Slave in example sentence

Abraham Lincoln’s original proposal to end the immoral practice of slavery by compensating slave owners for manumission was unacceptably expensive, so the Union, according to the slave-holding Confederacy, was determined to expropriate the South.

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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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