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bondage

[bon-dij] / ˈbɒn dɪdʒ /


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“This festival is intended to lift up our ancestors that came to this country in bondage, terrorized, brutalized,” Ludlow said outside City Hall on Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 5, 2026

When enslaved Africans successfully escaped from bondage, they often set up maroon communities.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 26, 2026

“Have they read the harrowing history of their ancestors’ bondage in Egypt to no purpose?” one writer in a Jewish periodical asked of pro-slavery Jews.

From Slate Apr. 10, 2025

"Slavery-like conditions", as defined by Brazilian law, include debt bondage and work that violates human dignity.

From BBC Dec. 24, 2024

Second, the growing millions of African Americans, both freemen and those in bondage, opposed the idea.

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




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