noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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abolish
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It was suspected that he wished to abolish slavery , to found schools, to build roads and to modernize the country.
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The 1787 Constitution, however liberal in tone, did not actually abolish slavery .
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Was the pressure to abolish serfdom and slavery then economic?
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They carried away from him the observation that only women could abolish slavery .
born
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She was born before the turn of the century, so it is likely that her parents had been born into slavery .
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Annie had been born in slavery , and this made her a notable citizen.
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They had been born into slavery , and their parents and grandparents before them.
sell
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Many were sold into slavery by their fathers when they were just 12 or 13.
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Sometimes this was done by Christians selling themselves into slavery .
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Some sell their children into slavery or prostitution.
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During that period he claimed to have been captured by Barbary pirates near Marseilles and sold into slavery in Tunis.
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In the early pages of the Old Testament, Joseph was cruelly treated by his brothers, who sold him into slavery .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Slavery was abolished after the Civil War.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first this seemed strange to some of the staff who saw it as only one step away from slavery .
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Come me little washer lad, come let's away, We're bound down to slavery for fourpence a day.
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He evoked portions of the Bible to justify slavery in a speech he prepared for a debate in the Alabama Senate.
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However, it is a small price to pay for the end of oppression and slavery .
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Madison even helped assure his fellow Virginians that slavery was more secure than ever.
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That the nation must expand into Florida and make it safe for slavery was not questioned.
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The reformers were charged with placing an abstract moralism above the discipline of the historical and present reality of slavery .
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To make this clearer, consider the case of human slavery .