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slav·ery [ˈsleɪvəri] N no pl

slavery

slavery

hlapčevstvo n fig

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Men were sold into slavery in exchange for horses with a ratio of ten men for one horse. en.wikipedia.org

Population moved west, and more farms (and more slavery) were established. en.wikipedia.org

The southerners had always felt that their northern colleagues must toe the southern line on all slavery-related issues. en.wikipedia.org

Later, she is arrested and sold into slavery. en.wikipedia.org

Because of his unpopular stance (in the south) on the issue of slavery in new territories, he decided not to run for reelection in 1848. en.wikipedia.org

He's a black man, born into slavery, and then he rises higher than any black man rose in a white society before our own time. en.wikipedia.org

The cause of that war was because there was a people that were black in skin and color who had always been in slavery. en.wikipedia.org

She rejects her brother's slavery to the point of a futile attack on the overseer. en.wikipedia.org

Was the use of violence to oppose the violence of slavery and the breaking of proslavery laws morally defensible? en.wikipedia.org

He was raised in a family that valued hard work, plain dress, temperance and sympathy for the unfortunate and opposed slavery and social gilded livery. en.wikipedia.org

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