enslave

He’s an amoral tycoon who would enslave an entire country to make a buck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

“Proper is a word forged by men who would seek to enslave us with it,” Lucretia counsels Ilithyia.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

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

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

By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to all the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

Then he pauses and sinks in his chair and answers himself, "It is a handcuff that enslaves poor workers."

From Salon ● May 12, 2022

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

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

They seem to be under some spiritual need to keep going; their conscience enslaves them.

From Change in the Village by George Sturt

Beyond the fort, roughly 100 plantations were worked by around 270 European planters and an enslaved population of about 5,000 people, up and down the Berbice River in present-day Guyana, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Indentured servants and enslaved people in his household could also have been used, although we may never know for certain.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 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

Four enslaved black men fled Edward Gorsuch’s Maryland farm in November 1849.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

West Ford, formerly enslaved by one of George Washington’s brothers, once reported that he took care of Billy in his old age.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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

“You’ll learn, young brotha. You’ll learn. The Europeans succeeded in denigrating and enslaving peoples of African descent, but there’s royal blood flowing through your veins, you hear me?”

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone