forced march
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One word encapsulates this forced march of slaves westward, along with a disproportionate part of the Black role in America’s economic emergence: cotton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
He had just arrived by bus from Pirot on the Serbia-Bulgaria border, he said, after a gruelling 25-day forced march across Bulgaria.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2023
The forced march ordered by Congress removed 80,000 Native Americans from the eastern United States.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
The forced march of serial questioning imposes a kind of order, he said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2020
Teenagers and some younger children run to keep up with Sheriff Jim Clark, leading in a police car, during a two-and-a-half hour forced march out of Selma into the countryside.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
