enslave

“Proper is a word forged by men who would seek to enslave us with it,” Lucretia counsels Ilithyia.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

Superfly is constructing a device to turn all animals into mutants and enslave the human race, and the heroes enter into a color explosion epic battle to stop him.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

They will be like, “OK, leave him alone. Don’t enslave him. He understands us.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

But last week Hinton quit Google so he could speak freely about his fears that A.I. systems would soon become smarter than us and gain the power to enslave or kill us.

From Slate ● May 9, 2023

By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to all the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Later, it did duty as a lower level of Nibelheim, where Alberich enslaves his fellow Nibelungs as the first step in his quest for world domination.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

Speaking to supporters at the end of his Socialist Party's three-day congress in Valencia, Mr Sanchez said that the practice "enslaves" women.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2021

And he argues, of course, this point with regard to the African-American neighbors he enslaves, but he also applies that to the North.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2020

“Man’s own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him, which enslaves him instead of being controlled by him,” as Marx put it.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016

Love and ambition prompt him to provide abundantly for his children; he enslaves himself to give them those social advantages which he missed in youth.

From Religious Education in the Family by Henry Frederick Cope

Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga is a new two-part series that explores the individuals, institutions and organisations who financed Britain's trade of enslaved Africans.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Slavery in New York expanded under British rule but declined during the first decades of the 19th century, with most enslaved people liberated before 1830.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

In 1851, an escaped enslaved man named William Parker stood at the door of a Lancaster County farmhouse and barred access to four fugitive enslaved men he was protecting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The insect’s first trips west came soon after, as the transatlantic slave trade brought ships packed with enslaved Africans to the New World.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Their spacious home served as an underground railroad station assisting enslaved men, women, and children escaping from southern states into Canada.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

The financing contributed to England's role in enslaving around three million African men, women and children, of whom an estimated half a million died during forced transportation, King's College London said.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

But it was extremely hypocritical of the U.S. to condemn the Barbary states for enslaving a few hundred Americans given, you know, the extensive enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans on American soil.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

France abolished enslaving humans more than 170 years ago, and in 2001 recognised slavery and the slave trade as "crimes against humanity".

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

One of them, an intricately carved throne, expresses the Kingdom of Dahomey’s expansionist practice of enslaving captured enemies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024

“You’ll learn, young brotha. You’ll learn. The Europeans succeeded in denigrating and enslaving peoples of African descent, but there’s royal blood flowing through your veins, you hear me?”

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone