enslavement
Americannoun
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enslavements
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the act of taking or holding someone as a slave.
Until his death, Bartolomé de las Casas worked to prevent the enslavement of the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.
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the state or condition of being held in slavery.
During their enslavement, African Americans were prevented from learning to read or write.
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Advocates for AI consciousness may believe that failing to extend moral consideration to AI systems would be akin to mass enslavement.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
But it was extremely hypocritical of the U.S. to condemn the Barbary states for enslaving a few hundred Americans given, you know, the extensive enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans on American soil.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The cultural chasm between Europeans and Africans presented obstacles to conversion, and a long legacy of church practice forbidding the enslavement of fellow Christians provided grounds to leave slaves in unbelief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The country successfully pushed for a UN resolution in March, which recognised the enslavement of Africans as the "gravest crime against humanity".
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
The contradiction between the ideals he had fought for and the enslavement of people like Billy Lee was now obvious.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Plagues, earthquakes, wars, enslavements, revolts and volcanic eruptions have played outsize roles in its dramatic history.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2020
But I know the souls of men and women; when I meet greed, and pride, and cruelty, the enslavements of the flesh, they cannot lie to me.
From They Call Me Carpenter by Upton Sinclair
No wonder they kept hunting fifteen years for the man responsible for the Loki enslavements.
From Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper
And that is the only liberty,—a transfer of allegiance, a higher attachment, which sets free from the lower enslavements of life.
From Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Francis Greenwood Peabody
Do not admire languid limbs and pouting lips and the signs of haughtiness and vanity, your own enslavements.
From They Call Me Carpenter by Upton Sinclair
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