10 sentences with 'blacks'
Example sentences and phrases with the word blacks and other words derived from it.
• « It was difficult for blacks to have access to education in Portuguese Angola, but Savimbi managed to get into an otherwise all-white secondary school and graduated at the top of his class in 1958. »
• « All in the Assembly were also white, despite the existence of a large population of free blacks and mixed-race people in the French colonies (especially in the Caribbean). »
• « However, in the case of blacks and mixed-race people in the French colonies, the Assembly at first showed little interest in extending any form of political rights. Several members of the Assembly argued that slavery should be abolished, but they were in the minority. »
• « Free blacks and mixed-race inhabitants of the colonies, once they heard of events in France, were quick to demand recognition of their own rights. Much more alarming to the members of the Assembly, the slaves of Saint-Domingue (who constituted approximately 90% of its population) also learned of the Revolution and its egalitarian promise. »
• « -Glen Echo Amusement Park is in Maryland," she finally said, "and the management doesn't allow blacks in. »
• « -It's serious! You don't allow blacks in the park! I can't go with you! It's serious enough for me! »
• « When, for example, the whites subjugated the blacks in South Africa, the latter still retained their power of resistance. »
• « Eight thousand whites and five thousand free blacks went to Britain. Over thirty thousand went to Canada, transforming that nation from predominantly French to predominantly British. Another sizable group of Loyalists went to the British West Indies, taking their slaves with them. »