enslave
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Superfly is constructing a device to turn all animals into mutants and enslave the human race, and the heroes enter into a color explosion epic battle to stop him.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Moreover, it can be argued that every institution devised by humans has been used to enslave other humans.
From Salon ● May 11, 2023
But last week Hinton quit Google so he could speak freely about his fears that A.I. systems would soon become smarter than us and gain the power to enslave or kill us.
From Slate ● May 9, 2023
To protect his new Christian subjects, he forbade his Turkish troops to enslave the Europeans.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
But my mother did not seem to care; she would always scoff at her opponents and call them fools in letting their husbands enslave them completely.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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Later, it did duty as a lower level of Nibelheim, where Alberich enslaves his fellow Nibelungs as the first step in his quest for world domination.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
Speaking to supporters at the end of his Socialist Party's three-day congress in Valencia, Mr Sanchez said that the practice "enslaves" women.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2021
And he argues, of course, this point with regard to the African-American neighbors he enslaves, but he also applies that to the North.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2020
From these images, Jemisin spun out a four-hundred-page story about an empire that enslaves its deities.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
What! the horrid man who enslaves us all?
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various
The Merikins are the descendants of formerly enslaved African Americans who fought alongside the British during the War of 1812.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026
The museum believes the woman in its portrait was a young enslaved woman from a Dutch colony in Guyana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga is a new two-part series that explores the individuals, institutions and organisations who financed Britain's trade of enslaved Africans.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
In 1851, an escaped enslaved man named William Parker stood at the door of a Lancaster County farmhouse and barred access to four fugitive enslaved men he was protecting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
More than twenty-five enslaved people labored in his home, fields, and mills in upstate New York.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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The financing contributed to England's role in enslaving around three million African men, women and children, of whom an estimated half a million died during forced transportation, King's College London said.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
But it was extremely hypocritical of the U.S. to condemn the Barbary states for enslaving a few hundred Americans given, you know, the extensive enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans on American soil.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
France abolished enslaving humans more than 170 years ago, and in 2001 recognised slavery and the slave trade as "crimes against humanity".
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
One of them, an intricately carved throne, expresses the Kingdom of Dahomey’s expansionist practice of enslaving captured enemies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024
“But with binding magic, you’re basically enslaving a spirit. Like the corpuscules? Someone with binding magic captured a spirit and then shadowshaped it into Ol’ Vernon’s corpse and sent it to do their bidding.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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