enslave
verb (used with object)
to make a slave of; hold (someone) in slavery or bondage.
had enslaved
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past perfectof enslave.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The university released a landmark report in April that found Harvard leaders, faculty and staff had enslaved more than 70 individuals during the 17th and 18th centuries when slavery was legal in Massachusetts.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2022
So from the beginning, of course you had enslaved people resisting the slave trade at the ports of Africa and throughout the Middle Passage.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2019
Even before then, merchants in the Massachusetts Bay Colony had enslaved Native Americans, and by 1638 were bartering them for Africans in the West Indies.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2019
Bouie: This pretty smart, you know, attempt to circumvent their slave’s escape betrays the extent to which slave owners did in fact understand that the people they had enslaved were people.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2015
But handsome Lord George was only one of many wooers whom her charms had enslaved.
From Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall
