Definition of Slave

a person who is legally owned by another

Examples of Slave in a sentence

Slave labor was used in the southern colonies where large amounts of workers were needed to produce crops.  🔊

Each slave was responsible for a particular task, with most working in the fields and some serving indoors.  🔊

Born a slave, Harriett Tubman helped many other enslaved people escape to freedom in the north.  🔊

Forced to be a slave, Joseph rose through the ranks of servitude and eventually served directly under the Pharaoh.  🔊

A blight in our country’s history, President Thomas Jefferson was a famous slave owner who had a separate family with one of the women he owned.  🔊

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