bondage
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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
It is well known that the 14th Amendment revolutionized our Constitution, changing a document that sanctioned bondage into one that promised liberation and equal citizenship.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2024
In Brazil's penal code, the definition of slavery is not just forced labour, it's also debt bondage, degrading work conditions and long hours that risk workers' health.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2024
Even if the adults were free of the shackles that had held them fast, bondage had stolen too much time.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Vocabulary lists containing bondage
Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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