enslaved

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Most of the reparations paid by governments came in the form of compensation to slave owners in the 19th Century, rather than to those who had been enslaved.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Mezzo Ronnita Miller made the enslaved Tituba, the only character with actual conjuring experience, a properly alien presence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

And the U.S. began that relationship with the free Cuban people, many of whom had been enslaved by Spain, not by inviting them to the negotiation table in France but by dictating terms.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

And then if you only want to restrict it to federal immigration law, the Congress passed a law in 1808 banning the international slave trade and still ships are smuggling enslaved people in.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026

Under the terms of the treaty with England, enslaved people who had escaped to the British are returned to their owners; some who had been promised freedom by Andrew Jackson remain in slavery.

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