Slave in example sentence

In that case, the Supreme Court held that African-Americans were not citizens of the United States, and that the 1820 Missouri Compromise – which had staved off civil war by providing a formula for dividing territory between slave and free states – was unconstitutional.

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How can one distinguish a donation that is voluntary and altruistic from one that is forced or coerced from, for example, a submissive spouse, an in-law, a servant, a slave, an employee?

And my family brought in a woman whose mother had been a slave to take care of me.

But you're a slave of that first flash.

It goes from slave trade to over-consumption of sugar with some sweet moments in between.

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