Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Grown on land cultivated by slaves; produced by slave labor.
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Examples
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Abolitionists calculated that if every family using five pounds of sugar and rum per week refused to consume slave-grown sugar, every 21 months they would save one African from enslavement and death.
Trouble by the Spoonful Fergus M. Bordewich 2010
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A more analytic view of Clay would see him as a statesman who, throughout his career, had tried to preserve the Union and bring about a peaceful end to slavery by nurturing American economic development, not least by replacing slave-grown staples like cotton with diversified industrialization.
How the West Was Won Daniel Walker Howe 2010
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Abolitionists calculated that if every family using five pounds of sugar and rum per week refused to consume slave-grown sugar, every 21 months they would save one African from enslavement and death.
Trouble by the Spoonful Fergus M. Bordewich 2010
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Abolitionists calculated that if every family using five pounds of sugar and rum per week refused to consume slave-grown sugar, every 21 months they would save one African from enslavement and death.
Trouble by the Spoonful Fergus M. Bordewich 2010
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There's certainly nothing contradictory about a crop being both slave-grown and "organic".
"There is no product on the planet that can match that lush, melted-chocolate mouth-feel of milk chocolate." Ann Althouse 2008
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But there were cheap slave-grown grain and fruit from Chalced to compete with, and the damned Red Ship wars to the north destroying trade there and the thrice-damned pirates to the south.
Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998
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"The Quaker lady who objects to slave-grown sugar."
Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann
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Lord Brougham and Lord Grey are not men of such illogical minds as to be incapable of understanding that it is the demand of the English manufacturers which stimulates the produce of slave-grown American cotton.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Even the fugitives escaping to Canada, from having been producers necessarily become consumers of slave-grown products; and, worse still, under the Reciprocity Treaty, they must also become growers of provisions for the planters who continue to hold their brothers, sisters, wives and children, in bondage.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Whenever the slave-grown staples bring a high price, as is now the case with cotton, every slaveholder is tempted to overwork his slaves.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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