"skilled" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In more recent years historians have acknowledged the fact that certainly during the period around 1790 skilled slaves were the only artisans in the colony.
- Rice production in particular suffered, since it depended on a labor force of skilled slaves performing carefully timed tasks.
- The explanation is perhaps economic; even a skilled slave was cheap, so it may have been cheaper to purchase a slave than to raise one.
- In contrast, tobacco planters desired skilled male slaves, while women were mainly responsible for breeding and raising children.
- And you killed a skilled slave, a concubine!
- Fu Yue was originally a slave, skilled at making walls for defense.
- Slaveholders leased skilled slaves for jobs available in Virginia industries.
- As was true for many antebellum buildings, the workmen were also skilled slaves.
- For hours at a time a skilled slave would work in cramped position, hardly able to swing his hammer.
- In the 1850s there were so many skilled slaves in Marshall, that white mechanics organized to protest that work was being taken away from "free" workers.
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