I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
slave driver
slave labour
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Cotton was grown using slave labor.
slave labour
the drugs/slave trade
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the country’s thriving drugs trade
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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A pair of giant black slaves pounded drums.
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Some say they included his black slave Sally Hemings and that she bore him four illegal offspring.
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He wondered what she'd do if she ever met a Chinaman or a black slave .
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The constitution they adopted was similar to the United States Constitution; however, property in black slaves was expressly recognized.
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Patsy, looking like the faithful old black mammy slave in a film except that she was white and she was only twenty-five.
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Although the mulattoes had more rights than the black slaves , they were still subject to a series of restrictive laws.
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There was no niche or corner of safety for the free black in a slave society.
fugitive
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Some opposition arose over the proposal to make the governor of the state responsible for insuring the return of fugitive slaves .
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As an additional consequence, fugitive slaves would be free as soon as they crossed the southern boundary of the North.
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Policy was inconsistent in Missouri and Kentucky; some commanders permitted fugitive slaves to remain within their lines and others excluded them.
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The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.
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The pro-slavery compromise of the Constitution which required the rendition of fugitive slaves was abrogated.
■ NOUN
girl
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But she wasn't Jake's little slave girl any more.
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At the end, the uncle finds out that the young slave girl is Lisa.
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These works can be partly seen as a continuation of the nineteenth-century tradition of exotic genre such as depictions of slave girls .
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She kept four slave girls by her; no one else.
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What it was like was being anointed by some slave girl .
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As she did, she saw the young slave girl on the auction block.
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She wasn't his little slave girl any longer.
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Something about the slave girl fascinated Heather as she took in the pink silk dress hugging the curves of her body.
market
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Before they entered the slave market or inspected a slave, many slaveholders had well-developed ideas about what they would find there.
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They were passing the crowded slave market .
owner
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In 1757 Woolman made a second journey into the South, where he found slave owners tense and even hostile to him.
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But the soldiers were used by the slave owners to protect their wealth.
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Earlier, slave owners had at least minimal responsibility for slaves as property.
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This was the first slave she had ever purchased, making her a firsthand slave owner .
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A religious group that could effectively weed out offensive people, the Friends found slave owners sufficiently inoffensive.
population
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Some historians have estimated a slave population in eighth-century Sussex of almost twenty thousand.
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Left to their own devices, the Confederates dealt poorly with the management problem of their enormous hostile slave population .
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This produced a certain cultural and behavioural differentiation in the slave population , among whom language differences must have been highly significant.
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In New Orleans in May 1861, disturbances among the slave population were suppressed by the militia.
revolt
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However, no significant slave revolt took place in the Confederacy as the war progressed.
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Some Union commanders even continued to uphold the antebellum policy of protecting resident slaveholders from slave revolts .
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With its ability to sound the call of slave revolt across the miles, it was simply too dangerous to exist.
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Not many years after these freed men invented their church organization, desperate militants inspired slave revolts .
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Even the accounts of the slave revolt are woven skillfully into the novel.
ship
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A government minister said there had been a mixup, and that another unidentified vessel was the slave ship .
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Woolman was on the examining team that went to the Rhode Island port to see the slave ships at close hand.
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The plan of a slave ship issued by Clarkson was also extensively taken up and became an antislavery print.
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It made me start thinking what it was like on the slave ship .
trade
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These areas need developing, so entrepreneurs pump in investment: capital accumulated from the slave trade , sugar and cotton.
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At the very least, he decided that he personally could shun anything that had to do with slave trade .
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But we do need the slave trade if we're not to go under.
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The society boasts that it has become the most successful single-issue pressure group since William Wilberforce and opposition to the slave trade .
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Equally parliamentarians spoke of cruelty, inhumanity and tyranny as features of the slave trade and slavery, often providing vivid examples.
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Slavery and the slave trade , however, denied self-love to the slave, provoking permanent discontent and possible rebellion.
■ VERB
become
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Thus, a person who becomes a slave loses this opportunity.
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And by the time I was ten, I had become her slave .
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Do not become slaves of men.
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He opened his window and hollered down into the courtyard for the scraggy Monkey-boy who had become his slave .
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As a consequence, those figures became inspirational to other slaves who attempted to emulate them: the Richmond-Molyneux effect.
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There's too much hype connected to most beauty products so I've never become a slave to any particular shampoo.
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Christabel does not achieve enlightenment through this union because she becomes a slave to Geraldine, instead of her equal.
bring
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The defeated were either beheaded or brought back as slaves and their property seized by their captor.
buy
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As they talked about and wrote about buying slaves , slaveholders mapped a world made of slavery.
free
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Second, to free a slave .
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How do we get back the passion that poor immigrant children and newly freed slaves once had for education?
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When the freed slaves landed, they enthusiastically started replicating the lifestyle of their erstwhile masters.
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Months later, Heather freed the slaves and sold the plantation.
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They freed the slaves and got rid of dictators.
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Hopkins was among the first to say that awakening could not truly take over a heart until its owner freed slaves .
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The act freed for ever slaves used by rebels to aid or abet the insurrection of the states.
keep
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Thomas Jefferson became the third president in 1801 despite published accusations of his seducing two married women and keeping a slave mistress.
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Roman nobles kept hundreds of slaves .
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He kept his servants and slaves under such loose supervision that the city fathers complained.
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She kept four slave girls by her; no one else.
sell
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The majority of the survivors were sold as slaves .
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At first, I did not want to sell Xury as a slave , after all our dangerous adventures together.
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Sometimes the Moors sell prisoners in the slave markets.
treat
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They want to treat all Arabs as slaves and second-class citizens.
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She was treated like a slave by her husband who she was forced to marry.
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The servants are treated like slaves .
work
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Nigel's father has worked like a slave to create a modern environment for his family.
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Born free in South Carolina in 1834, Turner refused to work alongside slaves , so he found work as a janitor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because slaves can have their interests counted equitably and still remain in bondage.
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But trade in slaves has been a universal phenomenon, affecting all primitive societies.
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Many intransigent southerners never yielded the notion that the war itself was of no importance if the slave system was not maintained.
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Seder participants recline on pillows, for example, because they had no such luxury as slaves, the children said.
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The slaves rose and backed out of the chamber, their eyes cast down.
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There was a female slave working outside, but when Burun rode up she did not even raise her head.
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These areas need developing, so entrepreneurs pump in investment: capital accumulated from the slave trade, sugar and cotton.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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Because I like you, Breeze, and it makes my blood boil to think of you slaving away as you do.
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You must cease this nonsensical life of yours, slaving away as if you were a servant!
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She spends the next ten years taking in washing, slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it.
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Because you're slaving away in that little office all day doing stupid, piddling little jobs for me!
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Not much, is it, for a lifetime slaving away ?
over
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But after slaving over something for ten years, it is rather nice to show it off a bit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because I like you, Breeze, and it makes my blood boil to think of you slaving away as you do.
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Plus it has an effects loop, and a preamp out for slaving up to other power amps, and so on.
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She spends the next ten years taking in washing, slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it.
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You must cease this nonsensical life of yours, slaving away as if you were a servant!