It seemed God's ordination that labor be divided so that men like the Van Doorns could supervise while slaves and servants toiled.
When inspired with a promise of freedom, slaves will toil with incredible alacrity and faithfulness.
From the south a gust with a hint of hot jungles where slaves toiled to reclaim farmlands from deadly, water-shrouded marshes.
All through this commotion, the mud-covered slaves toiled away, scarcely pausing to raise their dull heads as the bullets streaked above them.
For days, elephants and slaves had toiled in the cruel sun, hauling the endless chains of buckets up the face of the cliff.
Oldorando's slaves toiled to erect a separate township just to the south of the towers, known ironically as the Pauk.
I sensed the Empire without seeing it, sensed a vast iron prison in which human slaves toiled.
Human slaves toiled in the fields, tending the crops.
Stephanie heard the whip crack out but did not look down into the pit where the slaves toiled.
Such plantations grew sugarcane as the main crop, and the slaves toiled under extremely harsh conditions.