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

“Jordan” was code for the Ohio River, and “Campground” was code for a community for Black people who were successful in escaping enslavement.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024

The history of the United States had been offered to me as consisting of the accomplishments of white people, mostly men, and the enslavement of black people.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers