enslavement

He stresses that the entire architecture of chattel enslavement was curated by Western slave-owning powers, who simply utilised local actors to help carry out their plans.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 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

His “We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite”—a potent suite with lyrics about black history, from enslavement through emancipation—arrived during the civil-rights movement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Critics have also voiced concern about the classification of African enslavement as "the gravest crime against humanity".

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

The systematic enslavement of Africans, and the rearing of their children under bondage, emerged with all deliberate speed—quickened by events such as Bacon’s Rebellion.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Plagues, earthquakes, wars, enslavements, revolts and volcanic eruptions have played outsize roles in its dramatic history.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2020

Knowing his own people to the bottom of their hearts, he realized how easily such enslavements could be carried out—particularly in troubled times.

From Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

And that is the only liberty,—a transfer of allegiance, a higher attachment, which sets free from the lower enslavements of life.

From Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Francis Greenwood Peabody

Marriages, divorces, inheritances, enslavements, disputes, etc., are all considered in this account, obtained by the Franciscan Juan de Plasencia from the natives.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

Interminable alterations of peace and war, enslavements and emancipations—Why?

From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski