In order to do that he was going to have to change his slave status when the proper time came.

Those of slave status have been returned to their masters with a request that they never be freed.

Slaves could buy their freedom, but their children still inherited slave status.

Thus I am a man of some substance, despite my slave status.

Many blacks left slave status early in Colombian history, becoming part of the free population.

The inability to marry may be due to differences in social rank (including slave status), or because the man is already married.

Although little is known about him or their time together, the union was complicated because of her slave status.

This new identity was based on African ancestry and slave status rather than membership in any one ethnic group.

Loans taken generations ago are passed down, as is the "slave status".

The slave status of Caryatids is similarly open to interpretation.