Assertion: bondage | /r/HasProperty | legal
Facets:
value: everywhere
type: LOCATION
value: in all thirteen colonies
type: LOCATION
value: in 1776
type: TEMPORAL
value: in most societies
type: LOCATION
value: in england
type: LOCATION
value: at some time in the past
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Slavery was legal in most societies at some time in the past but is now outlawed in all recognized countries.
text: One of the most significant milestones in the campaign to abolish slavery throughout the world occurred in England in 1772, with British Judge Lord Mansfield, whose opinion in Somersett's Case was widely taken to have held that slavery was illegal in England.
text: This bondage which came upon the race was first of all a legal bondage.
text: Slavery had been practiced in British America from early colonial days and was legal in all Thirteen Colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
text: There was a time when slavery was legal, and people considered it morally acceptable and economically essential.
text: Although slavery is illegal in every country in the modern world, it still exists, and even on the narrowest definition of slavery it's likely that there are far more slaves now than there were victims of the Atlantic slave trade.
text: Slavery is illegal everywhere and so requires corruption and crime to continue.