"justify" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This attitude was used to justify slavery and colonialism.
- That would be akin to justifying slavery on the grounds of economic efficiency.
- During the early decades of the 19th century, they used stories such as the Curse of Ham to justify slavery to themselves.
- A large part of the book is devoted to describing the theological contortions used to justify slavery.
- "He justified slavery in the Caribbean as being a way of bringing people into the Christian faith."
- Most Americans agree it was wrong and unconstitutional to use religion to justify slavery, segregation, and denying women the right to vote.
- This would be the equivalent of justifying slavery on the ground it gave work to idle black Africans.
- Similar arguments have been used by white men to justify slavery and genocide of native peoples.
- In the early years of this country, ministers cited passages in the Bible to justify slavery.
- The effort spent in justifying slavery, the foundation of rural economy, sapped people.
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