enslaved

[en-sleyvd]

adjective

1. made a slave; held in slavery or bondage.

   Enslaved people were seen not as people at all but as commodities to be bought, sold, and exploited.

Other Word Forms

• unenslaved adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of enslaved¹

First recorded in 1660–70; enslave ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Full emancipation for enslaved people in the British Empire, excluding some exceptions like the East India Company, was granted by the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

From BBC

Lucumí is an Afro-Caribbean religion with roots in Yoruba cosmology, formed and sustained by enslaved Africans in Cuba as an act of resistance and remembrance.

From Los Angeles Times

California passed a fugitive slave law — rare among free states — in 1852 that allowed slaveholders to use violence to capture enslaved people who had fled to the Golden State.

From Los Angeles Times

There was no mention anywhere of the Africans abducted and enslaved by these “Christian pilgrims.”

From Salon

Once upon a time, in places like pre-Civil War Virginia and North Carolina, the law forbade enslaved people from gathering for any reason, even to worship.

From Salon

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