"slave" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- About 95% to 99% of Brazilians descend from the country's indigenous peoples and Portuguese settlers, while 85% to 95% also have African slave ancestors.
- This is explained as an act of rebellion, remembering their slave ancestors, who had to work bare-headed in the sun.
- He also abandoned his name that was given to his slave ancestors and adopted Muhammad Ali.
- She was remote, a slave ancestor whose history had been lost.
- Big Sam, in turn, leads them to Horace, a lifelong slave of Fauntroy's, who alleges Fauntroy V is part black, sharing a common slave ancestor.
- So too is the fact that the slave ancestors of modern African-Americans were sold into slavery by fellow Africans, who were in some cases Muslims.
- Having heard that her slave ancestors made quilts as part of their work on the plantations, she began to paint on fabric and then to quilt her images.
- Generations after slavery has gone, the lowly status of these slave ancestors still matters.
- And thinking of his slave ancestors, he adds fatalistically: "What would this country be like, man, if they never had brought none of us over here?
- In addition to slave ancestors, a person may also find ancestral links to slave owners, traders and raiders.
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