Slavery in example sentence

The Power of MonumentsNEW YORK – The ghastly spectacle last month of neo-Nazis marching through Charlottesville, Virginia, carrying torches and barking slogans about the supremacy of the white race, was sparked by the city’s plans to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the leader of the Confederate army, which fought to retain slavery in the secessionist South during the American Civil War.

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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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