bondage
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Yet Southern politicians had insisted there could be no Union-saving Compromise of 1850 without the law, which forced every citizen of the North to cooperate in returning black people to bondage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
In one fell swoop, Congress used its guarantee clause authority to establish multiracial democracy where human bondage had previously held sway, enfranchising huge numbers of formerly enslaved Black Americans and remaking Southern society.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
“This festival is intended to lift up our ancestors that came to this country in bondage, terrorized, brutalized,” Ludlow said outside City Hall on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
During the same oral argument, you had Neil Gorsuch insisting that the book "Pride Puppy" involved a sex worker who was into bondage.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
He would lead his people out of slavery as Moses had led the children of Israel out of bondage in Egypt.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
Vocabulary lists containing bondage
Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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The Tempest
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