enslaved
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The Declaration proclaimed all men created equal, yet the new nation’s economy depended on enslaved labor in the South and indentured servitude in the North.
When the English looked to Africa, they now “wanted to know by what means persons were enslaved there and whether this was done in a manner that one could come to accept.”
This “sport” profits hugely from these athletes’ charisma — which is, in most cases, unmistakably Black — while keeping them enslaved with electronic wrist restraints.
From New York Times
Haiti became the world’s first and only country in which the descendants of enslaved people paid reparations to the descendants of their masters, for generations.
From New York Times
Initially modeled in plaster and later cast in bronze, “The Freedman” portrays a formerly enslaved man clad in a loincloth, his left arm in manacles, his right breaking free from the chains of bondage.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
