How to Use slave labor in a Sentence

slave labor

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  • Many of the rail routes had been constructed by slave labor.
    — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The other child — a boy — ended up at a slave labor camp and survived.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Noa is left for dead, and whatever friends and loved ones who have survived are led away, to be used as slave labor for …something.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2024
  • But while there’s been some progress, global crises have pushed millions more into slave labor.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 23 May 2023
  • In 2015, The Associated Press revealed the wide use of slave labor in the Thai shrimp industry.
    — Erik Vance, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • Milk chocolate used to be the default chocolate, the origin of the cacao — and the likelihood that it was harvested using child and slave labor — passed over in silence.
    — Ligaya Mishan Melody Melamed, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But Western business is choosing not to invest for a myriad of reasons including China’s use of slave labor and the absence of the rule of law.
    — James Rogan, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The Northland counties were leaders in hemp and tobacco production as a result of slave labor.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Sugar Land, which was discovered in the mid-1800s, had a thriving sugar plantation that was built using slave labor.
    — Kareema Bee, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Management is aloof, some legal questions are unresolved, and use of child and slave labor has also been questioned.
    — Walter Loeb, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • This win represents a measure of justice for those Uyghurs and other Turkic people who have been tortured and subjected to slave labor there.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Enslaved people continued to work at Whitehall and profits made there from slave labor were used to fund scholarships for Yale students.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • The carmaker touts its teams of monitors that travel to mining operations around the world, and has pledged to mount a camera at an African mine to prevent the use of underage or slave labor.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • In a time when slave labor dominated much of the Amazon, the company had paid workers well and treated them with relative dignity.
    — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • Those that survive are packed into concentration camps — a chilling foreshadowing of the coming Nazi era — and forced into slave labor.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Labor groups have been pushing the issue ever since the construction of Silvery Towers, a pair of downtown high-rises that were linked to human trafficking and slave labor in the late 2010s, and whose contractor is now in prison.
    — Gabriel Greschler, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Others place the blame on a trans-Atlantic economic system that simultaneously enriched Southern white planters and Northern merchants on the profits of the slave trade and slave labor.
    — Eli Merritt, TIME, 4 July 2024
  • Taylor amassed a large fortune from Cuba's sugar plantations, which used slave labor, according to Citi's research.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 28 July 2023
  • Among the first shareholders of the university were tobacco farmers and plantation owners who relied on slave labor.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Sugar cane cultivation arrived in 1742, as New Orleans became a trade depot, and sugar became a major export built on slave labor.
    — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2023
  • Set in the Pacific, 1942, a Japanese ship transports prisoners of war to occupied territories as slave labor.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Paul Trible himself owns an antebellum plantation in Kilmarnock, Virginia, called Gascony, which was operated by slave labor in the 18th and 19th centuries.
    — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
  • There was a time when cotton was king and Black slave labor built the stature and wealth of America, a brutal time in history the legacy of which stubbornly persists to this day in our economic, political, legal, and education systems.
    — Roy Swan, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2024
  • In China, which controls 80 percent of all solar panel manufacturing, the solar industry relies on Uyghur slave labor.
    — Dj Nordquist, Foreign Affairs, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The protesters, however, said that placing the exhibit in a space named for Faneuil, an immensely wealthy merchant who profited from slave labor in the Caribbean and also from slave trafficking, is an insult to Black Bostonians.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
  • Ties worsened in 2018, for instance, after South Korean court rulings ordered two Japanese companies to compensate a group of Korean plaintiffs who the companies had used for wartime slave labor.
    — Foster Klug, Kim Tong-Hyung, and Mari Yamaguchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2023
  • The North’s industrialization contrasted starkly with the South’s reliance on agriculture and slave labor, leading to sectional tensions.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 1 Jan. 2024
  • When, eventually, there were labor shortages during the war, Himmler opened an Allach production facility in a subcamp outside of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany and used the prisoners there as slave labor to keep production going.
    — Deborah Vankinstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Under Taylor’s prosecutorial leadership, the tribunal decided the cases of Nazi doctors who had conducted medical experiments on concentration camp inmates, as well as industrialists who had availed themselves of slave labor.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023

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