bondage
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When enslaved Africans successfully escaped from bondage, they often set up maroon communities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
"I refuse to be trapped by the bondage that someone attempted to put on me by attacking us as they did last night," he told reporters.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2025
It is well known that the 14th Amendment revolutionized our Constitution, changing a document that sanctioned bondage into one that promised liberation and equal citizenship.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2024
The wrapping marks, cut into the clay like a memory made concrete, oscillate between signs of painful bondage and a warm embrace, a tension both social and artistic in 1970s Korean culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024
The systematic enslavement of Africans, and the rearing of their children under bondage, emerged with all deliberate speed—quickened by events such as Bacon’s Rebellion.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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