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enslavement
[ en-sleyv-muhnt ]
noun
- 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.
- the state or condition of being held in slavery:
During their enslavement, African Americans were prevented from learning to read or write.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of enslavement1
Example Sentences
His son Alfried and 11 other corporate directors faced charges in a later trial for participating in “the murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, and use for slave labor of civilians.”
"She has acted independently in maintaining the enslavement and deprivation of liberty of the victims and contributed to trafficking them further."
But by the early 20th century, following the displacement and enslavement wrought by successive waves of settlers — the Spanish, the Mexicans and then white Americans — the Tongva had lost their ancestral homeland in Southern California.
The keen and talented whites who can mimic this commodification of Blackness pull off a second abduction and enslavement in many ways.
Some residents live in fear, not of enslavement but of their own visions; others wind up traveling to the future and return with sad truths.
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