Certainly the growing black middle class sees little shame in the old stigma of slave origins and instead uses it as an opportunity to clarify its own identity.

Assuming he was of slave origins, they knew his tribe had to be either urban Esquilina or urban Suburana.

He was of slave origin, very black, cheerful, indefatigable and good with animals.

As Mr. Patterson observes, such open references to their slave origins are best understood as declarations of the value of independence.

It bears testimony to the slave origins of the language which was not accredited by the White Afrikaners, especially during the Apartheid Era.

Most of these women were of slave origin.

Nzinga refused to recognize Hari a Ngola claiming that he was of slave origin and not eligible to reign.

Mamluk, literally meaning owned, was a soldier of slave origin who had converted to Islam.

In Somalia, the lighter-skinned majority rejected the Bantu, for their slave origins and dark skin and wide features.

Given Du Havel's slave origins and present exalted status, most people were excessively polite around him.