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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

"I refuse to be trapped by the bondage that someone attempted to put on me by attacking us as they did last night," he told reporters.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2025

“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

To seek the imperfection in the chain that keeps you in bondage.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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