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Example sentences for "former slave"

  • Wed For Economic Reasons Although 94 years of living have dimmed her eyes a bit and the burdens she's packed through the years have bent her wiry frame Ann Ulrich Evans, a former slave, is still able to carry on.

  • Dave Is Cardinal Fan Dave Harper, a former slave, had just tuned in on the baseball game when the interviewer arrived for he is an ardent Cardinal fan and, although he was extremely courteous, he never missed a play in that game.

  • However, James Wilson, a former slave living in a single room in the rear of 917 O'Fallon Street seemingly takes this little matter of a lonely existence in his stride.

  • I got in conversation with a former slave dealer, and we had rather an exciting time.

  • Jones, a native of Tennessee, a former slave of John Jones, a Tennessee planter.

  • He was freed by the emancuapation proclamation, and soon met and married Sadie Scott, former Slave of Mr. Scott, a Tennessee planter.

  • The story is told by Thomas, former slave of the Diard family.

  • Harper, Birmingham Living with her grandchildren at 801 Washington Avenue, Birmingham, Alabama, Esther King Casey, former slave of Capt.

  • De Yankees come through de plantation on Sunday," said Hannah Murphy, a former slave on a Georgia plantation.

  • We used to have big parties sometime," said Fannie Fulcher, a former slave on Dr.

  • Augustus Burden, a former slave on General Walker's plantation at Windsor Springs, Ga.

  • The plantation owned by the late president of the Confederacy adjoined the Hurricane, and was called Brierfield plantation," said the aged colored man and former slave who is now a prosperous banker in the town he founded.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    assume command; country town; eight hundred; former birth; former chapter; former chapters; former experience; former lecture; former letters; former navigators; former note; former occasion; former place; former president; former slave; former time; former times; former volume; former voyage; formerly called; formerly supposed; getting late; gray stone; obtained only; only once; pulled down