bondage

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When enslaved Africans successfully escaped from bondage, they often set up maroon communities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

During the same oral argument, you had Neil Gorsuch insisting that the book "Pride Puppy" involved a sex worker who was into bondage.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

"I refuse to be trapped by the bondage that someone attempted to put on me by attacking us as they did last night," he told reporters.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2025

“Have they read the harrowing history of their ancestors’ bondage in Egypt to no purpose?” one writer in a Jewish periodical asked of pro-slavery Jews.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2025

Rumor swells daily that the Governor will proclaim the freedom of the Africans from bondage.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson