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enslaved
[ en-sleyvd ]
adjective
- 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 51Թ Forms
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of enslaved1
Example Sentences
When one of her enslaved piglets colors a picture with crayons, she turns him into a pork chop.
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.
It was illegal for Black enslaved people to learn to read.
Despite its contradictory history as a symbol of democracy built by enslaved people, it is a blameless externalization of America.
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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