanted to use the party to promote compromise on the slavery issue

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95. The claim of Fillmore supporting compromise on slavery is just not true

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96. Fillmore also pushed for New Mexico Territory to be open to slavery, even sending federal troops to the territory to pressure abolitionists in Congress

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97. Fillmore's stated, if hypocritical, goal of claiming to run for compromise on the slavery issue failed

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98. Divided by the slightly less than 200 years of slavery starting in colonial times, that comes from 3,300 to a bit under 9,000 deaths a year to bring in under 3,000 slaves a year

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99. Many of the Founding Fathers were ambivalent and hypocritical about slavery, often sharply critical and opposed in theory, but continuing to own many slaves and live off slavery profits

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100. The Constitution recognized and implictitly protected slavery