1. slavery
In the early days of American history, blacks lived in slavery.
Lincoln set out to abolish slavery in the United States.
Lincoln opposed slavery.
Slavery was legal there.
Slavery has been abolished in most parts of the world.
They felt that slavery was evil.
The first prohibition of slavery was in the mid-nineteenth century.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
For, in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery: but in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt.
We are faced with the alternatives of resistance or slavery.
The abolition of slavery in Europe eventually reached America.
No one shall be held in slavery.
In the fight to abolish slavery Lincoln knew that he occupied the moral high ground.
It is over a century since slavery was made illegal.
She was born just a generation past slavery. A time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky, when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons: because she was a woman, and because of the color of her skin.