enslavement

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Historical analogies provide strategic inspiration: just as abolitionists once argued persuasively that human slavery was a moral abomination, modern activists might convincingly frame AI "enslavement" as ethically unacceptable and strategically dangerous for humanity’s future.

From Salon • May 17, 2025

The Passover seder calls on Jews to remember our ancestors’ enslavement in Egypt, but the question of what to do with that memory has never been easy to answer.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2025

Some residents live in fear, not of enslavement but of their own visions; others wind up traveling to the future and return with sad truths.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

But the invention and widespread use of machines made the further direct enslavement of men economically impossible, and so slavery ended.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright