enslavement

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Accidents and misfortunes, especially being captured in wartime, could lead to enslavement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

At the Legacy Museum, visitors experience 400 years of American history that includes enslavement, racial terrorism, and mass incarceration.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

The Passover seder calls on Jews to remember our ancestors’ enslavement in Egypt, but the question of what to do with that memory has never been easy to answer.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2025

“Jordan” was code for the Ohio River, and “Campground” was code for a community for Black people who were successful in escaping enslavement.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024

Among Barney’s crew was Charles Ball, a young man from Maryland who had escaped his enslavement and told navy recruiters he was free.

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