slavery - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- sin: Thus, Christ uses his priceless life to redeem us from the slavery of sin and Satan.
Converse of object
- abolish: Robbins compares the new movement with the early battles to abolish slavery in the 18th century.
- outlaw: Muhammad and his successors were rulers and could have outlawed slavery.
- condemn: Garrison was highly critical of the Church for its refusal to condemn slavery.
- uphold: Horace Greeley: Do your territorial laws uphold slavery?
- oppose: The Quakers were one of the first faith communities to oppose slavery.
- justify: A racist ideology was created to justify slavery and to allow capital accumulation to take place.
Preposition: in
- colony: This included an act for the abolition of slavery in the colonies and the 1833 Factory Act.
- empire: Schama will deal with liberty and slavery in the British Empire, and the American Declaration of Independence.
Adjective modifier
- transatlantic: The conference will focus on the relationship between history, cultural memory and transatlantic slavery.
- colonial: Also, the racial character of colonial slavery was distinct.
- sexual: Young girls are often also forced into sexual slavery to service militia.
- Egyptian: The salt water represents the tears shed during Egyptian slavery.
- virtual: The elite class deceived the working serfs and kept them in virtual slavery.
- domestic: The nation thus becomes the new justification for domestic slavery.
Noun used with modifier
- chattel: It is at least as feeble as the case for chattel slavery.
- wage: I was content to move on to little clients when I told the bosses where to shove their wage slavery.
- plantation: Blackburn reminds us, however, that racial slavery was peculiarly associated with plantation slavery.
- asylum: Nano-science, asylum seeker slavery and more... SchNEWS 477, 10th December, 2004 ZanON and ON and ON!
- seeker: Nano-science, asylum seeker slavery and more... SchNEWS 477, 10th December, 2004 ZanON and ON and ON!
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