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Plagues, earthquakes, wars, enslavements, revolts and volcanic eruptions have played outsize roles in its dramatic history.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2020

Knowing his own people to the bottom of their hearts, he realized how easily such enslavements could be carried out—particularly in troubled times.

From Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)

No wonder they kept hunting fifteen years for the man responsible for the Loki enslavements.

From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam

Interminable alterations of peace and war, enslavements and emancipations—Why?

From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred

Many of those who listened were refugees from the old world, having fled its oppressions and enslavements.

From Jimmie Higgins by Sinclair, Upton