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Example sentences for "slaves from"

  • In the line, however, of definite legal enactments to stop New England citizens from carrying slaves from Africa to any place in the world, there were, before the Revolution, none.

  • Soon after she bought two Negro slaves from a ship that had come into the Chesapeake Bay, and began life anew.

  • He remarked on the exemption of slaves from duty, whilst every other import was subjected to it, as an inequality that could not fail to strike the commercial sagacity of the Northern and Middle States.

  • Prosecution for attempting abduction of slaves from Washington, D.

  • Many other stations and station-agents that were instrumental in helping large numbers of slaves from bondage to freedom cannot be mentioned here.

  • First, because Shelby had a number of slaves from whom he could select; and I know from personal observation, that it is a universal practice among slaveholders to sell their most worthless and vicious slaves to negro traders.

  • The negro race are then, slaves from necessity, viz.

  • Transportation of slaves from Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, to the extreme Southern States, as a punishment for crime, is not an unfrequent occurrence.

  • One answer is--that it can be used with as much propriety in that case, as in the removal of slaves from Africa--the removal in the one case being no less involuntary than in the other.

  • To the southward the tobacco states, whose industry had reached a somewhat stationary condition, found it a simple matter to prohibit the further importation of slaves from Africa.

  • James Bandinel, Some Account of the Trade in Slaves from Africa (London, 1842), p.

  • The mere show of force, the mere existence of a threat, deterred thousands of ex-slaves from appearing at the polls.

  • The carriage of slaves from Africa to the Southern colonies engaged hundreds of New England's sailors and thousands of pounds of her capital.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already quoted; ardent desire; certain temperature; great antiquity; happy little; heart tells; hundred sacrifices; individual liberty; little speech; mile after; moral judgment; muttered the; night when; own experience; party politics; private detective; slaves from; slaves were; slaves would; sufficient depth; will probably; work which; would listen; your honour