I shake my head and point him toward the back of the school, through the trees to the old slave cabin. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The wife of the eldest son was faithful and she conceived and bore and conceived and bore regularly and faithfully, and each child as it was born had its slave. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“There is no price. I tell you it will obey you, serve you as your slave.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s good old torture—standard practice for slaves giving evidence in the Athenian courts.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Donald had provided aid to slaves his whole life, whenever possible and with whatever means at hand, ever since he was a small boy and misdirected some bounty men who badgered him over a runaway. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His trick: Don’t speculate where the slave is headed next. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The sugar story in the United States centered on Louisiana—though even supposedly free states like New York made fortunes in transporting and selling sugar grown by slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She relinquished the location to the house in the woods when the slave catcher put his pistol to her eye. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

From the courtyard, she could hear the other slaves shuffling toward the wooden building where they slept. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He turned to his companion, David Herold, and objected to the idea that blacks and former slaves would become voting citizens. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an apprentice he was little more than a slave until he had served his master seven years. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That might be because my great-great-grandmother came from India as a slave. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those extra people helped make the slave trade possible.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You were born to it? Like a slave?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“But it’s high up in the hills,” said the slave. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The ones who excavated a million tons of rock and dirt, toiled in the belly of the earth for the deliverance of slaves like her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My mother sewed in the kitchen with the other slaves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A brand-new slave for a whole new kind of man. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves spoke through the testimony of the very men who had gone to fight them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

So many sugar plantations dotted the landscape that slaves called commanders managed other slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It's not hard to tell. I’ve seen a hundred slaves come and go. Resistance fighters are always different. Never broken. At least not when they first arrive. They have...hope.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

This same story about a slave named Tice Davids was being told in the Big House, too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll vow to stay a slave until I have the information he wants. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Plato and Aristotle were comfortable in a slave society. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The English had stopped the slave trade, but the rulers of a sugar colony were not yet ready to listen to slaves demanding to be treated as full human beings. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She wore a clinging green taffeta dress and high-heeled shoes, and when she danced dozens of slave bracelets clinked on her wrists. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

These slaves understand his words, but still they stand and stare. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would they really give you a hundred dollars for turning in a runaway slave? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The woman answered in her plain voice, “I have been kitchen slave since I went into the House of Hwang. There were meats at every meal.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He was one generation removed from a slave ship, living in a country best described as an African penal colony, and he was a free man, with every benefit of education. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When die supreme commander Yurkhaz zo Yunzak departed, supported by a pair of burly slaves, that seemed to be a general signal for the other guests to take their leaves as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was working out of a casual labor agency—we regulars called it a slave market. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were neither slaves nor slavers, but free Myrmen and seasoned sailors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was the largest group that she had ever conducted, but she was determined that more and more slaves should know what freedom was like. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Albert’s will said nothing of his relation to his heirs, but folks in Lacks Town knew they were children he’d had with a former slave named Maria. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And then after a pause she said, “I saw not one slave with a new coat like mine.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Danger to her own person was the first thing she had learned to see, back when she was still half a child, a slave girl bound for life to the great red temple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He said, “Keep cool, homeboy, and come back tomorrow. Some of the cats will turn you up a slave.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And his skin was perfect and tan, but that came again from slaving; in the sun all day, who wouldn’t be tan? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many abolitionists wanted to free the slaves but didn’t want black people living nearby. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Books like the one by Frederick Olmstead opened my eyes to the horrors suffered when the slave was landed in the United States. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher allowed his prisoners an equal share of the food, a custom dating to his earliest days in the job. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The slave girl did the same, almost at the same moment. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd had formed around three slaves taken whilst trying to escape. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Southern slaveholding colonies would agree to form a union only on the condition that the federal government would not be able to interfere with the right to own slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“When I was a lad I had no such melancholy and no such weepings and tempers, and no slaves, either.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Strict separation of the races would have threatened slaveholders’ immediate interests and was, in any event, wholly unnecessary as a means of creating social distance or establishing the inferior status of slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But there is not that about three rooms and two meals a day to keep busy a woman who has been a slave in a great house and who has worked from dawn until midnight. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“So the Romans fought on the Confederate side? As a girl whose grandmother was a slave, can I just say...not cool?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The master had sold about as many slaves as he could sell without having to shut down his farming,” Miss Pat said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under him served four mates, freedmen all, and fifty slaves bound to the ship, each with a crude version of the cog’s figurehead tattooed upon one cheek. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

People have forgotten about Water Island since the days when there were slaves. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he got onto his second favorite thing to bump his gums about, slaves and what horrible beasts they is. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

If Char knew, really knew, what girls like Akeelma went through, she wouldn’t be talking down slaves. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

"And who's finished up the better off? Me, of course. I'm sitting pretty in a nice house with a successful businessman and you're left slaving away teaching a lot of nasty little children the ABC." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Islands have a long and complex cultural history, but are most known for their rich African-American heritage as white plantation owners left the islands in the 19th century leaving their slaves behind. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We in South Africa had never been called slaves, though, all along, day in and day out, we had been treated worse than slaves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once there’s mouths to feed,” he’d say to me, “you’re a slave for life. You work till you drop down dead, just to feed your children.” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Their cruelty had no limit—they preferred to kill their slaves rather than fear them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The four cage slaves were swiftly disposed of, but Julius had to be kept alive until Caesar decided on a suitable fate for him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

And someone spoke of Denmark Vesey: “We are slaves.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within that gate in the wall through which he would pass stood the great house where the woman had been a slave girl since her childhood, the House of Hwang. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Caesar told the children how he got the small scar over his eyebrow, dragging a finger across it: He was caught by a slave catcher in North Carolina but got free. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He would kill me and throw me to the crocodiles, or sell me for a slave as he is always threatening, or... The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I know why the Sealord seized the Goodheart. She was carrying slaves. Hundreds of slaves, women and children, roped together in her hold.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She knew that Amari had learned that, when not given a direct order, a slave’s best bet was to say nothing. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Echoing Dr. Gazzaley, she said she was thrilled at the idea of turning the tables on the technology, making it a slave in new ways rather than have it challenge the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Of all the slaves of the Dark Lord, only the Nazgûl could have warned him of the peril that crept, small but indomitable, into the very heart of his guarded realm. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When he had finished, and his master had shown the king the stolen cup, some of the lords of the court cried out that the slave should be offered to the Firedrake as a sacrifice. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held out his cup, and a slave filled it with fermented mare's milk, sour-smelling and thick with clots. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He began to see civilians: important people in very good clothes, some sleek carriages, many slaves. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not have to run errands for my father’s tyrant mother with the bound feet or thread needles for the old ladies, but neither would there be slaves and nieces to wait on her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don't need to remind anyone here, there's no dignity to be had in being a slave. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Under the terms of our country’s founding document, slaves were defined as three-fifths of a person not a real, whole human being. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“After all we’ve slaved for these three years,” his father said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most lived in rural country and were eager to put a stake in the lush ground, no longer as slaves but as farmers of their own land. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But showing kindness to a slave will only bring the Black Guard down on me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In spite of all his warnings to Kevin of the dangers of owning educated, Northern-born slaves, he wanted to buy me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I have spent the past two days in chains, underground, slaving for a monster. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When he determined that a slave deserved punishment, he experimented with new forms of torture. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

One hundred thirty-one slaves, in and around Charleston, were arrested. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that year the animals worked like slaves. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The slaves and the Khoisan intermarried, and the white colonists continued to dip in and take their liberties, and over time the Khoisan all but disappeared from South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Beyond her walls the yellow tents of the Yunkai’i stood in orderly rows beside the sea, protected by the ditches their slaves had dug for them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And after they were slain and all their slaves were freed,” she said heavily, “there was still the nursery, and a future full of terrible, unguessable magic.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You are no longer slaves, doomed to die at a master’s whim. I freed you. Why should you wish to end your lives upon the scarlet sands?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Reconstruction is most typically described as stretching from 1863, when the North freed the slaves, to 1877, when it abandoned them and withdrew federal troops from the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Teenie paused, then said, “For me, it was the overseer, Willie Badgett. Eventually, they gets tired of you and moves on—but the terribleness of it just goes to another slave woman.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Caesar’s cabin, in the next cabins over, and in every slave village near and far. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

More slaves and the iron to hold them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As slaves we were this country’s first windfall, the down payment on its freedom. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Her husband, William, who was dark, played the role of her slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was all white people ’cause the people who were slaves waren’t allowed to go from place to place. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She said I would grow up a wife and a slave, but she taught me the song of the warrior woman, Fa Mu Lan. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They lie. When the British fled Boston, back in the spring, they took escaping slaves with them. They promised them freeeeeeedom.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early in the nineteenth century, the dream of freedom had begun spreading through the slave cabins on all the plantations. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Ticknor Curtis, the United States Commissioner, who presided at the hearing, decided that Sims, who was a fugitive slave, must be returned to his owner in Georgia. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Americans and many Europeans equate native Africans with blacks, white Africans with recent intruders, and African racial history with the story of European colonialism and slave trading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose it’s common gossip among the slaves that the animal had to be castrated. Well, and quite right too. The Emperor is too wise to take risks.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, I didn’t see how even someone much wiser than I was in the ways of the time could escape from Louisiana, surrounded as they would be by water and slave states. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“And...is there a black girl, maybe a slave girl, named Alice living around here somewhere?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Another man was a day from home when he espied the slave patrol approaching upon the road; and he repaired into a yard and split wood until they passed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Thereafter she alternated between the former masters and the former slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A skinny, slippery-looking old black slave in the kitchen told him Mr. Hancock was in bed with a headache. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s all about teaching stuff we don’t necessarily learn in our textbooks. Like today we learned about York—the black slave who traveled with Lewis and Clark.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t occurred to me that she didn’t realize she was a slave. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We see in our daily lives that some of the conquered peoples continue to form an underclass, centuries after the conquests or slave imports took place. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He talked about the slave who protested when Denmark had said that all men were equal. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slave girl frowned and shook her head forcefully. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You remember my slave ship after all this time?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was how Mrs. half-jokingly said, “The slaves have been freed, Delphine,” whenever she saw me doing things the long, hard way. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And she turned to Cuckoo and said, “Take this slave and give her to him.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In parts of Africa little boys were still stolen away by adult slave traders and sold for money to men who disemboweled them and ate them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Zeus, greatly angered in his turn, condemned Apollo to serve King Admetus as a slave—for a period which is differently given as one or nine years. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not clear whether they were slaves or indentured servants, which means they would have to work for a number of years and then they would be free. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He started another settlement and went back to Spain, this time kidnapping four hundred Arawak people to serve as slaves. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn we dragged our ships to the lordly water, stowed aboard all our plunder and the slave women in their low hip girdles. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to realize that I should have resisted, should have refused to let Fowler bring me out here where only other slaves could see what happened to me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The master whistled and two patrollers ushered the prostrate slave from the premises. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“The faces of brown and black that I see—are they slaves?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves called up to us, “That the island?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Occasionally the victims were slaves and criminals, but mainly they were prisoners of war. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They brought the slave to Beowulf, and he told his story. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next we went to check on the house where the slaves we’d caught on the street was s’posed to be living. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I stands corrected. I ain’t never had nothing to do with slaving.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

A mockingbird trilled a note from where it perched upon the hand of the moonlit Founder, flipping its moon-mad tail above the head of the eternally kneeling slave. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If Hagar had been a boy, I would have called her Ishmael. In the Bible, people might be slaves for a while, but they didn’t have to stay slaves.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

While the other girls grumbled that their piece rates had dropped so that it had hardly been worth slaving through the summer heat, she kept her silence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves were fed, given water, and even supplied with extra water in small basins with which to bathe. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not difficult to imagine the sequence when the slave cast off his chains in pursuit of freedom—and retribution. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“And it reminds them in a very special way who is the master and who is the slave.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Homer came to the back of the wagon with a lantern and revealed Ridgeway’s face, the slave catcher was staring at her with untempered fury. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A princess, she thought, but she remembered what the girl had said, how Khal Drogo was so rich even his slaves wore golden collars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A slave had no rights, and certainly no excuse for striking a white man. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Captain looked so somber, I could almost imagine I was an Egyptian slave taking Pharaoh on a tour of the flooded Nile Delta. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

People walking under the shade of the sycamores across the street paused at the sight of a slave running away from a mansion where a woman was screaming. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father was a slave, and they sold him away from her. She said marrying a slave is almost bad as being a slave.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Those teenagers made up seven to eight out of every ten slaves brought to Americas sugar Hell. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was to these gods that the slaves had prayed to preserve a shred of their souls. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Latin for “slave” — servus — as rendered in English literally is “the spared one”; slaves being those taken prisoner in battle, who should, therefore, by all the rules of engagement, have been slain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He openly condemned the rich for their oppression of the poor and inspired an alliance of white and black bond laborers, as well as slaves, who demanded an end to their servitude. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Started on a shoestring in 1898 by a former slave, the life insurance company grew vigorously, spinning off a black-owned bank and a fire insurance company. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was humiliating beyond measure to have attention called to those welts, lying there across his back like the mark of the slave. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was easy to see that that shook the slave woman up; her face never changed, but her voice was shaking when she said, “You do what you gotta.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He needed no less than a rebel version of the Underground Railroad that transported runaway slaves north to freedom. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father had stirred himself, then, and gone to the House of Hwang and asked if there were a slave to spare. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway became a proper slave catcher after his first trip to New Jersey, when he went up to retrieve the property of a local planter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The last scene depicted the slave on his master’s doorstep, having once again run away, this time from the false promises of the Free States. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Some slaves saw the light and come in and I say I’m Richard Richards and this here was my sheep and did they wish a leg? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The whole world would be a few masters and millions upon millions of slaves. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The stigma of race was once the shame of the slave; then it was the shame of the second-class citizen; today the stigma of race is the shame of the criminal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He could hardly expect a slave girl to know the significance of their environs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Special knowledge did not make a slave any less a slave—you were neither freed or paid. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then I looked away, remembering that I was supposed to be a slave. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you up in this house talking about ‘slaves,’” she says. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not say it to rouse pity in you for the black men who were slaves for two and one-half centuries. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He took Caesar into his confidence, risking that the slave might inform on him for a reward. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Most of those gathered at the meeting had been slaves at one time and knew how oppressive some of the whites around them could be. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The air was fragrant with the smell of roasted meat and spices, and a slave girl with a turtle on one cheek was pouring pale green wine. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Ajarry planted there, soon after her long march to the plantation, the plot was a rumble of dirt and scrub behind her cabin, at the end of the line of slave quarters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

So Noah cursed all Ham’s children to be slaves for ever and ever. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the Civil War really rich white people lived in the mansions and owned slaves. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Rhode Island don’t import slaves, not for two years now,” Jenny said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sorry if I’m seeming bold, ma’am, I ain’t intending to, but I know with you having someone what was ’slaved down home, you understand.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And in an instant the slave appeared leading by the hand a square, rather tall figure, clothed in clean blue cotton coat and trousers. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When the slaves learned that they were to be sold, they ran away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Democrats were popular among White southerners because the party had pushed for leniency toward the Confederacy and had supported efforts to deny former slaves the vote. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few yards away, six ofYezzan’s slave soldiers were squatting in the dust, throwing the bones and passing a wineskin j from hand to hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“My homeboy,” he’d say, “he’s looking fora slave if you hear anything.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lena continued, “And Noah, that slave she brought with her, I heard tell she got legal papers all writ up for him, so when she die, he be free.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A few months back,” Inez told them, “we had ’bout twenty escaped slaves come here from Georgia Colony. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What y’all want?” a wrinkled, skinny slave sitting on the bank of the river asked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted her to join him in this project so that she could lead the slaves to Canada. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slave girl watched Polly carefully, then grabbed her own stomach. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she listened to the stories that Still told, she came to the conclusion that almost any slave who had the courage to run away was certain to reach his destination—the North. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horses were being led by a strange man, an armed man pretty handsomely dressed like an upper slave in a great family. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by a small garden where vegetables were already growing, the dwelling was much larger than the slave shack she had shared with Polly back at Derbyshire Farms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lived by herself in the old slave quarters out past Granddaddy’s laboratory, and though it had once housed a dozen or so slaves, it was the perfect size for one person. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sugarcane plantations stretched in all directions, worked by imported slaves and native Arawak Indians who were pressed into service by Dutch and Portuguese plantation owners. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The young lords had not seen, then, beyond that plain face of the kitchen slave. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Z would rather sleep in a ditch than become slave labor for anyone. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was a rambler out of South Carolina and found his way to slave catching after a hardscrabble sequence: dockhand, collection agent, gravedigger. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I liked to mention that I was the great-great-granddaughter of a slave named Jim Robinson, who was probably buried in an unmarked grave somewhere on a South Carolina plantation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Dany climbed off her silver and gave the reins to one of the slaves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She saw slaves carrying bolts of intricate Myrish lace and fine wools in a dozen rich colors. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Good to have sons. But it’s so hard to see them be slaves.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand slaves lifted bloodstained hands as die raced by on her silver, riding like die wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Were they going to be slaves for the rest of their lives? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some scholars and commentators have pointed out that the racial violence once associated with brutal slave masters or the Ku Klux Klan has been replaced, to some extent, by violence perpetrated by the state. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the streams of fleeing slaves became rivers of newly freed southern blacks entering Chicago each day. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s your stomach. If you want to make a slave of yourself to your business, it’s all right with me.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was ... Elza, it might have been. Or Ella. It was six years ago she died. I have owned so many slaves, Your Grace.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In December, 184.9, most of the speeches made in Congress dealt 'with the need for a more stringent fugitive slave law. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher got into the wagon for the first time since he picked up Cora. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She might also have held them as slaves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Polly that the slave girl curled in a corner of the wagon would never stop crying. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caesar strung up by the grinning mob; Caesar a brutalized mess on the floor of the slave catcher’s wagon, halfway back to Randall and the waiting punishments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That was how we came to spend two hours every afternoon slaving for the Captain. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We awoke before dawn to the sound of horns blown on plantations to call the slaves to toil. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Years and years the son-in-law slaved to pay for his wife. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I got there, three slaves were already being added to the line. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

What she didn’t tell him was that she couldn’t bear to touch the thing, so she had given the blanket to Sara Jane, a slave who had recently given birth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyhow,” she says, “I ain’t no slave. If I work for somebody, there’s got to be some dollars involved.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Deliberately and strategically, the planter class extended special privileges to poor whites in an effort to drive a wedge between them and black slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Not once, in over a thousand pages, does Hogwarts: A History mention that we are all colluding in the oppression of a hundred slaves!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I ventured to ask how long we might have before the farmer we’d tied beneath his bed was found and released, and might convey an idea of our number and appearance to the slave patrollers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

This time last year, when she was back in Beaufort with her folks, she wouldn’t have given a second thought to a slave going to work in the rice fields. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

As did the plentiful drinking water, the torches, and the distance she had traveled from the slave catchers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Talk surrounded them, however, as one slave was pointed to with great interest or another was laughed at. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both wear plain black silk dresses, which, while excellent for sneaking around and keeping slaves’ cuffs hidden, don’t blend so well into the rainbow plumage of the throng. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Rather they were quite specifically the voice of the oppressed African-American - ‘these songs are the articulate message of the slave to the world’ - and should remain so. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

People in the border states, who had been sheltering runaway slaves, helped further the mystery of an underground road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1796, he had begun to draft his last will and testament, in which he eventually made elaborate provisions to assure that all his slaves would be freed upon the death of his wife. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were better than the others, Elias. I never imagined you would take a slave to your bed.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Up until a few months ago, Martin had been a slave. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Austin Wood- folk, the slave trader, was in Cambridge, and Brodas had arranged for her sale. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the slaves? Like his own son? How can you own a member of your family?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The old slave guessed what he was up to and got there first. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Athens in the time of Pericles, Plato and Aristotle had a vast slave population. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody knew it was his mother, Kate, who saved him from affliction and the early winnowing that is every plantation slave’s first trial. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Like other runaway slaves, Harriet Tubman was no longer safe in Philadelphia. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the Randall plantation, the doctor was only called when the slave remedies, the roots and salves, had failed and a valued hand was near death. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s possible that he did. He was already pretty sure you could read and write. That’s one reason he seemed so suspicious and mistrustful. Educated slaves aren’t popular around here.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave, who had escaped from his master in Virginia, was arrested and held in the Boston Courthouse. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they worked—across the equator, to the Cape, and into the Indian Ocean they slaved—Nat and the men before the mast. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They will make slaves of us, or throw us in the pits. All will be as it was, or worse.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As to my own treatment while I lived on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation, it was very similar to that of the other slave children. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes, I forgot for the moment—a small affair—you have come for the slave called O-lan. I remember we promised her to some farmer in marriage. You are that farmer?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Pleasants’ father came from a family of Quakers, and one of his distant relatives had been the first to fight successfully to free his own slaves through the Virginia courts. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A millionaire named Lewis Hicks ran fourteen mines where bosses treated workers like slaves. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

What if this serum works, and I become a slave to the simulations like everyone else? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We are now led by men from Virginia, I am told,” she said, “land of my birth. I assure Your Honor that in Virginia, we do not tolerate the rebellion of slaves.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus would rise and release his madness on the world, and she would become his slave. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jared: Right here, right now, on these red hills of Georgia, a son of former slaves and sons of former slave owners are sitting down at the table of brotherhood, dude. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Prior to the Civil War, when West Virginia was still part of the state of Virginia, these ancestors of mine were slaves on a plantation called The Bower, in Leetown, Virginia. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Because Cox has forty former slaves living on his farm, it is too dangerous for Booth and Herold to stay on the property. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He told and retold the story of the children of Israel, and how they escaped from bondage, to a group of slaves who were his followers. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slave ducked inside the door of the store at the crossroads. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice broke when he told of how two of his father’s household slaves had risen up the night the gate broke. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I loved Ma Charles as much as I could love her without having been around her much, but I couldn’t slave over those white sheets. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The inside of the house was a real surprise, nothing like a place some slaves was living in for ten years. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Even amongst slaves there were lords and peasants, as he had been quick to learn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But still shebeens thrived, for they were an irresistible and indispensable way of making ends meet, providing much-needed income to augment slave wages received from working for white people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked, “Are ye a slave for life?” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

They could be bought and sold, whipped and branded, used for the carnal pleasure of their owners, bred to make more slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She hesitated, then added, “Well, not exactly just like you. You’re a slave, which means you belong to him.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The underlying assumption of this position was most openly acknowledged by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina—namely, that “South Carolina and Georgia cannot do without slaves.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“A free black walks different than a slave,” he said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They were both freed slaves and they wanted to get good and far from cotton-growing country. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This last, of course, excludes those dismal slave parties, whipped and controlled and dominated, given by ogreish professional hostesses. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves were engaged in the tobacco fields, weeding. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Du Bois eloquently reminds us, former slaves had “a brief moment in the sun” before they were returned to a status akin to slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To work the colonists’ farms, slaves were soon imported from different corners of the Dutch empire, from West Africa, Madagascar, and the East Indies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I am a tired old man. But I have killed this fish which is my brother and now I must do the slave work.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I be free too. Never no slave no more.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly had learned that Cato, the oldest slave on the plantation, always seemed to know everything that went on while managing to do very little work at all. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves were distressed, and requested we throw them down a hawser, that they might board us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And before I’ll be a slave, I’ll be buried in my grave, And go home to my Lord and be free. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Who cared about the feelings of an ignorant slave, anyway? Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one syllable Matthew disposed of the sacrifice, only a little less sharp than Grandfather’s loss, of the little African slave who had been her shadow for twelve years. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Other slaves, mostly women, followed them tying the wheat into bundles. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Someday, she was going to cost Eastern Shore plantation owners a huge amount of money by guiding three hundred of their runaway slaves to freedom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Two, three years ago, there was another girl here, slave like you. She talked back. Madam called her surly and took to beating her regular-like. One day she beat her with a fireplace poker.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the slaves did not need to overhear their masters to learn about the ideas of equality. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I am but a humble slave of R’hllor, the Lord of Light.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By midnight she had collected a small group of slaves, all of whom wanted to be free, and started North with them, heading for Philadelphia. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This country's economy was built and grew on the backs of slaves. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She had always thought of Boston as a safe place, a haven, for runaway slaves, just like Philadelphia. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A silent slave was not liked by overseers, because a silent slave was probably brooding about escape or revolt. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The persecuted laugh, and the black slave sings to his outraged soul beneath the whip. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some of those Africans they brought over here as slaves could fly. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to escape the ruthless business of sugarcane as slaves cut, pounded, boiled, and poured it into sticky barrels, bound for Europe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After all, the chaos in France made the English slave trade and sugar islands all the more profitable. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sojourner Truth, for instance, was still a slave. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Are we rabbits? Are we to fear those Cauldron slaves?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He made it a personal crusade to visit shebeens regularly, and there, amid intense beer-drinking and boisterous talk, denounce Christianity as a “clever ploy through which whites sought to keep blacks forever slaves.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Joneses reached Chicago, they befriended a group of abolitionists, black and white, working together as “conductors,” assisting slaves to freedom on the hidden tracks of the Underground Railroad. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“If it weren’t for the slaves, there’d never have been no war, now would there?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It urged the Congress to “take such measures in their wisdom, as the powers with which they are invested will authorize, for promoting the abolition of slavery, and discouraging every species of traffic in slaves.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The pastor started off talking about the importance of Juneteenth, equating the plight of black slaves to the Israelites in ancient Egypt. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was no longer a slave!—with the people’s plaudits ringing in his ears, knew that he might still be a dead man. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The masters said that even a little learning made a slave discontented, unfit for a life of slavery. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother had a woman from the village. I know nothing of these affairs. Is there none in the great house, no old slave with whom you were friends, who could come?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

As interesting as his list of sixes was, my mother hurried on her way; she had come to market to buy herself a slave. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I played the slave, minded my manners probably more than I had to because I wasn’t sure what I could get away with. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The Braavosi are descended from escaped slaves. They do not trade in Slaver’s Bay.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The laboratory was just an old shed that had once been part of the slave quarters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Nat Turner empowered and educated other slaves, and it led to one of the biggest slave revolts in history.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Horses befoul the streets,” one man of Zakh had told her, “slaves do not.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I learnt from Ma that people who use to be slaves love prettying up any kind of story. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A slave handed him a pair of thick horsehair mittens, and he pulled them on, never so much as looking at the man. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher got the upper hand, pinning the man to the ground. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Whatever Diana, or even Betsy, might think, she, Lyddie, was far less a slave than most any girl she knew of. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A tall stocky slave drove a wagon around to us and I got on the back while Weylin took the seat beside the driver. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

To a woman who had been a slave, these were some of the great, incredible wonders of freedom. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I would try to keep friendship with him, maybe plant a few ideas in his mind that would help both me and the people who would be his slaves in the years to come. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

For the slave catcher the tunnel was all the gold in the world. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The slave who had seized upon the stays of our ship stood, and, casting a glance toward the mob awaiting him upon the shore, began to climb, his knees clasped around the cords. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then another of the slaves, squatted by the fire, broke the silence. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had not forgotten the slave children the Great Masters had nailed up along the road from Yunkai. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I think no person be the zombie type, Jeremie. Nobody born fit to be a slave.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed that Noah was gently picking up the trembling slave girl, moving her to the other side of the wagon and placing her on a blanket that lay wrinkled on the rough floorboard. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did people keep speaking of equality while profiting from slaves? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He may be only a slave, but he is a man, a good man with a noble heart. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, he planned an insurrection, in which he and his followers were to kill all the white people in Charleston, South Carolina, and free the slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was hiring out more and more of his slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young as he look, he done tracked down sixteen runaway slaves by hisself. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Viola refused to call it either the laboratory or the former slave quarters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It had windows too; those were its chief amenity, along with the iron ring set in the wall, so useful for chaining up one’s slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If you mean racking up balls,” said Shorty, “I don’t know of no pool joints around here needing anybody. You mean you just want any slave you can find?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the quarter the slaves came to look at her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shepherds and farmers throughout history showed affection for their animals and have taken great care of them, just as many slaveholders felt affection and concern for their slaves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They jerk up their feet with cocky roosterness as if they have not yet heard about the two-legged beasts who are going to make slaves of their wives. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mostly freed slaves. Some white folk—mostly Spaniards, espaholes. Lots of Indians from different tribes—Creek, Seminole, Cherokee—all living together. There is nothing like it en todo el mundo—in all the world.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Commandant is sick enough to use the slaves’ friendships against them, then it’s no wonder Izzi and Cook keep their distance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had grown up singing the old slave songs called spirituals, the hymns she had learned in church, and songs by popular American composers, such as Stephen Foster. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“You want to start a slave revolt, CO? That’s what you doing?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not a slave,” Lyddie said, more fiercely than she intended. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Former slaves, it was argued, were too illiterate to exercise the vote responsibly, and were ill-prepared for the duties of public office. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Up to the Tea Water Pump, I found only unfamiliar faces, slaves who had freed themselves by joining the British. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man walked over to the slave women and rubbed his hands together. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Moon of my life, you do not ask a slave, you tell her. She will do as you command." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

While conditions varied from plantation to plantation, the majority of slaves lived a twilight existence in which no area of human relations or personal dignity was sacred. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

That summer, after hearing one of Smith’s sermons, over three thousand slaves grabbed their machetes, their long poles, and rose up against their masters. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

While the plants ripened, one large group of slaves was sent off to cut the wood to fire the boiling vats, while another spent its days carting the timber back to the boiling house. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

A slave laborer from Poland had done the stamping. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked for some kind of agreement in regard to the return of the hundreds of fugitive slaves living in Canada. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What you are is a slave,” Afi told her, her voice cold and firm. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She acts as ifshe has forgotten that, as if she were highborn and fair to look upon, instead of a slave in a grotesquerie. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The slaves who were not so chosen had short and unhappy lives. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Midday had come and gone before he and Penny reached the well, where a scrawny one-legged slave was drawing water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby ignored the slaves and ordered Noah to turn to the right. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Constitution of the United States, only recently ratified, specifically prohibited the Congress from passing any law that abolished or restricted the slave trade until 1808. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Like the Abolitionists, she believed slavery to be morally wrong—for masters and slaves alike. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves whispered to each other, ear to mouth, mouth to ear, “Moses is here.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could one side of the river mean you were free and the other side mean you were a slave? Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

If Dad found an ant hill, he’d tell us about certain colonies of ants that kept slaves and herds of cows. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the western territories, Wilson was certain that Congress “would never allow slaves in any of the new states.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As this was being done—by other slaves—Weylin stood whirling his whip and biting his thin lips. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

All the slaves also whispered about the fact that she was pregnant. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor would she punish slaves for rising up against their masters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I reckon it was the slaves and tariffs and things. I never thought about it much.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Coming from the opposite direction, from the slave quarters, the sharp wailing cry of a newborn could be heard. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Born in 1762, a son of a slave. For a short time, a slave himself.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

On the way to Ben’s cabin the slaves moved so quietly, so slowly, so stealthily, that they might have been part of the night itself. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think we’ll need to sell any slaves to get money for next year’s supplies?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was not because chiefdoms were more kindly disposed toward defeated enemies but because the greater economic specialization of states, with more mass production and more public works, provided more uses for slave labor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

FitzRoy defended slavery, stating that some slaves were happy because their masters were good to them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many doctors tested drugs on slaves and operated on them to develop new surgical techniques, often without using anesthesia. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Shorty’s slave in the poolroom, he said, was just to keep ends together while he learned his horn. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man could hardly be a runaway slave. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the roads outside town, we'd drive past the gateways to what were once slave plantations, though they were enough of a fact of life that nobody ever bothered to remark on them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The newspapers liked to impress the fantasy of the happy plantation and the contented slave who sang and danced and loved Massa. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For the next few days the slaves were treated a little differently. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Modern Europe is not a society molded by sub-Saharan black Africans who brought millions of Native Americans as slaves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

According to the master’s will, none of the slaves could be sold outside the state of Maryland. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought on their hypocrisy, too easy a mark, even, for argument, so howling it was — that I had been apprehended as slave through the capitulation of those who fought for liberty. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It say I’m a official South Carol-liney slave catcher. Best job God created.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m dog tired, and I’m not your slave. There’s cold cereal over there if you want some.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“If peasants are the Devil’s slaves and if Jews are his emissaries and if women are his spies, Saracens are his foot soldiers. Are they not?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was scared at first, because by then I’d learned in school about how slaves were sometimes dumped off of slave ships before they could even make it to the island. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Behind him walked a slave boy about my height, whose arms were weighted down with a wooden contraption and a small case with a rope handle. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves might be in bed, but if my mother’s asleep, then I’m a swamp jinn. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon Amari, peeling potatoes in the corner of the kitchen, listened as Lena, one of the house slaves, gossiped with Teenie. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves walked the roads between towns with their scavenged weapons: hatchets and scythes, knives and bricks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In 1782 the Virginia legislature passed a law permitting slave owners to free their slaves at their own discretion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They openly bragged of their subversion, hustling a slave out the back door as the slave catchers broke down the front. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They had agreed that if any questions were asked Lasaraleen would pretend that Aravis was a slave she was taking as a present to one of the princesses. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Not waiting for Ridgeway’s order—or obeying a signal shared only by the slave catcher and the boy secretary—Homer drove the wagon away from the doomed town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This time he is no one’s servant or slave. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Connelly once put out a slave’s eyes for looking at words. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Boycotts had been used before, as far back as 1832, when a national convention of free blacks meeting in Philadelphia initiated a boycott of goods made by slave labor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They passed beneath three massive arches, down a torchlit ramp into the vaults beneath the pyramid, past cisterns, dungeons, and torture chambers where slaves had been scourged and skinned and burned with red-hot irons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Preacher had won enough by now to really buy six more slaves out of America! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Apparently they were speaking English and the slave girl had to translate for the captain, so either she just didn’t get it or she put up with it, which partly proves Julie’s point. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He turned the Inca people into slaves and they died by the thousands from harsh work and disease. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Feasts like this didn’t happen in Terrance’s domain, for the younger brother was stingy with slave amusements. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She asked to see another slave—one I didn’t know—and then wept a little when she heard that one had been sold. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Overseers feared the slaves were using drums to send messages and spread thoughts of rebellion. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I let him know I’m looking for a slave. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Yet there are other men and other lives, and time still to be. And for me, I pity even his slaves.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I reckon they make slaves out of ’em. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, I don't think they will appreciate that a fellow slave knows all about my mission. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And there were two important slave children right here in Maryland. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His house, which the slaves called the Big House, stood near a country road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older slaves whispered to each other, saying: “Did he free us as he promised?” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She may have been either a daughter or a slave. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pays attention to slaves, rocks, lightning, finches, and the ceremony of pressing noses in New Zealand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I remembered how those stories got you so excited and mad and worked up that you wanted to charge down into America and free all the slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They weren't no slaves, and they didn't have to bust into anybody's grocery store. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The woman? What woman?...” the old lady began, but the slave girl at her side stooped and whispered and the lady recovered herself. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Between them, the slave and his young mistress had cheated Marcus of his pleasure, humiliated him, and hurled him to the ground. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

When most of the slaves were able to walk, they were led to a large building about half a mile from the beach. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the other slaves, Harriet knew the story as accurately and as completely as though she had been an eyewitness to the event. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was during this period that Ernest acquired the reputation of a relentless taskmaster in command of a growing brigade; the recurring term in personal reminiscences of the Rad Lab is “slave driver.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was discussed all through the South, in the slave cabins, in the big houses, whispered about, argued about, at night, just as it was in Ben’s cabin. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jarred me with his elbow so I swerved and almost ran full into four slaves carrying a woman of distinction on a sedan-chair. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The man’s posture said that he did not enjoy taking orders, and the insolence in his eyes was not slave insolence, an impotent pose, but a hard fact. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Once they left the slave catcher and his wagon, her rescuers gave their names. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was almost impossible to try a runaway slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas Thistlewood, the plantation owner who cataloged his sexual exploits, had a lifelong relationship with a slave named Phibbah, whom, by all accounts, he adored, and who bore him a son. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“So I’m slaving in this miserable place for a name and title that don’t even belong to me? Who does everyone think Adarlan’s Assassin really is?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Morgo, bring the keys. You fill the pails and come right back, dwarf. You know what happens to slaves who try to escape.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“A pretty metal, but fickle as a woman. Gold, now... gold is sincere. Qarth will gladly give you gold... for slaves.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I got a real clear memory of it ’cause it was tied up with the last time we had slave catchers come to Buxton from America. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Nat Turner had been a silent, brooding slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, the Weylins may have expected her to go on doctoring the slaves, but the slaves knew better. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Duke Ellington, grandson of a former slave, began with his band a four-year residency at New York's Hollywood Club in 1923. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I am told,” the king said, sagging like the winter branches weighted by snow, “that the workers are treated worse than slaves and the emperor has the fallen buried under the wall.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And the Commandant deserves to know what her slaves are doing. Not telling her is tantamount to aiding and abetting the enemy. I’m turning them in.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cane sugar had brought millions of Africans into slavery, then helped foster the movement to abolish the slave trade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Rebellious slaves were chased through the fields, and if they fled into the nearby forests, troops hunted them down. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

After one particularly deep dip in the road Polly was tossed across the bags of seed, landing hard against the slave girl, who opened her eyes and looked around frantically. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

By playing up their strangeness, the way a slave simpered and acted childlike to escape a beating, they evaded the entanglements of the quarter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Before Julius could move, the two slaves escorting him hauled him to his feet. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps science was stillborn in Indian, Mayan and Aztec civilizations for the same reason it declined in Ionia, the pervasiveness of the slave economy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes possessed Julia now as fully as if she were an antebellum slave, and he reveled in his possession. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After the Civil War the former slave stayed on as plantation boss. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her simpering posture and piteous aspect, recognizable from thousands of slaves before her, betrayed her intentions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He had been born in the South in 1858 to a slave father and a free mother. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To get fifteen million of us here to make us his slaves, on the way he murdered one hundred million! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hugged her back, then asked quietly, “Is I still a slave, Amari?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sold him to a trader—fellow taking slaves overland to Mississippi.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Donald grunted in disapproval or shook his head at newspaper items about the latest slave incident, but it wasn’t clear if he judged the brutality of the master or the intransigence of the slave. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Slaves were tools, so maybe the latter, but no one here was a slave. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a slave will be lost in a brief eddy of liberation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That night, in the slave cabins in the quarter, they talked about Harriet. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later all fugitive slaves in the city went there seeking information about their relatives, or with requests for help of one kind or another. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The godswife would be walking among the other Lamb Men, in the long column of slaves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe a slave girl in the bottom of a boat, chained to some boy with the prettiest eyes and some girl who keeps stealing my little scraps of food. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The night the slave catcher came to town had cleaved him from his old life. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As the gunboats went farther and farther up the Combahee, they began to see slaves working in the rice fields. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would unearth Lincoln and his freeing of the slaves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves, when they heard this, clustered close about him and embraced him; and he embraced them, and none could forbear weeping. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Groups of young whites who ostensibly maintained order among the slaves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Who could blame the slaves their sad comportment with that corpse twisting on a hook outside? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And Orcs, they were useful slaves, but he had them in plenty. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“What we got here? Two slaves and a . . . What be ye, gal?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buzzer sounded, ten seconds to go, pop-pop, get in there and fight, black boy, pop- pop, you slave, and he drove in, pop-pop, hook, Rivera's eyes were wild, pop-pop and right cross. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had hung a dozen or so kerosene lamps from the ceiling at various heights around the old slave quarters, and you had to watch your head. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Along the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in Dorchester County, in Caroline County, the masters kept hearing whispers about the man named Moses, who was running off slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“News is rather hard to come by when you’re slaving in a mine.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher was completely gray, unkempt, skin gone sallow. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The knight dismounted, then hammered on the door until a haggard slave with a horsehead on his cheek came running. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They forced women into slave marriage with the King for the purpose of reproducing their babies at a high rate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wise Masters had returned to slaving as soon as she moved on, and were busy raising levies, hiring sellswords, and making alliances against her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gore once undertook to whip one of Colonel Lloyd’s slaves, by the name of Demby. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

In 1878, he started Chicago’s first black newspaper, the Conservator, and called blacks to action: “We are no longer slaves. We intend to act the part of free men.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She found that out herself, because she became involved in the case of a runaway slave who had been arrested and was to be tried. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were fighting for principles that they had learned from Europeans and Americans—from people similar to their own slave masters. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

And we didn’t have to pay nothing for it, it was gave to us by other folks that use to be slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Many Africans died of malnutrition, overwork, or injuries inflicted by punishments—and were merely replaced by a fresh crop from the slave boats. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s bad enough I’m lost in the forest with a couple of runaway slaves!” she told Amari. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said that the new law turned them into slave catchers. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he had started his own revolution and led Curzon and the other slaves over the river Jordan to freedom. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

This could be die beginning of an emotional and financial dependency, which Sammy knew how to develop until she was his virtual slave. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the litter, female slaves in beautiful clothes, and then a few grooms, runners, pages, and the like. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he brought the whip down across the slave’s back. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I was too busy slaving to pretend much of anything anyway. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“No. No indeed. She always bragged how she was never a slave. Her people neither.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There stood Boots’s cage, and there were the four slaves who carried it—all fast asleep too, sitting on the floor with their backs against the bars. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

And small men That buy and sell for silver being slaves Crinkle the fat about their eyes; and yet No Prince of the Cities of the Sea has taken her, Leading to his grim bed. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately afterward, the clearing slaves rushed out from the side gates with grappling hooks and rakes and ropes, and began to clean up the scene. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their mother shushed them with a finger to her lips, her eyes never leaving the preacher, who was talking about Moses and the Hebrew slaves. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Clay and his father continued their conversation as if Polly and the slave sitting next to her did not exist. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been traveling for almost two hours when Mr. Derby announced, “Well, Clay, what shall we call our latest acquisition? Since the new slave is to be yours, I shall let you name her.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trader called upon the tobacco plantation looking for slaves of breeding age, preferably with all their teeth and of pliable disposition. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But it would be a commonplace to a man of Aristotle’s generation and time that the opinions of women and slaves were quite irrelevant. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Before he passed from cholera he liked to share stories from the Bible, his former master being more liberal-minded when it came to slaves and religion. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes we use money to get along,” she used to tell me, “but that doesn’t mean we have to become its slave.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The great European powers were equally unwilling to recognize the land where slaves had freed themselves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But tribal societies without intensive food production have no employment for slaves and do not produce large enough food surpluses to be able to yield much tribute. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The master went back to Kentucky and told about this strange disappearance, how his slave, Tice, had literally vanished before his eyes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

More slaves from Africa had been shipped by the British than by any other nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Made the rounds of the slave villages in search of anything amiss, a smile or a book. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They raided the villages where our people were held as slaves, rescuing them and taking away livestock from those who attacked us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

These stories showed her exactly what the new law meant to runaway slaves living anywhere in the United States, and that, of course, included her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant slaves swept their scythes through the meadow grass and gasped and exclaimed with pleasure. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He ain’t the one’s been running off the slaves around here!’ Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot be a slave, I will not be a slave . Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The slave had said, “But we are slaves.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was arrested in Boston, on February 15, 1851, charged with being a fugitive slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave, the dwarf reflected. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s a good slave, he says, in the ballroom, with all the people and the music. Gotta jump on it.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your friends made slaves to the Lord of Time. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The children and the slaves looked and were silent, and there was only the sound of this dreadful, frightened weeping of the young girl. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She found herself feeling sorry for this new slave who huddled in the wagon, glistening with sweat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lafayette had been assigned a Virginia slave named James Armistead, whose master had given him permission to join the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night after night the slaves kept creeping into the cabin to look at Harriet. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She recognized most of the slaves on the place by now and knew they posed no threat to her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dreamed of her parents, of her little brother, of the belly of the slave ship. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles recalled too clearly the cruelty of his Efik captors, taunting him and his father, telling them that the white men had sharp teeth and purchased slaves to eat them soulless. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The close communication, the rapid exchange of information among the slaves, troubled and disturbed the masters. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet she doesn’t hunch or shuffle like the other slaves. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“All right, if Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner…” “Mr. Oliver?” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Even those few older slaves who could no longer labor with cane, no matter how maimed or injured, had to repair tools or nurse the newly wounded. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

If they don’t know nothing else, they knows how to hold slaves and they knows how to keep us held.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Clark said, “Who does this slave think he is?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I meant is it all slaves or is it mostly white?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” she said simply, thinking how amazing it was that there should be white people who were willing to go to such lengths to help a slave get to the North. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cart lurched along behind her, the driver hooting at sailors and slaves alike to clear the way. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As long as I could remember, she’d bossed me like I was her slave. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In October 1857, he gave money to a runaway slave passing through Hiram on his way from Kentucky to freedom in Canada. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sent a purse of coins to the slave as a reward for his initiative. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

And yet—she knew that there were slaves who had betrayed other slaves when they tried to escape. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As each rider swung down from his saddle, he unbelted his aiakh and handed it to a waiting slave, and any other weapons he carried as well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“That would require thousands of slaves. Where do the Yunkishmen expect to find so many?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Other episodes of mass fatality are abundantly documented: the Black Death in Europe, the post-collectivization famine in the Soviet Union, even the traffic in African slaves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Teenie kept her busy from dawn to dusk doing what Polly considered to be slave labor—peeling potatoes, shelling peas, shucking corn, and carrying heavy stacks of kindling for the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to. I’m a Mask and you're a slave, and I shouldn’t have—” “It’s all right.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Amari realized as she listened intently to their conversation that she and her fellow slaves were the cargo. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would probably continue the old master’s practice of hiring out slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, since chiefs required menial servants as well as specialized craftspeople, chiefdoms differed from tribes in having many jobs that could be filled by slaves, typically obtained by capture in raids. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she thought of her family, left behind in Maryland, all of them slaves, her joy in having escaped rapidly left her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same traits of character might be seen in Colonel Lloyd’s slaves, as are seen in the slaves of the political parties. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

I slaved from dawn until the stars shone: house chores in the morning, serving coffee in the afternoon, and cleaning after supper. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The serf of chivalry was not a slave for whom there was no hope. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maggie was not allowed to leave her station and became a veritable Company slave. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Like the rest of the slaves, she feared change. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some 400,000 English people stopped buying the sugar that slaves grew and harvested. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

As I stumble along, it’s clear I’m not the only injured slave. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Outside, she didn’t see any white men, the rough sort she imagined slave catchers to look like. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She had announced her arrival in the quarter by singing the forbidden spiritual—“Go down, Moses, ’way down to Egypt Land”—singing it softly outside the door of a slave cabin, late at night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slave owners fought back, arguing that owners should be able to list their slaves as property when they arrived in France and take them with them when they left. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the stories, he took slaves’ spirits on trips of happiness and joy and wonder, all while their bodies remained on the plantation and continued to work. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

No one knows this better than the freed slaves of Richmond. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

According to her, John Henry was a farmer, a former slave turned sharecropper, who got arrested for something ridiculous. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His day to day on the estate consisted of conducting sordid parties in the big house and putting his slaves to bleak amusements, forcing them to serve as his victims in Cora’s stead. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the antebellum South, the lowliest white person at least possessed his or her white skin—a badge of superiority over even the most skilled slave or prosperous free African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had a predilection for broad shoulders and big hands, as did Old Randall, although the master and his slave had different sorts of labor in mind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A slave girl squeezing out pups was like a mint, money that bred money. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

With most of the slaves working the mines, and only a few toiling inside the ramshackle refining sheds, the giant yard was almost deserted. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

So he told the slave that he was very sorry that he had to give him valley land. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve lived in places much worse,” Polly said to the slave girl, who had already sunk to the floor and curled her arms tightly around herself. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the plantation of Edward Brodas, the slaves knew when the Georgia trader arrived in Cambridge, the nearest city, and rented a room in the tavern. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t let your Pap tell you ’bout the things the cap’n done to Mr. Tanner’s slaves, but believe me, that man ain’t human. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It was now doubly dangerous for her to return to slave territory, yet in the spring of 18 51 she went back to Dorchester County. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

To attack the melody without the burden of providing one of the sole comforts of their slave village. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

By the time the Haitian plantation owners and overseers reached New Orleans, abolitionists were pressing to end the African slave trade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Good Masters of Astapor had not allowed their slave soldiers even names. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sims was the first slave to be sent back into slavery by Massachusetts since the Revolution. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Killed three slaves before she was satisfied that the message had sunk in. Lucky I'd warned Izzi away from the boy. Lucky she listened." An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Polly thought about the slaves she had come to know since she had come to the plantation. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

No cabin walls shuttling her through the night seas like the hold of a slave ship. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

You must not imagine that Shasta felt at all as you and I would feel if we had just overheard our parents talking about selling us for slaves. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“The same ones Your Grace was following, I believe. You see, we are alike. If you will not take me for. your husband, I am content to be your slave.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The slave felt panic flooding through his limbs as the lizard's eyes swiveled to look at him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered how we’d act like we were sneaking up on a plantation to kill the lot of slave masters and make a run for Canada with some happy, smiling, free slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I’d eaten the cake, drunk the Tonic, given up the necklace, slaved for my stepmother, let Olive suck me dry. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A former slave came, to accuse a certain noble of the Zhak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Pa was still humming and Ma and Mrs. Holton were starting in on something the growned folks don’t like talking ’bout much in front of us, ’bout the times they were slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Biased police practices are also nothing new, a recurring theme of African American experience since blacks were targeted by the police as suspected runaway slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“They get food, jobs, and housing. Come and go as they please, marry who they wish, raise children who will never be taken away. Good jobs, too, not slave work. But you’ll see soon enough.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But what could the former slaves dor1 Every Indian who accepted the paltry wages specified in the indenture contract lowered the price an African could charge for his labor. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s a slave. He will not be treated same as free men.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the map, the division line between slave and non-slave societies occurs in Virginia, broadly anticipating the Mason-Dixon line that later split slave states from free. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As boats arrived in Saint Domingue from France, slaves learned that a revolution was going on in the name of human rights. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Working my train slave this past year, I felt that rumble all the time. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For if Haitians could claim their freedom and be recognized by America, why couldn’t slaves within the United States do the same thing? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves living in the eleven states that had seceded from the Union. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“There was once a slave girl,” the tall, handsome, and very young Roberto Vega said calmly in Spanish. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Doctor,” said the slave, “do you understand that I do know how to finish off my weaving?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had told his body slave to give him his first, very light shave, just his upper lip where the dark down had begun to gather. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The United States was in the midst of the Civil War; slaves from Africa were not an option. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“She was on a plantation down near Montgomery. She had two children and she had a man she loved, but they weren’t married because the slaves couldn’t get married like the white folks could.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves worked the rows—with the harvest approaching there was no question. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She had never married, preferring, as she said, “not to be a slave to any man.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

This was a privilege which was extended to trustworthy slaves who were good workers. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angola, the country’s largest prison, was built on an eighteen-thousand-acre former plantation once used for the breeding of slaves. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Smith told the women that Harriet Powell was a slave from Mississippi who had recently escaped while in Syracuse with the slaveholder. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And he told her horrendous tales of what happened to crews that were captured by the Barbary pirates—men put in chains—sold as slaves. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the opening of vast new territories, slaves had tripled in value. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Amazonian Indians, the Yanomamo among them, abandoned their farm villages, which had made them sitting ducks for European diseases and slave trading. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

What about the blacks who’d practiced slavery for millennia and sold slaves across the Sahara and then across the sea? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In Du Bois’s view, Washington’s public statements arguing that poor education and bad choices were responsible for the plight of former slaves ignored the damage wrought by caste and threatened to rationalize the entire system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My tribe’s migration came amid the time of European colonialism, and life was violent and turbulent across the region, as Africans were seized as slaves and forced into hard labor. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“She’s the third slave to die in the Commandant’s service this year.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She knew that she was no longer regarded as a desirable slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this time, when you fail, you’ll wonder if it’s worthwhile slaving for the gods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The reality of slave violence versus stability in the long term. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The events in Jamestown were alarming to the planter elite, who were deeply fearful of the multiracial alliance of bond workers and slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But they were going to make us slaves,” argued Mrs. Arvydas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

On the Brodas plantation, the slaves whispered about The Prophet too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re slaves, Elias. Their only concern is pleasing their master, and in this case, I assure you, their master would not be pleased.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The slave's hair caught fire in the blast of flame the Firedrake sent to follow him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nine men of every ten bore slave marks on their cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the former slaves in what became Haiti defeated the French army. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

From the far end of the Long Bridge, it was only a short walk through the teeming waterfront districts of the west bank, down torchlit streets crowded with sailors, slaves, and drunken merrymakers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“By saying the slave should eat honey," he explained, “he means that we should find a little pity in our hearts for one who was driven by despair to do something he will always regret." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at last with a great creaking and sighing he heaved up his enormous body, signed to the slaves to precede him with the lights and went out. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

And while Philadelphia had approximately 3,000 free blacks, there were still over 200 blacks being kept as slaves. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

When she had been a slave in Yunkai, she had played for every highborn family in the city. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

American Indians were considered unsuitable as slaves, largely because native tribes were clearly in a position to fight back. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We see master and slave alike, confounded at the celerity and ineluctability of our approach, calling warnings— messengers sent on horseback, riding no faster than our progress, posting along ridges, bent close upon their steeds. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Stanton wrote to Lucretia Mott: “Woman can never develop in her present drapery. She is a slave to her rags.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And wasn't that old slave a scientist—or at least called one, recognized as one—even when he stood with hat in hand, bowing and scraping in senile and obscene servility? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly noticed that the slave breathed slowly and loudly, as if he was tense, but he made no attempt to stop the young man from hitting him. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An agricultural society with a handful of large landowners, multitudes of dirt farmers, and slaves.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The hermaphrodite had long been their master’s special pet, indulged and favored, and the noble Yezzan’s other slaves hated him for it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’s like the slaves back in the day that weren’t really slaves at all because they’d taken their freedom, and lived in their own house, and owned their own clothes, and ate their own food. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Though she was not aware of it, she had become a legend in the slave cabins along the Eastern Shore. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Hitler had had things his way, we'd just be slaves now. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of Blackcliff’s slaves live and work on the main grounds. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean to spend my life here watching my children grow up as slaves and maybe get sold.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then and there, she decided that those privileges were worth slaving for all her life. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land was quickly disappearing, the soldiers looking like miniatures of themselves as they dragged another coffle of slaves into another small boat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you ain’t never had nothing to play with,” he said, excusing me, “but you start when you get a slave, and if you hit, you got a stake for something. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

More slaves led to more cotton, which led to more money to buy more land to farm more cotton. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He was a slave in a golden collar, with little bells that tinkled cheerfully with every step he took. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

An explanation for the decline of ancient science has been put forward by the historian of science Benjamin Farrington: The mercantile tradition, which led to Ionian science, also led to a slave economy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the delegates were freed slaves, though the younger ones may have been born free. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Some masters free their slaves when they die,” said Penny. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The doctor recounted the story of forty slaves, shackled together on a ship, who jumped overboard en masse rather than live in bondage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Slaves done ris,” was whispered in the cabin and at the master’s gate: slaves in another county had fired the masters’ houses and fields and dashed their children to death against the stones. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They wondered how the Lord of this realm maintained and fed his slaves and his armies. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The women and children of Ogo's khalasai walked with a sullen pride, even in defeat and bondage; they were slaves now, but they seemed not to fear it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Colonel Lloyd’s slaves would boast his ability to buy and sell Jacob Jepson. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Met by troops composed of both blacks and whites, some sixty-six slaves were killed, as well as two whites. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Understandably, the sight of Johnny wielding a broom, carrying charcoal, firewood, water, had not quickly lost its fascination for his erstwhile slaves. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

French slaves to the north of us, Spanish slaves to the south of us. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The masters on The Slave Isaura think it’s perfectly normal to own slaves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were almost three hundred thousand slaves in North Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The slave had no rights; the masters had no fear. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The days were getting shorter, the nights were perceptibly cooler, the year was turning toward the Christmas season and the long holiday which the entire countryside would celebrate— both the masters and the slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slave blinked and said he thought valley land was bottom land. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Uri’s story of my beginnings, of becoming a slave to farmers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher threw his body to smear her into the ground. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

No slave had ever keeled over dead at a spinning wheel or been butchered for a tangle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He’d never entertained her at his house before, and he had his servants and slaves running around in circles, getting ready for the visit. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t clear if he was talking to the slaves or his horses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Stripped now, half-naked, we did not look conspicuous, being no more indecent than many of the slaves who labored in the fields around us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The slave sailors off the Selaesori Qhoran, sold singly, had gone for prices ranging from five hundred, to nine hundred pieces of silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“She wears a slave bracelet on her leg with his name on it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Murderers and rapers may be forced to fight, and all those who persist in slaving, but not thieves or debtors.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyes linger on my slaves’ cuffs, and I look away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Clay’s three friends stopped their cheering and stared in astonishment at this slave girl who had nerve enough to try to interrupt an afternoon’s sport. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cash value of these slaves, at a moderate estimate, is two billion dollars. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

SJ: Well, these were the same guys who killed off the indigenous peoples and owned slaves. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He gathered slaves to attack a plantation, then head down toward New Orleans. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They did not tell them York was Clark’s slave. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Some African Americans who had been born as slaves were still alive, and could describe how they had lived sixty years earlier. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He grew very rich very young in Spanish America by becoming a market leader in the nascent slave trade. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Knowing that their slaves were likely to die by the time they reached their thirties, Louisiana sugar planters were extremely selective—they bought only healthy-looking young men in their late teens. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s your mouth that concerns me, not your legs. In fetters, you’re a slave. No one will listen to a word you say, not even those who speak the tongue of Westeros.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Another was Samuel Smith’s Negro slave, Ned—the same one who’d first come running to report that the British were coming. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found no trace of Dolios and his sons nor the other slaves—all being gone that day to clear a distant field, and drag the stones for a boundary wall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captured American and British and Australian soldiers were forced into slave labor, starved, and beaten. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My daddy’s uncle kept a lot of the colored Lackses as slaves,” Ruby said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For years, Angola—a slave plantation before the end of the Civil War—forced inmates to work in the fields picking cotton. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before, slave patrollers searched the premises of colored individuals at will, be they free or enslaved. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He’s not expecting company, which is why we’re able to get him off the slave so quickly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

You can go and find honest work slaving away at the looms or assembly lines, but who knows? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I realized suddenly that the slaves in the cookhouse had not been speculating idly about the possibility of being sold. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

All day I slaved away, scrubbing down her porch, sorting buttons, picking dead flies from her screen door. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I am only a slave. My noble master decides when and who I play.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we don’t have to be Scholar slave and Mask.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Your slaves seemed well treated and content. It was not till Astapor that my eyes were opened. Do you know how Unsullied are made and trained?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I thought the lights were the ghosts of those slaves coming for me because they were jealous that I’d been born free. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway fell in with a circle of slave catchers, gorillas stuffed into black suits with ridiculous derbies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Not far to one side of us was a group of Weylin’s slaves who were cutting down trees. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

At their height, the Romans lived among all their conquered, the outer peoples brought to the city as ambassadors, lovers, soldiers, slaves. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the field, slaves, mostly men, worked steadily swinging scythes with attached wooden racks that caught the cut wheat in neat piles. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

All I knew was the crowd liked it, and that was enough for “Harriet Tbbman,” who proclaimed, “Either you want to be free or you want to be scared slaves!” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You wants that boy to be a slave like you? You wants to see him be gator bait again?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janice brandished her silver cap gun at us tired and scared runaway slaves more than Sister Pat’s script had called for. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But do you like being slaves?” the Savage was saying as they entered the Hospital. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black statue of a nude Nubian slave grinned out at me from beneath a turban of gold. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am an escaped slave as well,” the captain told them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bad things happen to slaves foolish enough to do so. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was only half that, which meant he was the oldest slave anyone on the two Randall plantations had ever met. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Not a slave too young, and above all, not a pretty one,” he had said. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They went down one of the old rolling roads, the slave running, and the overseer running too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa’s always telling me that people that use to be slaves are toting things ’round with ’em that caint be seen with your regular eyes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She would need money when she went back into slave territory. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was punished by being forced to serve on earth as a slave for a year and Admetus was the master he chose or Zeus chose for him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems to me,” Lee wrote, “that we southern people must be slaves in effect, or cut the Gordion knot at once.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Twin ghosts now haunted the Big Houses, the fields, the masters, the overseers, the slave traders, the slave drivers. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walk out five minutes later with a freshly minted slave. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are a slave, not a person. They’ll say things in front of you they won’t say in front of the white servants. ’Cause you don’t count to them. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they also used muskets for a new type of warfare: long-distance raids against Maori tribes hundreds of miles away, carried out in order to outdo rivals in acquiring slaves and prestige. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no more going upstairs when the new slave took residence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Butcher King had restored slavery to Astapor, the only change being that the former slaves were now the masters and the former masters were now the slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Prompted by Cora one night, Ridgeway maintained that he’d never owned a slave in his life, save for the fourteen hours Homer was his property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was while James Callender was serving his sentence for libel in a Richmond jail that he first heard rumors of Jefferson’s sexual liaison with a mulatto slave named Sally Hemings. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Snakes,” Polly added, thinking of the slaves in the rice fields. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A plantation owner who lived openly with a slave woman would have been socially ostracized, and any offspring from the union of black and white would have been left in slavery. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

For an outlaw who spent his time pillaging merchant ships and taking the survivors as galley slaves, he was impossibly clean. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He had slaved over it in his shop class. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Caesar clapped his hands, and at once one of his own slaves, who always attended him, ran forward. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Today a criminal freed from prison has scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a freed slave or a black person living “free” in Mississippi at the height of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the slave catcher might visit this Mr. Fletcher and see what developed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It is clear that this slave has violated the person of her master, destroyed valuable property, and attempted to run away, all contrary to the laws of our colony.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other slaves were rather in awe of Ben because he could prophesy about the weather. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though precisely the same situation obtained for Jefferson, as well—he owned about two hundred slaves and ten thousand acres, a goodly portion inherited from his father-in-law—Adams never confronted him so directly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Be their slaves? Hose down their hogs? Clean out their snake pits?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

On average, the men purchased in Louisiana were an inch taller than the people bought in the other slave states. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But he stopped himself, and gestured to the two slaves who had brought Julius in. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I could submit and live the life of a genial slave, but that was impossible. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

New slaves were quickly warned against the Hob women. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t Ma and Aunt Val work as slaves when they were in Haiti?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was anti-Union, antiblack, and the owner of up to eleven slaves before Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had freed them. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the other slaves, she made up the words and the melody of most of the songs that she sang, never singing them exactly the same way. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minstrels projected a greatly romanticized and exaggerated image of black life on plantations with cheerful, simple, grinning slaves always ready to sing, dance, and please their masters. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After Harriet Tubman freed the slaves, Hirohito and the boys showed off their karate kicks and chops and jujitsu moves. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The image of her grandmother assaulting another slave didn’t jibe with Cora’s recollections of the woman, but once she started tending to the plot she understood the truth of the portrait. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He looks so regular, like he wasn’t a slave, like he wasn’t treated like less than anyone else. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The British promise freedom to slaves but won’t give it to the white rebels,” she said as she pushed the handle up and down. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once there, the slaves were shackled by the neck and made to march across Tanzania. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I hate to think of you playing the part of a slave at all.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was her devoted slave by this time; he would have followed her to the ends of the earth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

All I knew was the crowd liked it, and that was enough for “Harriet Tbbman,” who proclaimed, “Either you want to be free or you want to be scared slaves!” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hoped to sell her as a house slave,” the Tribesman continues. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you never knew about slaves on Barbados?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Jean Louise,” he said dryly, “not much more than five per cent of the South’s population ever saw a slave, much less owned one. Now, something must have irritated the other ninety-five per cent.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She was always amazed at how much abuse slaves took without it seeming to bother them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many stories of zombie slaves and a vampire king who lived in a castle. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men decided that traveling right under their noses, with the slaves hidden beneath a Hessian blanket in the back of Fletcher’s cart, was the most prudent. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The peasants of Europe worked essentially as low-paid slaves of an aristocratic landlord, with little control over their own destinies. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“How else do you suppose I think of such ingenious questions? Do you think I would buy a slave who could outwork me in front of my mother-in-law?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m part of the Friday-evening commuter throng, just another wage slave amongst the hot, tired masses, looking forward to getting home and sitting outside with a cold beer, dinner with the kids, an early night. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kept lists of the names of Denmark’s followers, of the places where ammunition was kept, places where there were horses, and the names of slaves who looked after horses. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not begin to be afraid now, she who had stared down a bear and conversed easily with a runaway slave. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Modal melodies, revivalist spirituals, the call-and-response or ‘holler’ songs of African slaves: all of these went into the mixing pot of the early Blues. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It’s unbelievable how many black men and women have let the white man fool them into holding an almost romantic idea of what slave days were like. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might be able to get some of the adult slaves freed while they were still young enough to build new lives. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"I see the faces of slaves. I free you. Take off your collars. Go if you wish, no one shall harm you. If you stay, it will be as brothers and sisters, husbands and wives." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were doing the same thing on the other plantations in Dorchester County—the Stewart plantation, and the Ross plantation—they were all selling slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thin man turned obligingly and called for the slave girl to fetch them food and drink. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Thousands of slaves still toiled on vast estates in the hills, growing wheat and olives, herding sheep and goats, and mining salt and copper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was a slave, and he had been threatened with a beating for doing something wrong. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of slave soldiers lifted her to shoulder height on a shield. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Several slaves rushed out to meet the wagon. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some men would sooner die free than live a slave, I suppose. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“She can be a harsh mistress to slaves.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Columbus was happy to make the Indians he met his slaves, a pool of free manual labor. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

She would die on the road, on that old slave road that ran straight on down into the deep South. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They may have been no more than sharp ridges in the walls of the passage, but to the slave, alone and frightened in the dark, they seemed alive and snapping. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves stepped aside, making calculations of what distance represented the right proportion of fear and respect. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her black hair was like a mirror for smooth shining blackness, but from her speech one could perceive she was not of the lord’s family, but a slave, sharp voiced and bitter tongued. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Watching over the bubbling liquid was the “boiler”—a highly skilled slave. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She learned that a runaway slave named Charles Nalle had been arrested and was being taken inside the courthouse to be tried. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It ain’t easy to get hold of one since so many slaves run off.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wide silver bands that mark me as a slave adorn each wrist. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Edward Brodas was known as the Master to his Negro slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it better to be warm and be a slave? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Van Sommelsdijk had been killed by his own troops several years before, and many of his slaves had vanished into the jungle. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the undisciplined groups the babies crawled into gutters and the older girls each acted as if she were alone, a daughter among slaves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were finally freed, after a series of slave rebellions, their new masters were poverty, illiteracy, and lack of economic opportunity. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Harriet decided that from the dilapidated look of the plantation—fields lying fallow, the Big House in need of repair—Doc Thompson would soon be selling slaves again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the slaves had to talk about this new and dreadful thing that had happened. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves, learning that they were about to be sold, would run away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accounts of African empires and the miracles of the Egyptian slaves who had erected pyramids. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Polly wondered as she glanced with boredom at the slave sale. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Glory, who was a descendant of slaves that had worked for the Cullinans, told me her history. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

New York and New Jersey, which contained the largest slave populations north of the Chesapeake, proved more recalcitrant for that very reason. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the American South during that same period, it would have been highly unusual for a white landowner to have such a public relationship with a slave. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There was no suggestion made as to how American slaveowners could obtain the slaves who had taken refuge in Canada. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after thirteen years of being your slave, I know you, Jackson. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told her of the panic-stricken talk in the quarter, told her that the slaves were afraid that the master, Dr. Thompson, would start selling them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would form seven patrols of six men each to roam the city on the lookout for slave catchers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The natives here were ready and waiting when the Portuguese showed up wanting to buy slaves, I pointed out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, don’t compliment the slaves on doing their jobs, my dear. Your kindness only makes them weak and careless.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally Cora’s mind tricked her and she’d turn the story into one of her memories, inserting the faces of ghosts, all the slave dead, who looked down at her with love and indulgence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Much of what they said could apply to any former slave who overheard them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The project was urgent enough to warrant filling the stomachs of slave laborers three times a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the background was another more-than-decent likelihood—that they, like me, were descended from slaves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Most of the thousands of slaves in Endovier received similar treatment—though an extra half-dozen guards always walked Celaena to and from the mines. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The curtains were thrown back, and a slave offered a hand to help Daenerys out. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This was not scourging some colored boy in the twilight or breaking up a slave festival for amusement. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As the juice boiled, a foul scum rose to the top—which a slave had to keep skimming off with a long-handled ladle. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He looked at them, shook his head sadly, then addressed the slaves in the white language, seemingly giving instructions. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winds kept roaring, the ship rolled, and the slaves chained beneath the decks suffered endlessly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Noah, hurry and finish loading,” Mr. Derby commanded the slave. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is another and more ominous side to the enterprise: it was built in part by slaves in chains, many captured by the pirate ships of Polycrates. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For while no slaves were freed by the bill, it marked a great change in the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Amari did not know the language of her captors, but she could tell they cursed as nets were cast overboard for the escaped slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Harriet Tubman freed the slaves, Hirohito and the boys showed off their karate kicks and chops and jujitsu moves. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were few plantations that could boast that they had never had a slave run away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of their master’s slave soldiers flung him into the back of the mule cart between the dwarfs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They drove the slave catcher’s wagon to the far edge of the pasture, hiding it from the road. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She thought of the Negroes she’d known as a child—well-fed and happy slaves, with no worries about finding employment. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably the same way they did on those slaves ships years ago. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

These slaves were listed by their first names with their approximate ages and their skills given. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

These measures effectively eliminated the risk of future alliances between black slaves and poor whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Daddy once told me there’s a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn’t stop the slave masters from hurting their families. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Even Missandei had been replaced; the king did not think it fit to use a child as his herald, and a onetime Naathi slave at that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The son of a New England farmer and shoemaker was being accused of aristocratic allegiances by an owner of slaves with vast estates, much of both inherited from his wife’s side of the family. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I named you after your granddaddy. The last slave in this family. Which means he was also the first free man in this family.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were just slaves fetching water for their master. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were girls barely able to toddle carrying infant slaves tied in slings to their backs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those people you met, they were expendable. To Snow, anyway. If the Capitol wins, what will it do with a bunch of damaged slaves?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My grandmother told me she keeps them as slaves. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Never had I felt so much the slave as when I scoured those stone steps each afternoon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathaniel Bacon was a white property owner in Jamestown, Virginia, who managed to unite slaves, indentured servants, and poor whites in a revolutionary effort to overthrow the planter elite. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He violated the bonds of affection, sometimes visiting slaves on their wedding night to show the husband the proper way to discharge his marital duty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Add to all this the sudden presence of 4 million newly freed slaves, and the picture becomes even more complicated. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. How do you do well at owning and trading in slaves?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

What had an old slave to do with humanity? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly still could not see how leaving with the doctor in the morning, heading to the slave market, would lead to a chance for freedom. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, but even if no Africans had been sold by other Africans, the transatlantic slave trade would still have happened. It was a European enterprise. It was about Europeans looking for labor for their plantations.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Chattel slaves had once trod those boards bearing food and drink on silver trays. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The master used it as a threat to recalcitrant slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If not for her, the slave catcher wouldn’t have obsessed so over Cora’s capture. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Traders in Africa paid for slaves with corn and then fed slaves corn when they were brought here. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The dodgem man waved at his slave in a booth, who pulled a lever, and every kid in the bumper rink went, At last! Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ten years old, Chester’s age, but imbued with the melancholy grace of an elderly house slave, the sum of practiced gestures. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was understood that the slaves were to remain there until Connelly dismissed them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Nowadays it seemed as though he were raising slaves just to sell them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time the slave soldiers of Yunkai’i had faced the dragon queen’s Unsullied, they broke and ran. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Lord Hamlet, it seems you see all women as deceivers, be they beautiful or ugly. Perhaps the fault lies in the man who trusts only his sight and is a slave to his base desire!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But before we got away from the buildings, we saw a group of slave children gathered around a tree stump. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that my own ancestors had been slaves in Virginia. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

This ritual has been done in secret since the first slaves worked the sugarcane fields on this island. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he briefly owned one slave, Duke was not known as a supporter of slavery, but in late 1863, when Duke was in his forties, the Confederacy began drafting men his age. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had insinuated themselves into the colored community there, Sam said, but a slave catcher nosed around and it was time to flee. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The slave’s body jerked and strained against its ropes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She came to that marriage with her slave Noah, lots of land, and piles of money, which is what ol’ Massa wanted.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In war—and to put down a slave rebellion was the most glorious call to arms—the patrollers transcended their origins to become a true army. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Wise Masters had established their slave pens and auction block just south of the Skahazadhan, where the wide brown river flowed into Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She responded, “You are not a slave, suppose you quit lecturing on slavery.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had tom down the old slave quarters on his property. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, I would of been a slave. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I read about the slave preacher Nat Turner, who put the fear of God into the white slavemaster. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he also said the streets were paved with gold. I think Cato’s story is just an old slave’s tale about a place that doesn’t even exist!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dawson, the grandson of a slave, went to work instead of school. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Urn, well, I painted the slave ship lost at sea to show that the souls of some of the Ibo are still not at rest.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was the sheriff what let them slave hunters lay over in that stable.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A slave stood beside their table, holding a lantern over the board. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He said, whole time he’s been in this country, he never heard the word ‘slave.’ The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every night, before these whispered conversations came to an end, one of the bolder slaves spoke of Denmark Vesey, voice pitched low, not much more than a murmuring in the firelit cabin. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finished it in two days and started again, rolling the words round his tongue, memorizing some sentences: The slaves became as fearful of the tar as of the lash. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That she had done something, nearly two years ago, when she had freed almost two hundred slaves from the Pirate Lord. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning the slaves were once again shackled and packed into boats. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, slave, how long am I to wait for my chariot?” thundered the Witch. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They speak about buying slaves the same way they discuss the purchase of cattle or supplies, Polly noticed, surprised at how uncomfortable that made her feel. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been one of the slaves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In revolutionary France, the defenders of slaves began to win the argument against the advocates of property rights. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the nation came together again after the bitter and bloody four-year Civil War, slaves had become free. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Johnny, followed by his subdued slaves, slipped down the ladder with an easy flop. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet she decided that she would not permit this new and stringent law to interfere with her plan to keep guiding slaves out of Dorchester County. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The saloon keeper was a ruthless boss, beating and insulting the wayward slave at every turn, stealing wages and dignity, the hard image of northern white attitudes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My master’s son-in-law, Captain Auld, was master of the vessel; she was otherwise manned by the colonel’s own slaves. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

The mischief in his eyes makes me forget, for a too-brief second, that I am a slave and that my brother is in prison and that everyone else I love is dead. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He laughed at her and said, “What you won? You ’bout to go back to being a slave. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Indeed, all the animals worked like slaves that year. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Four slave soldiers marched beside them, two on either side of the cart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He worked the rat crews like a slave driver. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

One reason they did so well in battle is precisely because the slave trade was flourishing. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

What gave the Spaniards a decisive advantage was smallpox, which reached Mexico in 1520 with one infected slave arriving from Spanish Cuba. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By using the word new, Farmer was playing on the term triangular trade, the trade that had created the French slave colony that eventually became Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Pro-French sympathies were further heightened in July by the sudden influx of 2,100 French refugees, who were fleeing a fierce slave rebellion in Santo Domingo. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Nothing but a bunch of stories about how we used to be slaves.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked at O-lan haggardly and he said, “Now am I truly tempted to sell the little slave and go north to the land.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Hast thou ever heard slave owners talk? They use that phrase to say the colored men are constitutionally unfit to mingle with whites.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There is a Chinese word for the female I—which is “slave.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

While this was sometimes done while the master still lived, manumission of slaves was more commonly a feature of wills. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to taking slaves and booty, wartime victors in central Mexico often burned their enemies’ codices, the hand-painted picture-texts in which priests recorded their people’s histories. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A fair number of courtiers, slaves and others were still moving about here but this only made the two girls less conspicuous. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Just the journey, not our troubles. Sylvie laughed. “As freed slaves we were given forty acres and a mule. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Clanker Lords had their slave soldiers drilling in the nearest field. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“She told us about this slave ship full of people from West Africa. They called themselves ‘Ibos.’” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

At first Harriet could not believe it possible that anyone could be taken out of the free state of Massachusetts and sent back to a slave state. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was once used to house the slaves the men’s college owned, but it’s empty now that slavery—the kind that ended with the War between the States, anyway—is no more. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was toward the end of the line, with the other enlisted slaves, his head bent forward, his face invisible. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

States are slaves, looked upon as property, as nothing but property. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three hours of rowing like galley slaves, distance had shrunk the island to the size of an open hand. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The slaves set up the heavy copper tub in the comer of the tent. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

New laws were passed in the slave states and the old laws were more rigidly enforced. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The memories of the ancestors, long buried within her, had emerged majestically. The other slaves looked up to the sky and saw Zalika flying, and the memories came flooding back to them as well. ‘ Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I revolved in my head passages of ancient texts that recalled how Britons had been slaves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had no idea about sex slaves in Dubai. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He told her that Fletcher had made contact with one slave previous but the man never made it to the rendezvous. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You’d be nothing but a slave. Do you think your husband would let you run off on visits? Husband! How could anyone think of marrying you off? You don’t look over eleven.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yezzan’s other slaves had refused to go near the overseer once the cramps began, so it was left to Tyrion to keep him warm and.bring him drinks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She believes in many gods just as African slaves did. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The quarters of all the nearby plantations were thoroughly searched and no small number of slaves beaten on principle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“No governess! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without a governess! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your education.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

But she had a sharp tongue and would beat a slave for next to nothin’.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something twisted in her gut at the thought of all those slaves she’d left behind in Endovier, all those people doomed to suffer until they died. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Lee she used like a slave since she didn’t quite believe in him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We pry your slaves’ cuffs off and pull you out of the school. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was pretty sure destroying the whole boat was exactly what Missy wanted to do, and under any other circumstances Magdalys would have happily let her smash an escaping slave ship to smithereens. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

All those years, black people were slaves, growing cotton and getting whipped over it—why in the world would anyone want to name a church after it? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The door of the slave quarters was slightly ajar, but Ignatius threw himself against it anyway, shattering several panes of glass. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s a Mask and I’m a slave, and thinking of him in this way is so wrong that I wonder for a second if the beating Marcus gave me has muddled my brain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Its members were murdered almost immediately upon setting foot on the beach by a party of Nootka slave raiders. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk- story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t need weapons because he is one, particularly when faced with a slave who barely comes up to his shoulder. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Braavos had been founded by escaped slaves, and the slave trade was forbidden here. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She could not, for example, have said how or at what moment she learned that she was a slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

While states in the North abolished it, the South considered slave labor to be essential to its economic success. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The amendment established that basic rights of citizenship—including suffrage—would be granted to male former slaves, and by specifying the sex it explicitly denied those rights to women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It has never been an economic proposition for an owner of cattle to starve his cows, so why should an owner of slaves starve them? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He buys tall slaves from all over the world, mates the men to the women, and keeps their tallest offspring for the Herons. One day he hopes to be able to dispense with the stilts.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

During these years Harriet Tubman made eleven trips into Maryland to bring out slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The country frightened slave owners; it did not change their views. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Although Northern slavery had been abolished, every black person was still presumed a slave—by law—and could not testify or introduce evidence in court. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She soon learned that many of these people were fugitive slaves like herself. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to hire one of the master’s slaves, preferably a girl, and young, because she couldn’t pay very much. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At sixteen hundred the pace began to flag again, so the slave trader invited some of the buyers to come up for a closer look at the dwarfs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, “There’s so much...I want to know everything, but I don’t know where to start. Why am I a slave?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly the artist, George Robertson, wanted it to look peaceful and beautiful, and to make slaves look meek and humble. the sugar islands—if, that is, the colonists or the French followed the rules. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

One was small and stunted, though the slave soldiers who attended him were grotesquely tall and thin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One of the slaves who could read used to tell the others what it said on those handbills that were nailed up on the trees, along the edge of the roads. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year after the Quinn Chapel meeting, a posse of slave catchers came up out of Maryland into Christiana, Pennsylvania, acting on information that four slaves were hiding out at a free black farmer’s home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Smallpox also ruined the British plan to raise an army of slaves and indentured servants by promising them freedom after the war—the disease killed off most of the “Ethiopian regiment” even as it assembled. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was he who eventually brought help to the slave catcher, out in the forest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“How could you not know what it’s like to be a slave. You are one.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

An old man with a turnip cradled against his chest said, “You kill us, you starve us, now you want t’ make us slaves.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Out of sight of the Big House, but not quite out of hearing, was the “quarter” where the slaves lived. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janice brandished her silver cap gun at us tired and scared runaway slaves more than Sister Pat’s script had called for. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the house slaves told him the brothers were drinking at the big house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I made my way along the streets seen only by cats, rats, and a slave hurrying by with a bundle on her head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

English were building factories, drinking tea, and organizing against the slave trade, the vast majority of Russians were serfs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She glanced around and saw that most of the slaves, and some of the sailors as well, had difficulty adjusting to land after such a long time journeying on the ocean. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, to punish one slave he'gagged him; locked his hands together; rubbed him with molasses Sc exposed him naked to the flies all day, and to the mosquitoes all night.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

This was a good thing, for of course it was now harder for anyone to see Aravis once a slave was in front of her and she was looking between his heels. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She meant that in other states slaves got Sunday off to worship God. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“We know not what transpired while she was immured in the slave castle.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In the 1850s, Chinese workers were not well paid, but neither were they slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher tackled him and they both tumbled into the dirt. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He said, “Surely it don’t have anything to do with them selling the sickliest slaves up New England way after no one buys them down South.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She said Philadelphia was the best city for freed slaves or freeborn Africans. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One had a great array of slaves; and at length, we decided to approach one, claiming that we had newly run away, and request he bring us clothing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

No other slave—house or field—had that much freedom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am. I cannot do this. This child make me think about bein’ slave.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Equiano explained, the sugar slaves could hardly rest even when their day was done. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was resented, of course, by slaves who made every effort to avoid jobs they didn’t like. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

After the terrible wound in her head had healed, she became aware of the admiration of the other slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was much toil, and still complaints from the trustees’ overseers that the slaves were unaccountably lazy and devious. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When she got to the part about the slaves touching Our Lady’s heart and how she filled them with fearlessness and plans of escape, June turned up the volume. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Parliament listened to the sugar lords, the colonists felt helpless, as if they were slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You did what you had to do, right? To save us from being Erudite slaves. She’ll see that eventually. When the grief fades.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Both were naked but for towels, and lying side by side on stone benches, pouring sweat caused by the heating beneath the floors, while slaves massaged their muscles and used scrapers to clean their skin. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Aspirant Veturius, delivering me from my murderer so I can die on a slave’s pallet instead of a stone floor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“A speculator was one of those people who went from plantation to plantation looking for slaves they could buy,” Miss Pat said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In September 1862, President Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring freedom for slaves in the Confederate states as of January 1, 1863. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A slave caught on the road, alone, without a pass, would be whipped. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again Amari wondered how a slave owner could speak so strongly about freedom. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth was a gesture toward the northern interests, authorizing Congress to levy a tax on slave imports designed to discourage the practice without prohibiting it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jamaica had already seen many slave revolts, Trelawney Town in Jamaica shows how threatening the Haitian revolt was to slaveholders everywhere. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Soon they began building Muslim-style sugar plantations on the islands, some of them staffed by slaves purchased from nearby Africa. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the end, the slave’s choice lay before them, as ever: anyplace but where they had escaped. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But I’m missing credit payments left and right, and I still have to make rent, so I catch a slave at the Parker House, a big restaurant downtown. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the slaves were prisoners of war—rebels who survived the butchering blocks and endless lines of Adarlan’s armies. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Those bearers were slaves before I came. 1 made them free. Yet that palanquin is no lighter.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Stop now,” scolded the woman in the boat, “you’ve frightened her. She thinks we’re brigands who are going to sell her for a slave.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That same strong current made it easy to bring slaves across the Atlantic to Brazil, and over the next four hundred years some three million Africans were taken to Brazil. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Fletcher flogged and arrested, more likely lynched for harboring no mere slaves but murderers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His mother had been born a slave, and after freedom she was a washerwoman. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps a pack of tame hunting dogs used to tracking runaway slaves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas in England even abolitionists portrayed humble slaves on their knees pleading for freedom, in this coin designed for use in Africa, the English and the African are shown as nearly equal. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The girl had a sullen look on her face, and she seemed to be the only person not interested in what was going on at the slave sale. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She trusted the slave’s choice to guide her—anywhere, anywhere but where you are escaping from. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Once the ship arrived in Surinam, the slaves were sold at auction to plantation owners. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The flattening of the third and seventh notches on the scale is consistent with centuries-old African melody modes, memories of which had clearly not been lost among the children and grandchildren of slaves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In fact, the state that slaves called Lousy Anna was the very worst place for an African in America; it was the Caribbean all over again—a death sentence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But the day’s picking lay before the slaves foremost and they stooped to their orders, enduring the dogs’ terrible noise and the visions of blood to come. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Four of every five of them are slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Preoccupied by her uncomfortable refuge and the parade of misfortunes since the slave catchers found them out, Cora did not immediately notice an important feature of the park: Everyone was white. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The next day the slaves were taken in groups from the ship. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slave trade once flourished in Africa, the Praise Singer said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And I went to the laundry yard to help a young slave named Tess to beat and boil the dirt out of a lot of heavy smelly clothes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Garner helped in her own way, teaching her slaves their letters so they could receive the word of God with their own eyes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Leaving you alone, but for four cage slaves who were fast asleep.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The slaves were nor required to work—as long as the Yule logs burned in the fireplaces. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darlene Wood was beginning to get miffed because all the brothers had gotten rid of their slave names but Minister Fard hadn’t gotten around to the girls yet, so here she was, still Darlene Wood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was smiling and watching the slaves do a bowing, partner-changing dance to the music of a banjo. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They could talk about anything they wished, including the gradual abolition of slavery itself, though he felt that Congress was unlikely to take any dramatic action “tending to the emancipation of the slaves.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“She’s a slave,” the Commandant says, as if that explains everything. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She would help these six people get adjusted to life in St. Catharines, and then in a few more months she would go back to Maryland to help another group of slaves escape. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There someone was crying for help in the slave quarters. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin sheen of sweat covered the slave’s slim body. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still a dishwashing slave, but it pays better, and I’m always moving. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once having done that, the slaves would rise up and flock to him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three of us among the servants made a little consort of music—I on the violin, an indentured Irishman who also played the fiddle, and a slave from another house who played the flageolet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This time she told them about the long agony of the Middle Passage on the old slave ships, about the black horror of the holds, about the chains and the whips. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackie Robinson is the grandson of a slave, the son of a sharecropper, raised in poverty by a lone mother who took in ironing and washing. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I never hate before I be a slave.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that her brothers and sisters, her father and mother, and all the other people who lived in the quarter, men, women and children, were slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, I—" "You just a slave," sneered Major. "You was born a slave. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A silver-haired Martial with a soldier’s build—the captain, I assume—is overseeing a group of Plebeians and Scholar slaves stacking boxes of cargo. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And as fer human goodness—men’s hearts is jest as black today as in the Roman times when they nailed slaves to crosses by the hunderd and left ’em there to point up a lesson.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness in the slaves’ quarters was cut only by rushlights. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On slave ships, newly captured Africans were forcibly shaved in a profound act of dehumanization, an act that effectively severed the link between hair and cultural identity. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The first khalasar they met would swallow up her ragged band, slaying the warriors and slaving the rest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

While he thought the Constitution was crystal clear that Congress could not restrict or terminate the slave trade before 1808, it did not prohibit the members of the House from talking about the issue. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His guardsmen, five slave warriors of the Fiery Hand, led the responses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The result was the famous Mason and Dixon line, which later took on symbolic importance as the dividing line between the slave and free states. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We met a blue monkey and were slaves in a plastic mine. Tendai and I were accused of witchcraft. Oh! And we had chicken pox.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Situated in the coastal plain of southwest Alabama, the fertile, rich black soil of the area attracted white settlers from the Carolinas who amassed very successful plantations and a huge slave population. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The cotton the slaves were growing became the major export for this new country. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Under her guidance, over three hundred slaves had reached the North and freedom. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The English were eagerly filling Antigua, Nevis, Saint Kitts, and Montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

For many Hitler Youth, the realization that they had worked and slaved for a criminal cause came about only after a period of many years. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Large numbers of former slaves roamed the highways in the early years after the war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was the fashion in the Free City of Volantis to tattoo the faces of slaves and servants; from neck to scalp the boy's skin had been patterned in squares of red and green motley. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Although the Japanese said they were liberating the island, they used the native people like slaves, beating or killing them if they tried to escape. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All talked of the rebel colonel trussed and bagged by his own two slaves, that had been whipped by him previous—and there was an elation in this tale of justice reflected in all eyes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The boy was probably a slave, I realized, the property of Rufus’s family. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that, according to many Christians, I was a descendant of Ham, who had been cursed, and that I was therefore predestined to be a slave. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

And whites saw mulattoes—the children of those relationships — as potential allies, a buffer between them and the enormous numbers of slaves on the island. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The master kept selling slaves because he needed money. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her true love is an abolitionist who fights for the freedom of slaves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mackay told us that the Children’s Crusade started in 1213, when two monks got the idea of raising armies of children in Germany and France, and selling them in North Africa as slaves. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In short, the Quaker petition for an end of the slave trade was really a stalking horse for a more radical and thoroughgoing scheme to end the institution of slavery itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And he gave the slave a little silver, and the woman was content enough except for one thing, and this she told to Wang Lung when he gave her the silver. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ll be; him being the son of a slave owner and all,” Mama said. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The order left both sides unhappy: Northern abolitionists were dissatisfied because the Emancipation Proclamation did not outlaw slavery everywhere; Southern slaveholders were enraged because it freed millions of slaves living in their states. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, it does me good. I’m sick of being a sniveling wage slave.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted it to raise the seas, take hold of every slaving ship, shatter their masts, and smash their hulls against unforgiving shores. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She may even have borrowed slaves while in Surinam; she mentions both “servants” and “slaves” that helped her plant, gather specimens, and travel through the jungle. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The master had invited his friends to send their slaves to help shuck the com. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The dragon queen frees slaves and so do I,” he proclaimed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When those in the central plateau staged a rebellion—refusing to be treated as slaves—their insurrection was put down violently by Marine-supervised Haitian police, not unlike the French masters had done to their ancestors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking we can bring in a few more slaves,” he told Clay. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the half-light of evening the dung carts had come out, attended by half-naked slaves whose task it was to shovel up the steaming piles left by elephants both great and small. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They conjured: You cannot stare that hatred down or chain the fear that stalks the watches I was not in any slave ship. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The coin was not actually minted until the 1830s, when it was used in Sierra Leone, the African colony designed for freed slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

During the day the slaves were fed and their wounds were treated, but at night fear was the blanket that covered each of them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slave girl gently petted the dog under the table, looking as if she was trying to follow the conversation. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The holiday for the field slaves lasted as long as the Yule log burned in the fireplace at the Big House. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They liked to call me "field slave" and "sharecropper." Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not all conquered people are turned into slaves. In the Southern Lands, the Lake People conquered the Fens and brought them into the fold—” “What is wrong with you?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

One of them suddenly cried out in despair, “Let me go back. It is better to be a slave than to suffer like this in order to be free.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

While many of his peers owned slaves, Socrates said, “Slavery is a system of outrage and robbery.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

One time, seven free slaves came into the Settlement all at once and the Preacher took it on hisself to welcome ’em. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But every one of us, except the Negroes forced here as slaves, are descended from the restless ones, the wayward ones who were not content to stay at home. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly continued, “My father worked like an ordinary slave on a tobacco farm.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They searched slave villages at will and took liberties as they ransacked the homes of freemen, stealing hard-earned linens or making licentious advances. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But, paradoxically, that gave Haitian slave owners a new home. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They even raided a slaving ship near the port in Leflin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We had lost males before, cousins and uncles who were conscripted into armies or bonded as apprentices, who are almost as lowly as slave girls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where did you sleep last night?” she demanded in the strident, accusing voice she reserved for slaves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"This is the way of war. These women are our slaves now, to do with as we please." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We don’t hold with slaves being auctioned on our front steps. Won’t stand for it, in fact.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two snakes full of poison” is how Patsy Mitchner, a former slave, summed up her experience before and after the war. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

All of Momma’s terrible stories of slave life in the islands flooded back. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Terrance appeared on his brother’s plantation, he usually appraised each slave and made a note of which men were the most able and which women the most appealing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For the first time, it sinks in that Izzi has been a slave nearly her whole life. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That chant did more than threaten a slave revolt—it was a challenge to all ranking hierarchies. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When she was dying, wracked with her irruptions, in the slave quarters of that house in Canaan, this libation sat by her, untouched. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Piteous slaves chained neck to neck, shuffling in step. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The slaves were still about, stealing a farmer’s chickens in a morning raid, but the hounds had the scent. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If she took the Greenwich Road or the Post Road, she’d likely be captured by one in need of a slave or in need of the reward paid for a healthy runaway. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the kitchen house slaving over a hot stove when everybody came running by. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bent-backed, wrinkled, and toothless, he was carried to the table by two strapping slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Natives who had lost their lives in the white man’s push across the continent rubbed elbows with runaway slaves who never tasted freedom until their last breath. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had never been cruel to his slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that the majority of the slaves worked in the cotton fields from six in the morning until nine or ten at night with only a fifteen-minute break for a meal and water. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And certainly he was muscular, but anybody would be muscular who slaved all day. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“With all due respect, sir, that’s because the first thing you do when you get a new slave is take her eye out.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He favored a pidgin of his lost African tongue and slave talk. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A financial reckoning was inevitable, but come the approaching conflict over the race question, North Carolina would emerge in the most advantageous position of all the slave states. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Fighting for freedom, the former slaves defeated the armies of first England, then France: Europe's two most powerful nations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Pap said as harsh as Cap’n Buck was on the white farmers near the Tanner plantation, he was even worst on the slaves that dared cross him. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Beneath the walls of Isengard there still were acres tilled by the slaves of Saruman; but most of the valley had become a wilderness of weeds and thorns. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Some 500,000 slaves were brought here, and there were four million enslaved African Americans at the time of emancipation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“And you let yourself be made a slave? You should run away.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The governor of the colony rushed toward the burning plantations, where he met a group of armed slaves, and asked them what they wanted. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She should be telling me about signs, about how black crows are freedom birds, symbols for slaves flying back to Africa. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Born a slave before the Civil War, Mcjunkin had no formal education—he had only learned to read as an adult. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But he thought a sister who gave me a “pad,” not charging me rent, not even running me out to find “some slave,” couldn’t be all bad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sugar plantations were Hell because of the endless labor they demanded from slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

People didn’t like seeing slaves like that, and people don’t like seeing a woman like that now either. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thrown overboard to the sharks that had learned that following these slave ships was the way to grow fat! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jepson’s slaves would boast his ability to whip Colonel Lloyd. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he wanted to marry her and she was a slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whips slashed across the backs of the remaining slaves once more, as if those still alive had to pay for the loss of the two who had died. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t make me a racist. I’m not letting you guys guilt trip me like this. What’s next? You want me to apologize because my ancestors were slave masters or something stupid?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The leaders of the American Revolution kept close watch as the former slaves fought for their freedom in Haiti. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Behind him stood a barber, a slave, I assumed because of his African skin, with grizzled hair and an apron. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny didn’t have the patience for raising children, so when Eliza died, he took them all back to Clover, Virginia, where his family still farmed the tobacco fields their ancestors had worked as slaves. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

How happy it will be, he continued, “when there shall be neither a slave nor a drunkard on the earth.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She knew that Polly could make it alone and would certainly find refuge quicker without the presence of two runaway slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Slavery just makes good sense to me. Anyway, our slaves are better off here than in some jungle eating bugs and slugs like savages.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overseers watched closely to make sure of that, beating slaves who did not carve out at least twenty-eight holes an hour on one French island. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Everybody did. Everybody who had been slaves, that is. Whether they left the state or not. But we were never slaves, so—” “You told me that. Weren’t any of Jake’s brothers registering too?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unless you happened to be a slave,” I pointed out. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In January, 1863, shortly after Lincoln had proclaimed the slaves free, she saw a regiment of Negro soldiers for the first time. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'd say things like "Who died and made you king?" or "It must be nice to have your own personal slave." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Yet the Americans claimed that they needed to resist the tax, or they would be mere slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Through a misunderstanding, some children reported for duty at Genoa, where no slave ships were waiting. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t a slave; she was a valued member of the Dregs, a thief of secrets, the best in the Barrel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now that she noticed, there were countless chained slaves working the docks, lifting and sweating, holding parasols and pouring water, eyes on the ground or the sky—never on what was before them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In return he gained the eternal fear of any slave with a notion to learn his letters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He told me his story, a South African story that was all too familiar to me: The man grows up under apartheid, working on a farm, part of what’s essentially a slave labor force. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They would try to keep you talking to find out what kind of mistress you were to your slaves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What bus the Lion ever done for you that you should he his slave?” said the Witch. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I cannot be a slave, I will not be a slave . Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Surveyor at work: Teenager George Washington holds a surveying tool while a helper lets out distance-measuring chain and a slave looks on. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves had erected her tent by the shore of a spring-fed pool. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, Clarkson brandished whips and handcuffs used on slaves; he published testimonials from sailors and ship doctors who described the atrocities and punishments on slave ships. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When she thought of the restrictions imposed on the slave population, she longed to return to Maryland to bring out more slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Moor’s slaves—in other words the chorus—had taken up their song a bar too soon and this had nullified the simple rhythm of the magic bells. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He, the old slave, showing a surprising knowledge of such matters—germology and scabology—ha! ha!—he called it, and what a youthful skill of the hands! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my turn came, I handed my buckets to the ancient slave who worked the pump handle, a man old as dirt, with stone-gray hair and skin the color of the night sky. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indoors he had an old slave woman, a Sikel, keeping house for him in his secluded age. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slave girl had not been far wrong, she thought. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We will take you to the castle and they will set you up fine. You no longer will be a slave. Tou will be a paid servant. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were followed by a rough- looking militia unit that was trailed by a group of slaves carrying shovels and pickaxes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Africans who sold other Africans as slaves insisted on being paid in fabrics from India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“A clever slave deserves a clever master, and you lot all look like fools.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hard by the bay was the abomination, the slave market at her door. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“So many slaves ... where are they all going?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some folk grumbled about servants and slaves being forced to sit in the upstairs gallery. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is an obvious reason why we focus on those particular facts: blacks are the sole native Africans familiar to most Americans, because they were brought in large numbers as slaves to the United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Is it not ever thus, the attempts to parley between master and slave, and perhaps between all men—is it not always words shouted across the shifting flood, torn away by wind? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And in this moment, I can’t think about the mission, or the fact that I’m a spy, not a slave. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Not only did the slaves need to This 1875 engraving of a sugar harvest in Louisiana shows the factory near the fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She walked along the dirt road, thinking about Barrett’s slave, and how he had run down this same road, with the overseer close behind him, and she behind the overseer. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The knowledge that she was still a slave bothered her more and more. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not to be installed in his household, where she could observe and absorb fine living, but would be forced to live with this slave girl instead. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been there only a moment or so when a slave rushed out screaming, “Treason! Our master! Treason!” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, for example, opponents of the Constitution objected to the implicit acceptance of slavery’s persistence, represented by the three-fifths clause and the twenty-year extension of the slave trade. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“There is resilience in your blood too. The willpower to endure seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Though your ancestors were once slaves, their descendants fought for equal rights.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Once his will was captured by the power of the Stone, then they would let the shadow into the walls, for a gebbeth was a better slave even than a man. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker—the meeting place of the barbarism of overseers such as Thomas Thistlewood and the rigid new economy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They had saved him from the shadow, indeed, for they did not want him to be possessed by the shadow until he had become a slave of the Stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after his arrival, he bought a slave woman and took her as his concubine. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At first many of the slaves working sugar plantations in the Mediterranean were Russians, or anyone captured in war. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“If you’re late, I’ll take every minute out of your hide. Or”—she tilts her head thoughtfully—“the slave’s, if you prefer.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Most planters couldn’t tell one slave from another, even after taking them to bed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The instant the long blue line marched into town, the slaves of Richmond were free. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard of such dogs, they’re similar to the dogs the slave patrols used to hunt down runaways in the old days. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Once again the slaves were forbidden to sing “Go down, Moses,” the song with the sound of thunder in the chorus: “Let my people go! ” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s enthusiasm for me is duller than for the .slave girl; nor did I replace the older brother and sister who died while they were still cuddly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Commandant thinks I’m dead, so if I can get the slaves’ cuffs off, I might be able to leave Serra. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They were understood, quite literally, to be slaves of the state. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There are no records of Fannie’s life, but she was most likely born a slave on the Lacks property, and like most Lacks slaves who stayed on the plantation as sharecroppers, she never left. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the threat of violence often deterred blacks from pressing legitimate claims, making the “civil rights” of former slaves largely illusory—existing on paper but rarely to be found in real life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“What the hell are you doing in a dark hallway with a slave?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

While many abolitionist groups favored a gradual approach to ending slavery, the women of Birmingham read and discussed Elizabeth Heyrick’s argument that all slaves must be freed at once. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

His strength will increase as a snow-ball, by rolling, and faster, if some expedient cannot be hit upon to convince the slaves and servants of the impotency of his designs. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

History shows that an educated slave always begins to ask, and next demand, equality with his master. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to his “field” slaves, he was a monster, whose preferred punishment for those who tried to run away was what he called “Derby’s dose.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And though they might not be shackled or whipped like slaves, their lives were completely controlled by the terrifying overseers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Actually it only served to widen it, primarily because of the terms of the new law covering fugitive slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The overseer could not hope to whip the slave unless someone helped tie him up. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany had refused to compensate any of the Great Masters for the value of their slaves, but the Meereenese kept devising other ways to squeeze coin from her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The slaves used them to cure all sorts of ailments, fevers and intestinal disorders. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore shoes that Rufus had had made specifically for her, not the rough heavy shoes or boots other slaves wore. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Democrats were only secondarily interested in terrorizing the newly freed blacks—and then mostly because the former slaves had made political alliances with the Republicans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most former slaves voted for the Republicans, Lincoln’s party, with some Black men winning election to political office. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

By their labor the slave populations allow the tempo of continuous warfare to be speeded up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I saw your little black girl talking to a rebel officer on Warren Street. Do you allow your slaves to consort with the enemy?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll find out soon enough. We’re stuck inside today. Commandant said any slave out on the grounds will be killed on sight.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He did not like sitting beneath her, and he fumed when the slaves offered each dish first to the khal and his bride, and served him from the portions they refused. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As Pennsylvania was a free state and Maryland was a slave state, it came to be regarded as the border between the free North and slaveholding South. k Several Civil War battles have two names. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Amari figured she was waiting for her opportunity to work there instead of in the kitchen with the slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

These slaves would be far easier to control and far less likely to form alliances with poor whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

France had freed slaves but then consumed itself in violence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She escaped to freedom with her infant daughter in 1826 and gained legal freedom a year later when a New York law freed slaves under age forty. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby grabbed the arm of his new slave and attempted to lead her off the stage, but for some reason she just went wild. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most of his fellow Virginians, he wanted it known that he preferred an early end to the slave trade and regarded the institution of slavery “a deep-rooted abuse.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the time the slave owner had resumed his search, Harriet had made her way safely to freedom. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Afterward another slave spread a stinging ointment across the cuts on his back to keep them from mortifying, then covered them with a cool poultice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Let a little slave do your shopping for you,” the older girls chorused. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jasmine was born nine months after one such visit, and now the Delanys owned two slaves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The knight absorbed the beatings silently; the only sounds were the muttered curses of the slaves who beat him and the dull thuds of their clubs pounding against Ser Jorah’s bruised and battered flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Listen! It wasn’t our fault. It was Julius’s. And the slaves’. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Most times when new-free slaves come to Buxton they get helped here by a Underground Railroad conductor, but every once in the while they find us all on their own. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The male slaves, unlike the women, were not allowed to stay on the deck after they had been fed and made to dance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We enter an Illustrian market, scattering slaves in our wake before turning a corner. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Why was I still slave to a man who had repaid me for saving his life by nearly killing me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If you were a thing—a cart or a horse or a slave—your value determined your possibilities. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Polly said nothing more, but she looked long and hard at the slave girl’s face. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe we ’re going to be slaves\\ The Mellower had told them about such things in bedtime stories. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was therefore necessary for Moses to find the people of Israel slaves in Egypt and oppressed by the Egyptians, in order that they might be disposed to follow him to escape this servitude. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop blubbering,” he says as the slave leads us upstairs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had, first, given himself an outrageous beating and thrown some rags on—like a household slave— then slipped into that city of wide lanes among his enemies. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baugi had nine slaves, giants like himself, and they were cutting the grass for hay with huge scythes, each scythe the size of a small tree. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was a hero to his people and a terror to the European slave holders. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He expected ex-slaves from the island to spread into America, preaching freedom and rebellion to the slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was as if a martyr, a hero, had passed a slave or victim, and imparted strength in the transit. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Proud men might shout that they would sooner die free than live as slaves, but pride was cheap. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“That is why the Yunkai’i have thrown up this market. They will leave here with thousands of new slaves.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He pointed out that Republicans had given citizenship to four million slaves. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The women were placed in small boats similar to the ones that had taken them away from their homeland; fewer boats were needed to unload the surviving slaves than when they had started out. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these planters led the way in freeing Cuban slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe she knew him before she became a slave. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

All the growned folks that hadn’t never learnt to read nor write whilst they were ’slaved in America had to take lessons at the schoolhouse at night. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, why, then, should the operatives themselves fear us? It is, dear Lyddie, the nature of slavery to make the slave fear freedom.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why. I guess that’s the way the farming business goes. And the master started selling his slaves.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It must be terrible to be a slave!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were mostly slaves, sent by their masters to dig trenches and build walls. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Praise for the girl who survived the Seam and the Hunger Games, then turned a country of slaves into an army of freedom fighters. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We came upon torches and a crowd of men who blocked the road—slave patrollers seeking runaways. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But she answered with a sullenness deeper than ever upon her face, “I am not slave of slaves in this house at least.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“There is a large reward, sir, for the return of these slaves,” she said slowly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa’s always telling me how being in America is unbelievable hard for slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The slaves erected Khal Drogo's tent beneath a jagged outcrop of black rock whose shadow gave some relief from the heat of the afternoon sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“They gave me a slave pass,” as he described it, “and I used it for mischief.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“To prove that they’re not fugitive slaves, of course. You know we’ve had terrible trouble with that these days: contraband. It’s illegal to harbor fugitives, particularly in a time of war.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Our slave foreparents would have been put to death for advocating so-called ‘integration’ with the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The British Lord Dunmore in Virginia offered freedom—total freedom—to any slave who escapes to his camp.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arena was cleared and the blood was being raked over by a small army of slaves. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

We got moving quickly, before the day’s soldiers and slaves arrived. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Come here, slave,” said the old lady carelessly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The slave girl never opened her eyes; she just curled herself into a ball and huddled in that corner of the wagon. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the availability of slaves undermined the economic motive for the development of technology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for all that, at the end of the day, they were still slaves. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t even need to keep my slave at Townsend’s. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was there to look forward to but years and years of slaving away? Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves told it with relish, the masters with distaste. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Romans did not have the printing press, but they had plenty of books, and slaves to copy them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

No, they double their efforts and keep slaving away. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that same year, in August, in October, in November, the slaves in the quarter and the masters in the Big Houses began to talk about another story. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They abandoned their heavy reliance on indentured servants in favor of the importation of more black slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I saw masks of iron with metal mouth-bits for the slave to suck to enforce absolute silence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

People started coming toward the boats, coming down the paths, through the meadows, for on each side of the river there were rice fields and slaves working in them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will not be the first royal son of a slave to be secreted in the bulrushes.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The slaves of the northern half converged on the alley, haltingly, trying to insinuate themselves into their previous rhythm and put on a show. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher whispered his address and the black boy recorded his words. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Kate made a slave of him just as he had always made slaves of women. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In history class, Gogol has learned that European immigrants had their names changed at Ellis Island, that slaves renamed themselves once they were emancipated. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The slave mothers said, Mind yourself or Mister Ridgeway will come for you. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His rambling remarks described the predicament of slave owners as truly tragic and not of their own making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Because chiefdoms and state societies have economic specialization, the defeated can be used as slaves, as commonly happened in biblical times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, Timmy, who had slipped out to the slave quarters again to look for his missing charm bracelet and, he hoped, more games with the chains, appeared in the living room. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben was such a good workman, the master had placed him in charge of the slaves who cut the timber. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Made him feel worse than I did watching poor Trevor leveling the floor like some drifter slaving for a night’s rest in a bed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, chile, it be hard for a woman to be a slave,” Inez replied slowly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swarms of flies followed the carts, so the dung slaves had flies tattooed upon their cheeks, to mark them for what they were. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Casually, as if she hadn’t just nearly murdered a slave, she opens the door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But then, if they’d never taken him, we would all of us still be slaves.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They intended to use the healthiest Jews as slave labor in their factories. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As her mother slaved away as a servant, little Soledad wandered the pastures, trailing moon glimmer, side by side with her only friend, the cow. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take all my money out of the bank, $120, money I earned slaving away at my mother’s bakery, and buy a one-way bus ticket to Miami. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years, since I began school, I had from time to time heard people around me say that whites had built blacks schools only to teach us how to be their slaves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One woman and a slave and no help anywhere. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet remembered a speech: In a land where all slaves are servants, all servants are slaves, and thus ends democracy. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a spray and a spurt of crimson in the sunlight, and the bodies of the slaves crumpled and twitched and one by one fell to the freshly cut grass. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need this slave,” I snap, to cover the sting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

How if a person dies, and their body is stolen by a zombie master, the zombie master will make the body rise and work all day and all night as a slave. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your ancestors owned slaves just like mine did. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The slaves had to sneak away in the night and take their chances with the patrollers if they wanted to have any kind of religious meeting. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Citra was at the dining room table, slaving over a particularly difficult algebra problem, shuffling variables, unable to solve for X or Y, when this new and far more pernicious variable entered her life’s equation. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She was certain that even timid, frightened slaves would run away if someone they could trust offered to guide them to the North. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I’ve been working like a slave, much harder than I’ve ever worked in the onion fields, but I feel as though nothing mattered except just to be alive right at this moment. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

In the slave years any attempt at literacy among Negroes was severely punished. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t imagine you like this much. Can’t say I blame you. But don’t lose your head. Madam is not afraid to beat her slaves.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves insisted they were not property; like the Jews in Egypt, they were God’s children, who were owed their basic human rights. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She claims it’s wrong he keeps poor Isaura as a slave, yet she doesn’t think it’s wrong she keeps me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johns Hopkins was born on a tobacco plantation in Maryland where his father later freed his slaves nearly sixty years before Emancipation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But it was wrong that a slave should carelessly drop off to sleep when he was supposed to be on duty. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They might not be as efficient, but anything was better than a mindless army of slaves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Funny. I found myself wishing you were a slave so I could refuse you. Of course you can go if you want to. I’ll even lend you money for your bookstore.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Groups of Maori began to walk through Moriori settlements, announcing that the Moriori were now their slaves, and killing those who objected. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves did not see the money, of course. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the scuffle that followed, the slaves scattered and were able to reach safety in Canada, but one of the slave catchers was killed, and members of the patrol were arrested. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Serjeant Clippinger hung back, for the presence of a white man would do nothing but alarm a slave queried in such a manner. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I want to urge the boat faster, but the slaves are already rowing furiously, the captain’s whip at their backs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We saw him kill a slave and a newborn baby the night before we left.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her with her begging forgiveness for not buying me and telling me I’d have been a good slave for her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari could hear laughter of men on boats and slow, sad chants of slaves working in the rice fields nearby, finishing up their labors for the day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

James Randall had bought him and three other slaves from a traveling agent after the fever deaths a year and a half ago. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered if it bothered any of them, knowing that thousands of indentured slaves lived and toiled here in the same building, just a few floors away from them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher stiffened as he read aloud the sign at the crossroads. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I was an unknown, after all—an unpredictable new slave. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I shucked off my slave rags, put on my master’s clothes, and rode off on his horse to my freedom,” Captain Smith finishes his story. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Marines let loose a volley, and the slave fell into the waves and sank, then rose again, and sank while the women screamed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Born slave or born free, most could tell a tale of escape. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Amari knew, of course, what slaves were— some of the wealthier elders in her own village had a few slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called his slaves all together in the yard. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The unsold slaves must have watched them with envy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

These television shows, especially those that romanticize drug-law enforcement, are the modern-day equivalent of the old movies portraying happy slaves, the fictional gloss placed on a brutal system of racialized oppression and control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This whispering about freedom, about runaways, about manumission, went on every night, in windowless slave cabins all over the South. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had ordered all of us to watch the beating—all the slaves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was now a crime to teach a slave to read or to write. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing would ever stop her from helping them, not masters or slave catchers, or overseers or fugitive slave laws. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed I would kill him to free his slaves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Their quarry was long gone, but the reminder of the slave patrols exposed the precarious nature of the residents’ lives. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They had no trouble with the philosophical contradiction of cherishing the children they had with a slave and simultaneously thinking of slaves as property. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They are, in the language of the slave’s poet, Whittier,— Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Although Amari could not understand the language of the white men, she soon began to recognize words they repeated often, such as “slave” and “price.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether she took in washing for a living, or was merely the slave of twenty or thirty grandchildren. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Besides, in those days they had been slaves and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not fail to point out. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Thus if a Southern plantation owner said you were a slave, you were—unless a white person interceded in a court of law on your behalf and testified that you were rightfully free. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She sat as far away as she could from the African slave girl, making sure the bundles separated them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I have to share my bed will she share my work? Or will she expect us all to wait on her hand and foot like her black slaves?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the faces in the sea of pink-skinned people who stood around pointing at the captives and jabbering in their language as each of the slaves was described. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if people stopped buying that sugar, the whole slave system would collapse. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

This seemed a very long time to Julius, who used the interval to dismiss the four slaves who were now needed to manhandle the large cage containing the full-grown tiger. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

At that moment they heard a bloodcurdling scream coming from one of the slaves in the rice field. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no end to their work, the river of slaves that needed to be driven from their hidey-holes and brought to the white man’s proper accounting. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Patrol bands marauded through the slave villages and ransacked the homes of freemen, stealing and committing assaults. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the simple existence of the Indian slave trade— thousands of native men and women working in bondage for Europeans—was a testament to Indians’ catastrophic loss of power and status. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Along-side the procession, slaves ran lightly through the grass with torches in their hands, and the flickering flames made the great monuments seem almost alive. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

So it was slaves that had stole four thousand dollars from the Tanners and run off with it! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Polly changed quickly into the stiff black uniform, inwardly praying that perhaps this would be the start of her move up to the main house and out of the kitchen with the slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any slave on a Brazilian sugar plantation knew that freedom was close at hand—if he or she could make it to the mountains and join the community of Palmares. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Melisandre felt the warmth in the hollow of her throat as her ruby stirred at the closeness of its slave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘Keeping male slaves in collars and orange jumpsuits. I’d rather keep a pack of dogs any day.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“It started as a one-room grade school for freed slaves, founded by Methodists from the North.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They’re tired of slave religion, by which the White Man convinces the Black that servitude is holy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am,” I mumbled, my hands doing the work of a slave, my mind racing free. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain Westfall, how far do slaves make it from the mines when they try to escape?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I write home about how I’ve made it to the big time, with my hot new railroad slave and all the fancy people I rub elbows with. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father had been born a slave in Virginia and had risen to the position of overseer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

This white woman was admitting a weakness to her—a slave? Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took Ruth by the hand and led her around the back side of Bridewell Prison, toward the Tea Water Pump, where there were other slaves and servants gathered. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you’re not trying to make her your little slave,” Donna says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s high time I stopped being a slave and became my own boss.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those relationships were the real evil of the sugar plantation: A master could do anything he wanted, and a slave could not resist. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Just as Jackson had warned, opposition to the slave trade was now being linked to ending slavery altogether. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Former slaves literally walked away from their plantations, causing panic and outrage among plantation owners. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And he bade Cuckoo go and ask the cousin what slave he would have since he had seen them all. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean, don’t go north? If we go south, we get deeper and deeper into slave territory. Our only chance for freedom must be in the North!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they inspected the factory and learned the best way to cut the power supply, Dasch noticed that the "foreign labor" at the plant was actually the Nazi version of "slave labor." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The proof was that when those slaves were asked if they wanted to be freed, they said no. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did a woman who crafted explosives for the Resistance end up a slave? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Amari noticed small shacks off to the right—slave quarters, she knew. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made bold to approach them and, in the guise of a slave, make inquiries as to who dwellt there. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When she was clean, the slaves helped her from the water and toweled her diy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher handed Homer the gazettes and the fugitive bulletins he’d collected from the deputy in the jail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They slaved fourteen hours a day, from six o’clock in the morning until eight or nine o’clock at night, with starvation-level rations, little sleep, beatings and other forms of torture, and daily executions. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even a slave, there, perhaps, would not drink only water. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He spoke of his childhood in Hoi- gufn, where his father, a descendant of slaves, had worked in the nickel mines. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The exhibit was a series of silhouettes of slaves and minstrels. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She knew how much Polly yearned to escape from the kitchen—her desire to move on and her distaste for the work of slaves were very apparent. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magister Illyrio murmured a command, and four burly slaves hurried forward, bearing between them a great cedar chest bound in bronze. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung had also his own secret trouble with Lotus since the day when he had protected her slave from the son of his uncle. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“You will forever be a slave if we go south,” Polly insisted. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Charles family owned a good deal of the cotton around here, way back then. And the slaves.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He called me to share his meals openly, and he seemed to listen when I talked to him about freeing the slaves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They did not tell them that their new great father owned slaves. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

People convicted of harboring slaves could be imprisoned or fined so heavily that they would lose everything they owned. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained to Jamison that the slave catcher had led them to the house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That’s when he became Moses the monster, Moses who made the other slaves quake, black terror of the rows. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

First he reversed the law that had freed the slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But in the past weeks, I had learned something of what it meant to have friends, and to be a real prentice, not a mere slave. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

To places that didn’t share a border with slave states, had never countenanced the abomination of slavery. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Would Weylin have done such a thing to one of his pregnant slave women, I wondered. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The restricted North was better for blacks than the slave South, but not much better. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you dress all your slaves as fine as King George?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The French masters had separated slaves who spoke the same African language, so in secret they had fashioned their own common tongue in order to communicate more effectively. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He does not own slaves nor believe in slavery, but he does not believe that the Negro, “in the present stage of his development,” can be considered the equal of the white man. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To resupply themselves with labor, the Spaniards began importing slaves from Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The slave auctioneer’s bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

As slave workers, they produced low-cost vegetables and fruit, farmed fish and pork, and made uniforms, cement, pottery, and glassware for the crumbling economy outside the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

These were five runaway slaves and a baby that had been caught! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Obviously,” Yishan said, “the emperor only uses the men from the mountain villages for his slaves. Let’s go see what the fuss is about.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

If the terrain was not too rocky or hilly, you might be part of a group of slaves who drove teams of oxen to draw plows across the fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

As for the slave trade, the sooner that despicable traffic was ended, the better for everybody. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Instead of importing English-speaking slaves from the West Indies, who were more likely to be familiar with European language and culture, many more slaves were shipped directly from Africa. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Plantation owners thus viewed Africans, who were relatively powerless, as the ideal slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But Isaura escapes to be with her true love, and together, they start leading a normal life in a town where no one knows she was ever a slave. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward he put their crews to death as well, saving only the slaves chained to the oars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Onto a ship. They chased him off the shore. And here’s this: He threats manumission for all loyal slaves.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Since tribes thus lack economic specialists, they also lack slaves, because there are no specialized menial jobs for a slave to perform. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first resolution was designed to appease the Deep South by confirming that the Constitution prohibited any federal legislation limiting or ending the slave trade until 1808. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Caribbean in those years was little more than a massive slave colony. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Fortunately for the slave, the creature's swollen state prevented the Firedrake from following him through the fissure in the rock. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pretty much. Riding the deep sea, tracking slave ships and boarding ’em, freein’ everybody. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They did not inspect the slaves or the village. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m a joke as far as Buz is concerned. He thinks people are strange if they even read books. Besides,” I added bitterly, “what would a writer be doing working out of a slave market?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And he said to himself again and again, “Am I not master in my own house and may I not take my own slave I bought with my silver?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The men Lord Tywin sent to seek after him had traced his course as far as Volantis, where half his crew had deserted him and he had bought slaves to replace them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It stars a noble African queen who tries to defend her tribe from advancing slave traders. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was written that some of the original black people should be brought as slaves to North America—to leam to better understand, at first hand, the white devil’s true nature, in modem times. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how handsome the house, once I enter I’m a servant girl—no more than a black slave. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

In France, one side argued that slaves must be freed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I saw on the shores all of the farms where slumbered slave and master alike. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

For some few weeks, I continued my studies as before, Dr. Trefusis guiding me without remark through stories of slaves who had achieved greatness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The work she had done in hotels was play compared to the terrible labors she had performed as a slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the talk had been of the gold and gems and slaves that would flood into Volantis once the dragon queen was dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even Alice’s marriage to Isaac was merely an informal agreement since Isaac was a slave, or had been a slave. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We brand our cattle, of course, but I’ve never bothered to check to see if any of our slaves carry brands. Is that a common practice, dearie?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. You know what they do when they catch slaves trying to escape. You know. Please. They’ll never let us leave the camp.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Indeed, that very same year Congress passed a law forbidding Americans from being involved in importing slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“A man can buy most anything on the Long Bridge. Gloves, slaves, monkeys.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the midst of a long silence, Will asked our mess whether; if we win, the slaves down in the Sugar Isles going be freed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“You know, it’s not only what will happen to the slaves that worries me...if I turn my back on him. It’s what might happen to me.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not going to forget her just because she's a slave. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The other three would divide the yellow enormity’s slaves amongst them, like as not. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like favors, they oppress and make me feel like a slave. I’d rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora read the accounts of slaves who had been born in chains and learned their letters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I believe she’s fainted again. Unfortunately, she had to witness the disciplining of some unruly slaves, and it proved a bit much for her. See to her, will you, old fellow?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Battered by European diseases and slave raiding, many fled to the Orinoco, becoming wandering foragers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

From all accounts, the slave master’s preoccupation with Cora and her escape only deepened over time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Said so many crops was blowed away that lots of sharecroppers starved and even the Tanners got sunk so low they had to sell off some slaves. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She sang to the ancestors and to the other slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black kids in the class wanted to identify with the values we were being taught, and the concept of being slaves was a clear deflection of those values. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The son of a former slave, Hayes was recognized as one of the finest singers in America. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily, several slaves would be in the house, cleaning or washing, but today, oddly, there were none. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But soon, especially with so much labor needed for the tobacco fields, Africans were brought to Virginia and sold as slaves for fife. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Polly groaned inwardly as once again she was given what she considered to be slave duties. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the original Randall slaves were in the ground now or sold, some variety of gone. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“All societies have higher and lower, masters and slaves.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Each of the nine slaves had died with his throat cut by his fellow’s blade. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Uppermost in whites’ minds was the fear that free blacks might start a general slave revolt. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of Chicago’s founding fathers, William B. Ogden, argued strenuously for expatriation-sending the freed slaves far, far away to countries in Central and South America. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She made two trips a year into slave territory, one in the fall and another in the spring. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, while Jefferson thought of slavery as an evil that he hoped would eventually disappear, he still believed in his own right to buy and sell slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Too many of them are of the rough sort that used to run in the old slave patrols, riding down escapees for a few coins. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In every single American slave state, the population of enslaved people kept rising even after the slave trade was abolished. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Selmy was training knights for her, teaching the sons of slaves to fight with lance and longsword in the Westerosi fashion... but what good would lances do against cowards who killed from the shadows? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m safe from everyone here. Where I used to live, in Oxford, there was all kinds of dangerous things. There was gyptians—they take kids and sell ’em to the Turks for slaves. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember in fifth grade you did that model of a slave ship for art class?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Pastor Weeks walked toward his own slave, keeping a hand on the satchel so it didn’t bump against his side. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany gave the silver over to the slaves for grooming and entered her tent. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Custom demanded that the queen begin with the Astapori envoy, a former slave who called himself Lord Ghael, though no one seemed to know what he was lord of. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Later he began to wish that he could put several other questions, such as “Do you like being a sexton?" or “Are you a slave?” or even “Are you happy?" The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were the gates that slaves had used in former days as they went about their masters’ business, where smallfolk and tradesmen came and went and made their deliveries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Blake, who was from Maryland, was the only surviving child of eight born to former slaves, and like Chaplin he had learnt his trade as a vaudeville performer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But Wang Lung never thought to say, “Well, and why do you not with the silver I have to spare, hire a servant or buy a slave?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They preferred palanquins, litters, and sedan chairs, borne upon the shoulders of their slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sugar made the Africans slaves, so sugar must be wiped off the island, now a vast sugar factory to the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“A servant I will be, not a slave. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The slaveholders lived in dread because the most faithful house slave might at any moment become another Nat, attacking the master, in the dead of night, with no warning. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Surely my ancestors had slaves, but it is possible that yours caught them and sold them to us.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says that finally crossing over from slavery to freedom is the most horrifyingest, most bravest thing a slave will ever have to do. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They are “morose,” “live in memory rather than hope,” are “slaves to profit,” and are “prone to pity, though not for the same reasons as young ’He is a cynical old soul, our hero. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was to be that lieutenant, and gather all that remained of the West under his sway; he would be their tyrant and they his slaves. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"Please . . ." "You do not ask a slave," Mirri replied sharply, "you tell her." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Mama said she’d rather be dead than be a slave,” she said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The manpower needs created by the six-year war generated several emancipation schemes whereby slaves would be freed and their owners compensated in return for enlistment for the duration of the conflict. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Granted, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had engaged in extensive debates about the slave trade and how to count slaves for the purposes of representation and taxation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When the slave completed the work, he asked the farmer to keep his end of the bargain. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Thomas Lanman, of St. Michael’s, killed two slaves, one of whom he killed with a hatchet, by knocking his brains out. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Among all the world’s large creatures, the only survivors of the human flood will be humans themselves, and the farmyard animals that serve as galley slaves in Noah’s Ark. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slave knelt before him, offering a wooden platter full of ripe figs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The infamous slave catcher Ridgeway paid a call on the plantation one week later. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s like saying that the slaves didn’t have jobs until they built the plantations.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Throughout childhood my younger sister said, “When I grow up, I want to be a slave,” and my parents laughed, encouraging her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shed the slave’s shuffle I’ve adopted and walk the way I used to, my head straight and my shoulders thrown back. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I am a prince of Dome, Your Grace. I will not run from slaves and sellswords.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I nodded, remembering what I’d read about the slaves’ marriage ceremonies. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the Meno Socrates persuaded an uneducated slave boy that he already knew that the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were other buildings lined up beside and behind the house opposite the slave cabins. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We call people like Kofi American-African, not African-American, which is what we call our brothers and sisters whose ancestors were slaves.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Gebu sold her at the common slave market to pay for funerary arrangements. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I can’t bear the thought of my people being slaves,” she admitted. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They might be plotting servile insurrection, those long hard words that meant death to the master, death to the slave, too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Armistead said disgustedly, “They think we’re fighting to keep the slaves. He says that’s what most of Europe thinks the war is all about. Now, what we supposed to do about that?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And mad a lot He say, Don’t say slaving, Mama. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same room on the same date in 1861, one hundred and four years earlier, President Abraham Lincoln had signed a bill freeing slaves impressed into the service of the Confederate army. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the English looked at the sugar they used every day Clarkson and the other abolitionists made them see the blood of the slaves who had created it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“The slave girl. The little boy. The dog.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the two girls exchanged glances, Polly could see bitterness flash in the slave girl’s eyes for a moment. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good white farmer promised freedom and a piece of bottom land to his slave if he would perform some very difficult chores. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At Cutler’s, despite Triphena’s friendship, she was no more than a slave. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the quarter, at night, some of the slaves gathered together in the cabin that belonged to Ben, her father, and talked. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also said that they had a pact with the devil, and that they kidnapped children and, taking them away to their mysterious camps, made them their slaves. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time Greta and I were slaves for the farmers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Miss Handler had taught the class about the Great Pyramids in Egypt and the marvels the slaves made with their hands and sweat. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Secretary of War Stanton apparently feels that, and I quote: ‘the slave has proved his manhood.’” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They had freed their slaves, yes... only to hire them back as servants at wages so meagre that most could scarce afford to eat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But he had absolute power over his slaves, male and female. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

No more children’s games for him, races and hide-and-seek, but the grim trials of slave men. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She appointed the eldest child at home to be “king” or “queen” to run the house in her absence and we took it from there, creating court jesters, slaves, musicians, poets, pets, and clowns. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My jeans and shirts were too well known to Rufus’s neighbors, and the dress Alice had made me looked too much like the dresses every other slave woman on the place wore. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If any slaves got caught with a ham or some bones, they would be in big trouble. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waited until the slave catcher was on the third step. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After being so quiet for so long—the slaves to escape the detection of hunters, and the hunters to escape the detection of their prey—all of them cried out and shrieked with their exertions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“The queen watched us tilt,” Penny was telling the other slaves in line, “but that was the only time we saw her.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“There is very much slave work to be done now that the fight is over.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been treated like a freak, dragged away from her home in New Orleans to this cold wilderness, and worked like a slave by a merciless evil goddess. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

An overseer like Thomas needed to be so terrifying that the slaves who worked for him would never risk either fighting against him or running away. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Fools rush on war to make a weaker country their slave. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked the Preacher if you were still a slave if you didn’t mind working for someone and didn’t have nowhere else to go. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Who would risk the Commandant's wrath to save a slave's life, even for a fat purse? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Their sisters of Selhorys were slaves, their bondage indicated by the tears tattooed beneath their right eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I held out the small statue that had been owned by my family ever since it was given to my great-great-great-grandmother Defile by a French man who had kept her as a slave. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So back to the kitchen for Rachel the slave! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship's cannon fired suddenly, sending the slave women on deck scurrying for cover. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maleeka’s tripping on that slave stuff again,” Char says, taking out her cigarette lighter and setting one of my pages on fire. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some had twenty soldiers, some two hundred or two thousand, all slaves they had trained and equipped themselves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My promise to a Scholar slave isn’t something Helene will understand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She answered that she had fled from pirates who had meant to sell her as a slave, and that she knew no one in this strange land to go to for help. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certain former slaves were carving stone and laying bricks, stealing work from guild journeymen and masters alike. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He said that he needed this information because he was going to free the slaves, on a large scale. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I was called over to the slave cabins—the quarter—to watch Weylin punish a field hand for the crime of answering back. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The woman was a slave who raised her hand to her mistress. The older man was accused of fomenting rebellion and spying for the dragon queen.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She realized then how deeply her life was entangled with those of the slaves she had once so despised. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It may be that we shall not long be slaves.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We approached his dock with trepidation, expecting an ambush, but found no resistance, and indeed an old slave left to lead us to the house. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then the colonists traded their sugar for English fabrics, clothes, and simple manufactured goods, or they took their rum directly to Africa to buy slaves—to sell to the sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Another person caught in this enterprise that bound slave and master alike. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The slave population in North America grew over time as parents lived long enough to have children. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

My mother walked off to look at a group of hungry slaves across the street. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When slave girls and daughters-in-law ran away, people would say they joined these witch amazons. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of Brown’s ships brought up a load r S of rum and slaves from the islands. They must have sold thirty-five, forty people in two hours’ time.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Veturius crests the cliff and ducks beneath the clothes fluttering on the line, heading down the slaves’ corridor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Worse yet, every Englishman who hammered This illustration showing the tools used to punish and torture slaves appeared in Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I could make you beautiful. I could make your face so lovely that every man would be your slave. I could do that! I have that power!” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She went South by train, counting on the fact that no one would question her because she was going in the wrong direction for a runaway slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost sixty years earlier, in 1729, as a young printer in Philadelphia, he had begun publishing Quaker tracts against slavery and the slave trade. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her slave, Paul Jennings, said he was really the one who saved the portrait, but slaves were not allowed to contradict white people. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Cook slaves pulled a heavy iron stew pot from the firepit, dumped the stew onto the ground, and returned the pot to the flames. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The overseer, startled by this sudden obstructing body, planted squarely in the doorway, turned away from the door, picked up a two-pound weight from the counter, and hurled it at the fleeing slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is for the time being a slave of the State. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They died as heroes, their wives as slaves. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Men with absolute power over their slaves acted like creatures we would otherwise meet only in nightmares. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

So he was silent of that, and mentioned only the slaves. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

About twenty or twenty-five of us boys, plus Dawn Madden, stood in a bunch to be picked like slaves in a slave market. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The speaker was one of the slaves she had claimed, the heavy, flat-nosed woman who had blessed her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Master William Hamilton, my master’s father-in-law, always gave his slaves enough to eat. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Marq Mandrake, whose pox- scarred face had a hole in one cheek where a slave’s mark had been burned away, wore a chain of golden skulls as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In Martin’s recollection, his father, Donald, had never expressed an opinion about the peculiar institution, although their family was rare in their circle in not owning slaves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Thousands could dwell there, workers, servants, slaves, and warriors with great store of arms; wolves were fed and stabled in deep dens beneath. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

You can expect to spend the rest of your life as a corporate slave, Johnny, I thought. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Rachel thought there was a hierarchy that should be followed: field workers, house slaves, mistress, and master. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My mother would buy her slave from a professional whose little girls stood neatly in a row and bowed together when a customer looked them over. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The male slaves had all been loaded before them, and she looked in disbelief at the sight before her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She don’t flash it ’round or nothing, but folks say anyone that can buy fifty acres without no loan must be rich as a slave owner! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Michael, the slave in question, had indeed possessed the ability to recite long passages. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Neither the women nor their husbands, brothers, or parents had any While masters built Great Houses that they hoped not to use, a slave’s whole life fit into one room. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Its plantations were already stocked with slaves, so opposition to the slave trade made economic sense, as did opposition to emancipation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She told them about Frederick Douglass, the most famous of the escaped slaves, of his eloquence, of his magnificent appearance. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the slave’s absence, North Carolina had changed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minister said they were to be laid in the lot set aside for slaves, but all who had hats doffed them as friend and foe passed by. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d make a slave of me that day, stripping cloak and tunic off me, throwing around me the dirty rags you see before you now. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The life of most slaves was not all that different from the life of a serving man at easterly Rock, it seemed to him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Why should an old slave use such a phrase as, "This and this or this has made me more human," as I did in my arena speech? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You would die before you would deliver a slave to his master, and I will die before I give up that child to its father.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Anthony’s National Woman Suffrage Association responded to the insult by passing a resolution that said, in part, “One-half of the citizens of this nation, after a century of boasted liberty, are still political slaves.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I reckon you’ll never be a slave to any business,” he says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And gently, Slant said to them, “The bodies, the bodies facing that way is free. The bodies facing this way is slaves.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She tried to fill in its details from stories, sifting through the accounts of slaves who had seen it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I thought of quiet Hatun, my older brother, slaving away on the distant roads. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

There was the cost of buying slaves and their upkeep on one hand and paying white workers meager but livable wages on the other. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I—” “It's all right.'' I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing. “I'm actually wondering the same thing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We park up front. There’s one bonus from being the derrick hand who’s a slave to these old rigs.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I thought, the slave who worked in the field, in a certain frame of mind, might even be happy to see the house burn down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So who is this delicious slice of slave girl?” asked the young man dressed in leather. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they were taken to the old slave barracks—low shacks where several men shared a small space, slept on wooden cots, and coped with bad drainage and damp floors. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

What made this or that utterance from the slave catcher worthy of inclusion, Cora could not discern. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I guess you could call them slaves. A lot of work has to be done by people with normal intelligence.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept it all in somehow, and congratulated myself that the Bible wasn’t the only place where slaves broke free. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Those gates looked so close ... and if the talk in the slave pens could be believed, Meereen remained a free city for the nonce. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ornate church building stood on land that long ago saw services held in a rude brush arbor and led by a former slave. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The men was all in blue, and Ah heard people say Sherman was cornin’ to meet de boats in Savannah, and all of us slaves was free. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I know you have to slave your life away for us,” she says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You have all the skills the Commandant would expect from a house slave. She’ll assume you’re illiterate. And we have the means to get you in.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I ended up being a abolitionist and Cooter was a slave. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The other said that to change anything in the sugar islands would invite slave revolts, help France’s rivals, and thus hurt the nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She wondered if they hovered over the coffle of slaves being driven down one of the old overland routes to Natchez or New Orleans, whispering taunts, crying revenge, bloody revenge, revolt, bloody revolt. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even give him some old fatback they was gonna give their slaves. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The Texans, they say, didn’t want to pay taxes and, second, Mexico had abolished slavery in 1829, and Texas, being part of Mexico, was required to free its slaves. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Wang Lung perceived by the quality of the curse that it was the Old Lord himself, because he cursed as one accustomed to servants and slaves. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Gandhi saw indenture for what it was: “almost as bad as slavery. Like the slave the indentured labourer was the property of his master.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Jefferson’s initial draft of the Declaration of Independence had included language that described the slave trade as the perverse plot of an evil English monarch designed to contaminate innocent colonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But a few days afterward, a goodly number of slaves would be gone from the plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the priests were holding mass baptisms on shore and marching their converts onto ships bound for sugar plantations in Brazil, slaves to the higher god of commodity agriculture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was considered as being bad enough to be a slave; but to be a poor man’s slave was deemed a disgrace indeed! Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

She said that voting in the election meant supporting a regime that sent young girls to be sex slaves in Dubai. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He sounded not at all Ghiscari, he knew; but half the Brazen Beasts were freed slaves, with all maimer of native tongues, so his accent went unremarked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“A high-ranking Ministry official like Mr. Crouch deserves unswerving obedience from his servants —” “His slave, you mean!” said Hermione, her voice rising passionately, “because he didn’t pay Winky, did he?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They targeted former slaves and any whites who supported the blacks’ rights to vote, acquire land, or gain an education. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Cora had seen starving slaves with more meat on their bones. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Why is it that when I need a slave, they all disappear?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!” he cried, seizing his forehead in his hands. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She had no intention of ever using that slave name again. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw a slave being whipped, blow after blow, until his back was nothing but blood and raw meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sternly she bade the slave bring her a battle-ax. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Royal and Red may have diminished the slave catcher when they last met, but it was Mabel who first laid him low. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Page after page of Negroes in bridles, strapped to walls, advertisements for shackles, reports of hangings of slaves for theft or insubordination. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then Spevy fell to the Kargs and was looted and laid waste, its people taken as slaves, so that even now it is an isle of ruins. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Both they and the Christians experimented with using their slaves to run the plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It floated someplace past the burning slave and the great house and the lines that defined the Randall domain. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His bedchamber was a small cell off the queen’s apartments, originally slave quarters; his furnishings consisted of a bed, a chamber pot, a wardrobe for his clothing, even a chair should he want to sit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She knew she could not survive that trip South with the chain gang, survive the slave driver’s whip. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were Hell because the slaves who labored without end got nothing for their work—except to live another day, to work more. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mostly he tells the new-free slaves that come here ’cause he don’t love nothing more than letting ’em know how amazing him and the rest of us folks in Buxton are. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“A runaway slave is what I see. Three runaway slaves. Whose collar?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You do know that you’re now a slave, don’t you? Has your sentence taught you nothing?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s like the slave hunts of the olden days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The slave catcher handed her a candle and told her to go down first. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Since his return to Mordor, Sauron had found it useful; for he had few servants but many slaves of fear, and still its chief purpose as of old was to prevent escape from Mordor. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z