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- adjective Since the end of a period of
slavery .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Moreover, the fact of newly freed workers in search of postslavery alternatives had important implications for land tenure: would freed slaves be able to establish farms of their own?
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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This preaching comes out of the postslavery years, where a pastor is the commentator on all things in society.
Barack's Beliefs 2008
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He writes, "we have yet to be shown evidence that slaves and postslavery blacks kept alive a politically relevant legend of Nat Turner or of any other Southern slave leader."
An Exchange on Harding, Vincent 1968
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He says that we "have yet to be shown evidence that slaves and postslavery blacks kept alive a politically relevant legend of Nat Turner."
An Exchange on Harding, Vincent 1968
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Known as Sidis, they're now a tribal Sufi group, and postslavery they've eked out an existence as itinerant musicians and dancers.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Known as Sidis, they're now a tribal Sufi group, and postslavery they've eked out an existence as itinerant musicians and dancers.
Chicago Reader 2010
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The experience of slaves, for all its tragic disruptions, pointed toward a stable postslavery family life, and recent scholarship demonstrates conclusively that the reconstruction and postreconstruction black experience carried forward the acceptance of the nuclear-family norm. [
A Special Supplement: American Slaves and Their History Genovese, Eugene D. 1970
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