enslavement
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He stresses that the entire architecture of chattel enslavement was curated by Western slave-owning powers, who simply utilised local actors to help carry out their plans.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
His “We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite”—a potent suite with lyrics about black history, from enslavement through emancipation—arrived during the civil-rights movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The country successfully pushed for a UN resolution in March, which recognised the enslavement of Africans as the "gravest crime against humanity".
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Now, the story leaves off, still focused on the woman who escaped the bonnet and cloak and not about the trappings of her enslavement.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
Individual black men and women protested their enslavement in every way imaginable—running away, stealing, killing themselves rather than living in bondage.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Plagues, earthquakes, wars, enslavements, revolts and volcanic eruptions have played outsize roles in its dramatic history.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2020
Do not admire languid limbs and pouting lips and the signs of haughtiness and vanity, your own enslavements.
From They Call Me Carpenter by Upton Sinclair
Knowing his own people to the bottom of their hearts, he realized how easily such enslavements could be carried out—particularly in troubled times.
From Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
Many of those who listened were refugees from the old world, having fled its oppressions and enslavements.
From Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair
Marriages, divorces, inheritances, enslavements, disputes, etc., are all considered in this account, obtained by the Franciscan Juan de Plasencia from the natives.
