"inherit" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He felt it inappropriate to ask his daughters to inherit slaves (except for a few household slaves, if the girls wished it).
- The Chenoweth family subsequently made their way to Virginia, where Alice's father had inherited slaves.
- Jefferson inherited slaves as a child, and owned slaves the rest of his life.
- He inherited a plantation and slaves from his father but because he was opposed to slavery journeyed to Illinois to set them free.
- Mary Nuttall would inherit slaves from her uncle, William Savage.
- Martha and her husband Jefferson inherited all eleven members of the Hemings family as well as numerous other slaves.
- Even more so than Jefferson, who inherited slaves and land, Hamilton made his way in the world by his pen.
- His father had inherited slaves too, and he did not hold with slavery, so he freed them all.
- Not long after Garrettson inherited several slaves, he freed them.
- Coles, who had inherited slaves from his father, was considering setting them free, and sent off a letter seeking Jefferson's blessing and guidance.
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