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bondage

noun as in slavery

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Within days, they were sold to local buyers and entered a whole new phase of life in bondage.

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The textile mills of Manchester and its surrounding region came to depend on the climate and soils—as well as cruel bondage—in America’s new territory.

His 1845 autobiography, a blistering tale of bondage in Maryland and a daring flight to freedom, remains one of history’s fiercest attacks on slavery.

The history of slavery under Islam involved multiple forms of bondage that stretched across continents and generations.

She says she was "trafficked, threatened, tortured, and held" in bondage in different locations throughout the world, including Los Angeles, from 2017 to 2023.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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