SLAVERY


Meaning of SLAVERY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

abolish

It was suspected that he wished to abolish slavery , to found schools, to build roads and to modernize the country.

The 1787 Constitution, however liberal in tone, did not actually abolish slavery .

Was the pressure to abolish serfdom and slavery then economic?

They carried away from him the observation that only women could abolish slavery .

born

She was born before the turn of the century, so it is likely that her parents had been born into slavery .

Annie had been born in slavery , and this made her a notable citizen.

They had been born into slavery , and their parents and grandparents before them.

sell

Many were sold into slavery by their fathers when they were just 12 or 13.

Sometimes this was done by Christians selling themselves into slavery .

Some sell their children into slavery or prostitution.

During that period he claimed to have been captured by Barbary pirates near Marseilles and sold into slavery in Tunis.

In the early pages of the Old Testament, Joseph was cruelly treated by his brothers, who sold him into slavery .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Slavery was abolished after the Civil War.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At first this seemed strange to some of the staff who saw it as only one step away from slavery .

Come me little washer lad, come let's away, We're bound down to slavery for fourpence a day.

He evoked portions of the Bible to justify slavery in a speech he prepared for a debate in the Alabama Senate.

However, it is a small price to pay for the end of oppression and slavery .

Madison even helped assure his fellow Virginians that slavery was more secure than ever.

That the nation must expand into Florida and make it safe for slavery was not questioned.

The reformers were charged with placing an abstract moralism above the discipline of the historical and present reality of slavery .

To make this clearer, consider the case of human slavery .

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