enslavement
Example Sentences
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Accidents and misfortunes, especially being captured in wartime, could lead to enslavement.
When West Africans, primarily Yoruba people, were enslaved and forced to Cuba during the transatlantic enslavement trade, they carried their cosmologies with them.
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
Now, the story leaves off, still focused on the woman who escaped the bonnet and cloak and not about the trappings of her enslavement.
From Los Angeles Times
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
