enslave
Example Sentences
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The Declaration proclaimed all men created equal, yet the new nation’s economy depended on enslaved labor in the South and indentured servitude in the North.
When the English looked to Africa, they now “wanted to know by what means persons were enslaved there and whether this was done in a manner that one could come to accept.”
“This was one way of shifting enslaved labor from agriculture to industry, a necessity for the confederacy during the Civil War,” says Lichtenstein.
In her introduction, she swoops over the poppy fields to free the enslaved oxen forced to build the Yellow Brick Road.
From Los Angeles Times
Many Americans, before the book’s publication, treated enslaved labor as a necessary and even a natural form of work.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
