bondage

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He recounts marveling at the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, which released Eastern Europe from bondage and allowed his own country to emerge from the shadow of the Soviet Union.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 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

Chris Farrimond, NCA Director of Threat Leadership, warned migrants who enter the UK "under these clandestine means" are "under increased risk of being forced into exploitation and debt bondage" by groups of people smugglers.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2024

The wrapping marks, cut into the clay like a memory made concrete, oscillate between signs of painful bondage and a warm embrace, a tension both social and artistic in 1970s Korean culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024

Nonetheless, the simple existence of the Indian slave trade— thousands of native men and women working in bondage for Europeans—was a testament to Indians’ catastrophic loss of power and status.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann