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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.



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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of enslaved1

First recorded in 1660–70; enslave ( def ) + -ed 2( def )
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When one of her enslaved piglets colors a picture with crayons, she turns him into a pork chop.

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The heroine — daughter of a plantation owner — gets caught in the chaos and stumbles upon a group of formerly enslaved people from her father’s cotton fields.

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It was illegal for Black enslaved people to learn to read.

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Despite its contradictory history as a symbol of democracy built by enslaved people, it is a blameless externalization of America.

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Most people don't know it, but schools for Black people — free and enslaved — operated out in the open in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

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