bondage
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The history of slavery under Islam involved multiple forms of bondage that stretched across continents and generations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
"Slavery-like conditions", as defined by Brazilian law, include debt bondage and work that violates human dignity.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2024
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
CAL also found evidence of debt bondage, a form of forced labor that involves “recruitment fees,” often paid with a loan, with workers essentially indentured until their debts are settled.
From Salon • Apr. 2, 2024
We spake it during supper, as once, at the inception of our Regiment, all told the tales of escape; now we tell the tales of the return of soldiers to bondage.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing bondage
Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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The Tempest
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