enslavement

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Critics have also voiced concern about the classification of African enslavement as "the gravest crime against humanity".

From BBC

However, by the 18th century the center of enslavement had shifted farther north, toward the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, and the numbers dropped in Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times

Accidents and misfortunes, especially being captured in wartime, could lead to enslavement.

From The Wall Street Journal

When West Africans, primarily Yoruba people, were enslaved and forced to Cuba during the transatlantic enslavement trade, they carried their cosmologies with them.

From Los Angeles Times

“But if your ancestors were enslaved in this country, then there’s a direct lineage-based tie to harms that were inflicted during enslavement and in the after lives thereafter.”

From Los Angeles Times