My devotion, my slavery to this ten-pound daughter greatly amused my friends and neighbors.
Nathalie earnestly, "which, although it may not mean the slavery of the body, like that of the negroes on a plantation, is the slavery of the will.
And what he didn't remember Nathalie did, dwelling at length on the part this leader of men took in freeing the slaves, and what slavery meant to the negroes of the South.
For this reason they shone sadly: that he was without merited reward who had really freed them from the dragons, for Kiss Miklos was now in never-ending slavery to the Lead Friend.
Thou sayest nothing, so I see that thou dost not; therefore this is my word and speech: I will keep thee in endless slavery unless thou bring me the Green Daughter of the Green King.
The agreement between Ahasuerus and Haman was concluded at a carouse, by way of punishment for the crime of the sons of Jacob, who had unmercifully sold their brother Joseph into slavery to the Ishmaelites while eating and drinking.
I hope you are interested in the Slavery question, and in America generally--that cradle of the future.
You may try, but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
If, on the contrary, the last champions of liberty are defeated, centuries of slavery awaited the Christian church.
It is astonishing the interest the people generally take in the slavery question, which is the work of the Methodists, and shows the enormous influence they have in the country.
According to the Mahomedan law, the state of slavery is divided into two conditions--the perfect and absolute, or imperfect and privileged.
He has a grip on this slavery question that no other man in the country can equal.
The pro-slavery and anti-slavery parties were each using every artifice in their power to elect their candidates.
These principles are in eternal antagonism, and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
In a store where the two lads went to buy their provisions they ran into a group of a dozen men or more who were hotly debating the slavery question.
He is a Democrat, and though he claims that he does not care whether 'the cause of slavery be voted up or voted down' he is doing more, perhaps, than any other one man in the Senate to uphold it and increase its power and territory.
The nomination of the man whose anti-slavery speeches were read and quoted from ocean to ocean was a challenge thrown down to the slave-holding States, which responded to it with haughty defiance and the nomination of John C.
Joe's anti-slavery speeches had made him many friends, and it was not long after his admission to the bar before he had a good practice.
But before he was aware of it his blood was up and he was on his feet making a fiery anti-slavery speech.
Do you believe in the abolition of slavery enough to fight for it, Father,--if our country should have to go to war?
Slavery is a curse that no civilized country can exist under.
The movement for the abolition of slavery had its beginning in 1815, with the treaty of Vienna, to which Spain was a party.
When these States declared their independence, they wrote into their Constitutions that all men should be free, that human slavery should be abolished forever from their soil.
The attitude of the United States in the matter of Cuba was determined by the objection to the existence of an anti-slavery State so near our border.
The slaveryquestion was involved, as was the question of the transfer of the island to some Power other than Spain.
Almost from the beginning, slaves had a right to purchase their freedom or change their masters, and long before slavery was abolished they could own property and contract marriage.
On February 26, this body issued a decree proclaiming the abolition of slavery throughout the island, and calling upon those who thus received their freedom to "contribute their efforts to the independence of Cuba.
Of all the scourges that have afflicted the human race," responded my uncle, "slavery is the most detestable!
I am undecided," said Bonaparte, "whether it would be better to maintain or abolish slavery in Louisiana.
This led to the matter being taken up; a suit was instituted; and by a decision of the Court of King's Bench, slavery could no longer exist in England.
His work was to collect information, to spread it on all sides, to agitate the question of the abolition of slavery throughout the United Kingdom and the world.
And the result was the termination of slavery in the British dominions in August 1834, and that, too, at a cost to the country of twenty millions of money as compensation to those who, at the time, were holders of property in slaves.
Now the great object of Clarkson and Wilberforce was to get slavery abolished throughout the British dominions all the world over; in other words, that it should not be lawful for a slave to exist as a slave in any of our possessions.
The hostile armies of the Huns had often reduced to slavery and plundered the inhabitants of the Empire.
It was palpable to the scrutinizing observer, that it was not the sin of slavery which actuated the zeal of Beecher.
By this constitution slavery was recognized as an institution of the State.
In the two hundred years of African slavery the world's progress was greater in the arts and sciences, and in all the appliances promotive of intelligence and human happiness, than in any period of historical time, of five centuries.
They stickle at nothing to accomplish an end; and their preachers can soon convince them that slavery is a sin, and that they are responsible for its existence here, and that they can only propitiate offended Deity by its abolition.
The institution of African slavery served for a long time to aid in continuing the aristocratic features of Virginia society, though it conferred no legal privileges.
We shall dispossess her of at least a third, perhaps the half of her domain; this will open the question of slavery again, and how it is to be settled God only knows.
He only feels the oppression of slaveryin being compelled to work, and none of the moral degradation incident to servility in the higher or superior races.
But if the institution of slavery is of more vital importance than the perpetuation of the Union to the South, she should at once secede and establish a government to protect and preserve this institution.
Then you can change the Constitution and place slavery under the control of Congress--and, under such circumstances, how long will it be permitted to remain in any State?
Prohibit slavery to the inhabitants, and no Southern man will go there; there will be no competition in the purchase of her land.
If, indeed, the discussion of slavery was so hazardous as was pretended, it had been deferred too long already.
Resolved, That Congress ought not to interfere in any way with slavery in the District of Columbia.
In this instance, as in most others, where the merits of slavery are involved, the supporters of that institution manifested a timidity, a want of confidence in its legitimacy, of the most suspicious nature.
Representative after Representative were sent to Congress, who gathered around him, and co-operated with him in his holy warfare against the iron rule which slavery had been enabled to establish in the national Legislature.
The advocates of slavery had committed a fatal error.
Petitions on the subject ofslavery continued to be transmitted to him in increased numbers.
Slavery was not less strongly entrenched behind the bulwark of precedents in the courts of law than in the fixed habits of thought and action among the people.
The anti-slavery enterprise to which I belong started with peace written on its banner.
The sighers for an obedient lower class and the mourners for slavery may get ready their crape and have their pocket-handkerchiefs bordered with black; for they have much weeping to do, and for many years to come.
Is notslavery forever abolished, by the confession of its best friends,--even of those who declare its abolition a misfortune, and themselves ruined in consequence?
We have put Slavery under foot, and with the downfall of Slavery the only obstacle to the success of our great democratic experiment is overthrown, and there seems no limit to the splendid possibilities which it may open before the human race.
The condition of domestic service, however, still retains about it something of the influences from feudal times, and from the near presence of slavery in neighboring States.
Slavery is abolished; the last stain of disgrace is wiped from our national honor.
It is not easy to fix the dates of the rise or fall of this slave-trade; but slavery continued in Venice as late as the fifteenth century, and in earlier ages was so common that every prosperous person had two or three slaves.
In the days of slaverynot very much attention was given to family history and family records--that is, black family records.
Nature made us friends, but slavery made us enemies.
From that moment, I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
Was it slavery to be ruled, wisely and firmly, by a class into which they might themselves rise, a class which education and habit had qualified to rule.
All the fearful word paintings of Dred floated again before our mental vision, and we thanked God that the old horror of slavery is passed, and that the old flag now floats indeed 'o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
A simple diagram, within the reach of all, shows how idle it is to look for any other cause thanslavery as having any material agency in dividing the country.
Many profess to think that Northern fanaticism, as they call it, acted like a mordant in fixing the black dye of slavery in regions which would but for that have washed themselves free of its stain in tears of penitence.
It was in these schools that the work of slavery in robbing the colored women of respect, was undone.
It should be remembered that the two kinds of slavery were by no means identical.
When slavery was introduced into America, it was the universal practice of mankind to enslave.
During slavery all combinations of slaves were sedulously guarded against, and a fear of combinations seems to have been injected into the Negro's very blood.
During the long period of slavery the Negro race was not allowed to use the mind as a weapon in the great 'battle for bread.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slavery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
