It should not convert into slaves some of the citizens of a nation of free-men.
This was in the teeth of a law of Congress expressly prohibiting slaves in the Navy.
To shun All human converse, here she with her slaves Plying her arts remain'd, and liv'd, and left Her body tenantless.
The stranger was none other than Joel Barlow, Commissioner of the United States to procure the liberation of slaves belonging to that government.
Gulian told me that there are some three thousand slaves owned in the city and its environs.
After the contra-dance was concluded, amid the applause and laughter of the spectators, four young slaves were singled out from the others, and took their places on the floor.
Slaves herd with herded cattle: The dawn grows bright for battle, And if we die, we die not; And if we live, we live.
Darkness round them as iron bound fell off from races of elder name, Slain at sight of her eyes, whose light bids freedom lighten and burn as flame; Night endures not the touch that cures of kingship tyrants, and slaves of shame.
In Shelley's words, slightly varied, "How should slaves produce anything but idleness, even as the seed produces the plant?
On my return to Europe, its tyrants had gathered together all their helots and gladiators to restore the cursed dynasty of the Bourbons, and thousands of slaves went forth to extinguish and exterminate liberty, truth, and justice.
The slaves, freed from the lash, remained slaves as before, only they did very little work.
Yes, the sun of freedom is dawning on the pallid slaves of Europe," etc.
After the victory, the markets of Novgorod were so crowded with Suzdalian slaves that any number could be bought for a marten’s skin.
So, as slaves must work hard, and the Queen of Ev and her children were delicate and tender, I transformed them all into articles of ornament and bric-a-brac and scattered them around the various rooms of my palace.
All the negroes look upon him as a sort of prophet, and certainly his powers of mind are so superior to those of slaves in general, that they may well do so.
In New England they never fight if they can help it, are slaves to their own servants, and make wooden clocks and wooden nutmegs.
Were the slaves to get the mastery, imagination itself cannot picture what would be the result.
In the South they fight duels whenever they can, haveslaves for their servants, and grow tobacco and corn.
They were all attention, and even affection, towards Mr. Byles, who informed me that they had been slaves of his father, but were made free at his death.
Not that an insurrection of the slaves could ever be successful in this country.
One of the most powerful parts of his discourse, as it struck me, was that in which he justified not only slavesthemselves in attempting to escape from bondage, but all those who aided them in their efforts for that purpose.
Uncle Jack clearly intimated, I thought, that the man had been trying to instigate the slavesagainst their masters.
In New England, they never fight if they can help it; are slaves to their own servants, and make wooden clocks and wooden nutmegs.
I suppose you did it because you thought you had no right to make them slaves at first.
Supplied with an army of slaves to wait upon him, the average planter was spared the necessity of exertion.
We are but philosophers, and theslaves of circumstances.
When the lord of the palace killed hisslaves for his amusement, there was no law to condemn him.
The church had received that population as either slaves or serfs.
Many, perhaps most, servants are treated like the slavesin old heathen times.
Some of these slaves in the fourth generation came to my mother and were above the ordinary African and were so dark they evidently had no Caucasian blood.
He owned the slaves that came to him from his father and his wife, but is said never to have purchased any.
Colonel Hawkins brought his own slaves from his old home in North Carolina, and under the right conceded to his office, he opened and cultivated a large plantation at the agency, making immense crops of corn and other provisions.
He was coal-black, and he and his forefathers had been Virginian slaves in Dr.
When the slaves were enfranchised, and slavery abolished, Charlie came to Paris with his master, whose family were ruined by the emancipation, for all their wealth had consisted in their slaves.
This had already occurred in a very great degree in the Saxon serfs of England, who had been slaves of Saxons, for many centuries, before the arrival of the Norman conquerors.
The willing slavesof levity and pleasure; Value that least which claims their reverence.
Those long-winded slavesin "Among the Pines" seemed rather fictitious and literary in comparison.
It struck me more and more, as I examined the expression of the faces of the slaves all over the South, that deep dejection is the prevailing, if not universal, characteristic of the race.
Why did the enemy take off slaves from Tortugas to work for them at Pickens?
The holders, however, are firm, and there have been many paragraphs stating that slaves have contributed to the various funds for state defence, and that they generally show the very best spirit.
That all the slaves are not indifferent to the issues before them, is certain.
In the fields here and there, are the whitewashed, square, wooden huts in which the slaves dwell, looking very like the beginnings of the camp in the Crimea.
They were slaves going off to a dance at the sugar-house; but they were indoor servants, and therefore better off, in the way of clothes than their fellow slaves who labor in the field.
The ebony faces and polished black backs of the slaves were streaming with perspiration as they toiled over boiler, vat and centrifugal driers.
Of course there were no books, for the slaves do not read.
One knew that their slaves would not be condemned to any very hard labor, and that they would be in some sort the inmates of the family, and members of it.
The road passed by plantations smaller and poorer than I have yet seen, belonging to small planters, with only some ten or twelve slaves all told.
If slaves are happy anywhere, they should be so with him.
For Turk, or Smyrniote, or Egyptian to buy and sell slaves seemed rather suited to the eternal fitness of things than otherwise.
Those who taught Greek at Rome were then called grammatici, and they were mostly Greek slaves or liberti.
Let us suppose that the slaves in America were to rise against their masters, and, after gaining some victories, were to sail back in large numbers to some part of Central Africa, beyond the reach of their white enemies or friends.
The oracles of the famous Sibylla of Cumae were written in Greek,(76) and the priests (duoviri sacris faciundis) were allowed to keep two Greek slaves for the purpose of translating these oracles.
They were also employed as slaves in the households of the boyards, especially in the kitchens, which they made 'not less disgusting than the receptacles of swine.
Eighty feet below her the black slaves are working in a fiery pit; ten feet below them is the green sea.
That Indians were sold at Iquitos and elsewhere as slaves and that there was a constant traffic in Indian women has been known to the authorities ever since rubber-gathering began.
The unfortunate slaves in the service of the Peruvian Amazon Company--except the enormous number of involuntary concubines, &c.
It is believed that these Indians were brought here long ago by the Spaniards from the River Vaupes as slaves for the goldmines of Pasto and that, escaping from their captors in this vicinity, they finally settled in the valley.
At the expiration of the ten days the slaves start out with their loads upon their backs, accompanied by their women and children, who help them to carry the rubber.
In this zone two very remarkable consequences follow from the fact that very few slaves are needed for workers.
Nine families of them with their slaves were found there in 1666.
The Ghat caravan happened to have among its slaves a Fellatah, who was at once discovered and set free.
Slaves may not sell any thing without the permission of their master, not even the productions of the waste lands allowed them.
Nevertheless, it was the opinion of every one that only the prompt emancipation of the slaves would save the island from further destruction.
I subjoin for the information of the inhabitants of the United States the directions issued by the Spanish government for the treatment of slavesin Louisiana.
They brought their slaves into this far Northern region and soon protected other fugitiveslaves from the South.
The work throughout necessarily deals with the contact of the Negro with the European, as the African slaves constituted the class of population to be exploited and, of course, were the factor essential to the rise and growth of the company.
Their work among the slaves being especially helpful, the lot of the latter was lightened and masters were no longer allowed to exercise the power of life and death over them.
Secondly, this trade of importing slaves from their native country being much encouraged amongst them, and the white people and their children so generally living without such labor, was frequently the subject of my serious thoughts.
There are some slaveholders, like Bishop Polk of Louisiana, who oblige, and many others who encourage, their slaves to engage in religious exercises, furnishing them certain conveniences for the purpose.
Would any one believe that I am a master of slaves of my own purchase?
They had purchased three slaves to assist in the navigation of the vessel, and Isaaco had engaged Amadi Fatouma to succeed him as interpreter.
News soon arrived that Mahomet Her, with a party of a hundred and ten armed men, in addition to three hundred natives, had made a razzia upon a certain village among the mountains for slaves and cattle.
The bodies of slaves are dragged out of the town and left a prey to vultures and wild beasts in most places; but in Kano they are thrown into the morass or nearest pool of water.
All traded inslaves and generally treated them most harshly.
Colonel Rigby states that nineteen thousand slavesfrom the Nyassa country alone pass annually through the custom-house at Zanzibar.
Thus the three thousand slaveswho were then assembled at Gondokoro would be utterly worthless.
There were seven hundred and fifty slaves in the possession of the merchants who went with it.
Having accomplished these mighty deeds, the army halted for two days, for the purpose of distributing the slaves taken during the expedition.
The Saxon feudalism had been of the most tyrannical character, the owners of slaves making their own laws, and carrying them out with the utmost barbarism.
If this opinion were really accepted as more than a mere figure of flattering oratory, it made those who complied with it mere slaves to the sovereign, however tyrannical or wicked he might prove himself.
Flagellation was not recognised as a legal punishment by the Saxons, though a husband might beat his wife and incur no penalty, while the whipping of slaves was accounted no more than the whipping of animals, and perhaps less.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slaves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
