| 单词 | to sell south |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sell (a person) south P3. to sell (a person) south: = to sell (a person) down the river at river n.1 Phrases 5b. ΚΠ 1843 E. R. D. Is it Good, or is it Evil? 30 See its hearth forsaken, the mother sold south. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. x. 142 To appreciate the sufferings of the negroes sold south. 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind iii. 51 The air was always thick with threats of selling slaves south and of direful whippings. 1976 M. G. Eberhart Family Fortune (1977) vii. 77 ‘Suppose Mr Jeff sell me south?’.. ‘He can't sell you... You and all the slaves..were set free.’ 2007 B. Lowry Harriet Tubman (2008) i. vi. 106 There might have been yet another sister who was chained up and sold south; another mother with other children to cry for. < as lemmas |
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