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Example sentences for "slavery times"

  • I've seen them Ku Klux in slavery times and I've cut a many a grapevine.

  • Boss, you axed me if dey was any sich thing in slavery times as de white men molestin' of de darky wimmen.

  • I don't know anybody 'round here that was born in slavery times 'cept me.

  • I did mighty little work in slavery times.

  • You ask me to tell you something 'bout myself and de slaves in slavery times?

  • I hyard a ole 'oman in Charlotte tell onct 'bout witchin' in slavery times, dar in Mecklenburg County.

  • I wurked on de farm durin' slavery times, among de cotton, corn, an' sugar cane.

  • My folks lived in Scott County near Jackson, Mississippi when I was little and in slavery times too.

  • But their masters gave them theirs in slavery times.

  • Well, I is et many a meal outen dat kittle in slavery times 'cause dat is de very same kittle dat dey used to cook us victuals in when us belonged to ole mars, Tom White, and lived on he place down on de ribber.

  • My mother was treated well in slavery times.

  • That wasn't now; that was in slavery times.

  • Mama was the cook for her missis in slavery times.

  • Murray Mike Lawrence belonged to what he calls "de Murray state" in slavery times.

  • I like it better now dan in slavery times.

  • And about the yard are 'butter and egg' flowers, that were so much in vogue in slavery times.

  • My third master's children learned me my ABC's in slavery times.

  • Eighth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 77 "You want to know what they did in slavery times!

  • I remember down here where Kientz Bros, place is was the gallows where they hung folks in slavery times.

  • In slavery times I had plenty to eat, such as 'twas.

  • I don't member no cullud preachers in slavery times.

  • Hit wus pappy dat haul up de waremelons in de wagin body atter I could 'member, an' dey said dat he haul dem up in slavery times too.

  • In slavery times dey'd have been on de block long time ago.

  • The overseer knocked her in the head in slavery times, and they had to put a silver half-dollar in her head to hold her brains in.

  • Age: 88 "Yes ma'am, I was here in slavery times.

  • Well, in slavery times I helped make the soldiers' clothes.

  • In slavery times I had to rise as early as I could.

  • Never in my life did I hear of a bank in slavery times.

  • Dat was worth more to de South, my grandpap say, dis santification of de white women, than all de cotton and corn dat de Negroes ever makes, in all de years of slavery times.

  • My father told me how they married in slavery times.

  • This is all the 'joyment I have now is to think back in slavery times.

  • I reckon I did live in slavery times--look at my hair.

  • They used to say we what was raisin' up havin' so much easier time an what they had in slavery times.

  • He said it was the custom in slavery times that a slave be given to the son or daughter by the white people when they got married.

  • My marster, in slavery times, lived on de Wateree River.

  • I didn't learn anything at all in slavery times.

  • That is what she was even in slavery times.

  • Oh yes, I was a young lady in slavery times--bred and born in Tennessee.

  • In slavery times my grandma was almost as free as she was in freedom because of her work.

  • But in the South, the present tenant system is much nearer the condition that prevailed in slavery times than it is to the present Northern tenant system.

  • Insanity, almost unknown in slavery times, has appeared and has been increasing among the Negroes of the South at a rate of about 100 per cent.

  • Even in slavery times, the mulattoes were preferred for certain positions, such as overseers, the blacks as field hands.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient philosophy; cattle ranch; each player; fine voice; for the following reasons; living things; many people; move the; not true; police magistrate; slavery abolished; slavery agitation; slavery cause; slavery days; slavery extension; slavery friends; slavery itself; slavery meetings; slavery movement; slavery people; slavery principles; slavery societies; slavery time; slavery were; slavery will; solemn procession