bondage
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He enslaved more than 100 people at Mount Vernon, and historians continue to grapple with the contradiction between the nation’s founding ideals and the human bondage practiced by its first president, among his strong mythology.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 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
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
The Middle Passage refers to the forced voyage of people from Africa to the Americas, where they would be made to work in horrendous conditions and held in bondage for the rest of their lives.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing bondage
Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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