Which preposition to use with slave
I asked if he did not think it probable that some of the nations in the interior of Africa were more advanced in civilization than those on the coast, whose barbarous custom of making slaves of their prisoners, Europeans had encouraged and perpetuated, by purchasing them.
When we try to realize what work is, when it is merely an amount of toil prodded out of man or woman by a hard taskmaster, we have only to look back to the bondage of Israel in Egypt, or to the time of Scylla, when there were thirteen million slaves in Italy alone: slaves whose set tasks were of over two hundred and fifty kinds; who worked on the road-building, on public works, and in rowing in the galleys of the slave-propelled ships.
He was most indignant"How could women be so foolishwhy did we want to have abnormally small waists and be slaves to our dressmakers?men didn't like made-up figures."
Early and primitive wars were for thisto raid crops and cattle, to carry off slaves on whose toil the conquerors could subsist; and the latest wars are the same.
In the meantime Mr. Bishop had coaxed some of the slaves from Ekenge to help.
I've lost your father on the success I slaved for.
" "What would you wishif it were under your feet, with its slaves at your command?" "I should whisk you all offNorthinstanter.
Carleton was disposed to consider slaves as human beings, though slavery was still the law in the British oversea dominions, and so the Americans felt uneasy lest he might discriminate between their slaves and other chattels.
Her husband worked like a slave with the heart of a king.
There's no vacation for the paper, no hyphens, no skipping a day or two if it has a bad cold; it's the tyrant that leads its slaves by the nose, metaphorically, and has no conscience.
First modern importation of negro slaves into Europe.
I cared nothing because you were a prisoner, a bound slave under sentence.
In four of these, the rate of mortality is higher among the male slaves than among the colored soldiers; but in all the others, this rate is higher in the army.
She had to look like the kind of person who would happily have the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow destroyed, or take an innocent little girl as her slave without remorse.
"That would necessarily involve change of residence," remarked the Signor; "for the laws of Georgia forbid the manumission of slaves within the State.
The daily task of each able-bodied slave during the cotton picking season war 250 pounds or more, and all those who did not come up to the required amount would get a whipping.
Dick was right, nevertheless; for his people had been slaves among the very earliest Dutch settlers, and had never "lived South" at all.
He bestowed freedom on slaves after six years of service.
But when I mention these instances of improvement, I must be careful to distinguish what I mean;I do not intend to say, that there were no instances of humane treatment of the slaves before the abolition of the slave trade.
But this hope of mine was soon taken away; for when he went to sea, he left me on shore to look after his little garden, and do the common drudgery of slaves about his house; and when he came home again from his cruise, he ordered me to lie in the cabin to look after the ship.
One feels, neaw 'at times are so nippin', A mon's at a troublesome schoo', That slaves like a horse for a livin', An, flings it away like a foo;
Thus crammed together like herrings in a barrel, they contracted putrid and fatal disorders; so that they who came to inspect them in a morning had occasionally to pick dead slaves out of their rows, and to unchain their carcasses from the bodies of their wretched fellow-sufferers, to whom they had been fastened.
Poison, I have always said, is the protection of the household slave against the domestic tyrant.
O Stranger! were our Lord to agree with your Society, and abolish the traffic in slaves throughout his dominions, all the people would rise up against him in revolt, and the Sultan would be the first to have his head cut off.
[Footnote 25: This code provided that all male Negroes under fifteen, years of age either owned or acquired must remain in servitude until they reached the age of thirty-five and female slaves until thirty-two.