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Slave in sentence

446 examples of Slave in a sentence

The master is free, but does not feel recognized as a human by the slave.
The master is constantly worried by the fragility of the relationship, and by the fact that the slave is building up an alternative universe of values, in which the master is not represented.
The human slave trade also provided employment, but that was no argument for perpetuating it.
Following the 1814-1815 Congress of Vienna, with its condemnation of slavery, some states applied the concept to slave traders, who also committed many of their crimes outside national jurisdictions.
Moses wandered with his people in the desert for 40 years, until they had rid themselves of the poisonous slave mentality.
But there are already laws on the books against the use of slave labor.
Reason is, he famously wrote, “the slave of the passions.”
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.
Britain’s rise as a global power was accompanied by the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade and the many abuses of colonial rule.
Prominent historical examples include the British East India Company, the Europeans who built vast fortunes based on African slave labor in the West Indies, and coal mine owners.
My earliest memories are of being someone’s slave: my breath was mine, but my body and spirit were not.
Yet traffickers and slave masters are using these same tools to shackle and sexually abuse millions of innocent lives for profit.
Slavery became so deeply enmeshed in American society that only a bloody civil war ended it, in contrast to most other countries, where the African slave trade and slave holding ended peacefully.
As makeshift settlements continue to spring up across the region, gambling, prostitution, human trafficking, slave labor, and violent crime are on the rise, and indigenous and quilombola (Afro-descendant) people are bearing the brunt of the costs.
Just as most of the world has rejected the use of slave or child labor, the permanent destruction of nature must be repudiated.
I feel that it's my duty to be with my husband when he is in trouble, but you wish to hurt me on purpose, you purposely don't want to understand me!''No, this is awful... being a sort of slave!' exclaimed Levin, unable to restrain his annoyance any longer, but immediately conscious that he had dealt a blow to himself.
He wants, first of all, to legitimatize his daughter and to be your husband and have a right to you.''What wife, what slave could be such a slave as I am in my position?'
Why should the worker remain the slave of the master who pays him?
"But every slave has the right to recover his freedom!
If I did, I should be a slave to my opinion.'
She, with her fine eyes opened extraordinarily wide and fastened upon him, seemed like his slave.
'Punish me for my atrocious pride,' she said to him, squeezing him in her arms as though to strangle him; 'you are my master, I am your slave, I must beg pardon upon my knees for having sought to rebel.'
'Yes, you are my master,' she said again, intoxicated with love and joy; 'reign over me for ever, punish your slave severely when she seeks to rebel.'
This evening, 'I am a galley slave,' he said to himself, as he entered it, with a vivacity long unfamiliar to him: 'let us hope that the second letter will be as boring as the first.'
There is not a foot of ground belonging to England, in which a negro would be useful, that has not its slave.
"You have the noble acknowledgment of a gentleman, what more can you obtain from this slave?
A year before, he would have burst into laughter, had he been told he would become the slave of a woman, to the point of risking his tranquillity.
"The love is not the sort your worship is thinking of," said the galley slave; "mine was that I loved a washerwoman's basket of clean linen so well, and held it so close in my embrace, that if the arm of the law had not forced it from me, I should never have let it go of my own will to this moment; I was caught in the act, there was no occasion for torture, the case was settled, they treated me to a hundred lashes on the back, and three years of gurapas besides, and that was the end of it."
"Gurapas are galleys," answered the galley slave, who was a young man of about four-and-twenty, and said he was a native of Piedrahita.
"What!" said Don Quixote, "for being musicians and singers are people sent to the galleys too?""Yes, sir," answered the galley slave, "for there is nothing worse than singing under suffering."
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