enslavement

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal

This Winthropism, for the next two centuries, would be used as justification for “Western conquest of Native Americans, enslavement of Africans, and colonization of everyone else.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The militants attracted hundreds of foreign fighters and became known for public beheadings and the enslavement of women.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Colonizers needed a way to justify enslavement, genocide and forced conversion. So they painted African and Indigenous religions as evil.”

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