enslavement

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It also serves as a reminder of the need for a wider lens when thinking about enslavement and freedom throughout the Americas today.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2026

Accidents and misfortunes, especially being captured in wartime, could lead to enslavement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

At the Legacy Museum, visitors experience 400 years of American history that includes enslavement, racial terrorism, and mass incarceration.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

The Passover seder calls on Jews to remember our ancestors’ enslavement in Egypt, but the question of what to do with that memory has never been easy to answer.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2025

Although slavery is mostly associated with the American South, the entire country, as it grew, benefitted from the enslavement of people, primarily Africans and African Americans.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz