bondage
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Yet Southern politicians had insisted there could be no Union-saving Compromise of 1850 without the law, which forced every citizen of the North to cooperate in returning black people to bondage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
He enslaved more than 100 people at Mount Vernon, and historians continue to grapple with the contradiction between the nation’s founding ideals and the human bondage practiced by its first president, among his strong mythology.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
“This festival is intended to lift up our ancestors that came to this country in bondage, terrorized, brutalized,” Ludlow said outside City Hall on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
"Slavery-like conditions", as defined by Brazilian law, include debt bondage and work that violates human dignity.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2024
To seek the imperfection in the chain that keeps you in bondage.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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