8 sentences with 'slavery'
Example sentences and phrases with the word slavery and other words derived from it.
• « The story of Moses leading the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt could also have been based on events associated with the collapse of the Bronze Age, the great century of upheaval in which nomadic raiders joined forces with oppressed peasants and slaves to overthrow the great Bronze Age empires. »
• « Despite the religious prohibition, it is clear that slavery was still present in the Persian Empire to some extent. »
• « In addition to the dramatic gender disparities in Greek society, there was the case of slavery. »
• « Greek artists, even those who escaped from slavery, soon began to move to Rome in droves because there was plenty of money to be made there if an artist could get a rich patron. »
• « In historical retrospect, however, slavery undermined both Roman productivity and the pace of innovation in Roman society. There was simply no need to look for new and better ways of doing things in the form of technological progress or social innovations because slave labour was always available. »
• « Also, the long-term effect of the growth of slavery in Rome was to undermine the social status of free Roman citizens, with farmers in particular struggling to survive while wealthy Romans bought up land and built huge slave plantations. »
• « Land ownership was by far the main determinant of wealth, and with the prevalence of slavery, economies of scale dictated that the more land a given family controlled, the more wealth it could generate. »
• « The subject of slavery is vast; it was a huge economic engine and an important part of life throughout the New World. »