Slavery in example sentence

VG: We call the names and rituals of our ancestors into this room today because from them we received a powerful blueprint for survival, strategies and tactics for healing carried across oceans by African women, passed down to generations of Black women in America who used those skills to navigate institutions of slavery and state-sponsored discrimination in order that we might stand on this stage.

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Coming from a history of sexual violence, slavery and a lack of bodily autonomy.

But if these queer women can come out of a history of, again, sexual violence, slavery, colonization and all manner of traditional, religious and cultural pitfalls, to reconceptualize what sex and pleasure means to them, then you can do it, too.

Many of the children's books promoted to black boys focus on serious topics, like slavery, civil rights and biographies.

And I've played everything from a vengeful ghost in the time of slavery to Secretary of State in 2004.

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