Some slaves learned from planters' children, or from free laborers, while working alongside them.

Both free blacks and slaves learned at the Visitation convent.

Female slaves among such peoples quickly learn their place, a place in which they are kept with perfection.

From experience, the slave had learned that his master's mind was a devilish thing.

As he started to walk away, someone behind him shouted out the Japanese command to halt - a sound all slaves soon learned to react to.

I am sure you do not wish slaves to learn dangerous blows like these.

A man raised a slave suffers his own humiliation, and quickly learns not to judge others as he is judged.

Employed in "the big house," these slaves often learned to read, at a time when few slaves were literate.

A newly liberated slave learns about himself and the world during a voyage to Africa in the early 19th century.

You cannot expect the slaves to learn it in a week or less.