| The ex-slave would often apologize to the reader for the relative crudity of his text as a work of literature. |
| In 1851, ex-slave Sojourner Truth addressed a convention of white suffragettes and white ministers debating which issue was more important, abolition or women's suffrage. |
| He was an ex-slave, the grandson of an African prince from Bornu, in what we would now call north-eastern Nigeria. |
| They were popularly derided for their congenital dim-wittedness, which here furnishes an appropriate intellectual counterpart to the social standing of the ex-slave Sarmentus. |
| Agnes was about sixty years old, an ex-slave, a meddler, and liar. |
