enslavement
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“This one lived for itself, developing an economic mechanism based on human enslavement, which allowed it to become self-sustaining.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
But it was extremely hypocritical of the U.S. to condemn the Barbary states for enslaving a few hundred Americans given, you know, the extensive enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans on American soil.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Critics have also voiced concern about the classification of African enslavement as "the gravest crime against humanity".
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
Now Mexico became a land of possible refuge for people fleeing enslavement in Texas or nearby places such as Louisiana.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026
Among Barney’s crew was Charles Ball, a young man from Maryland who had escaped his enslavement and told navy recruiters he was free.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Plagues, earthquakes, wars, enslavements, revolts and volcanic eruptions have played outsize roles in its dramatic history.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2020
Interminable alterations of peace and war, enslavements and emancipations—Why?
From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski
But I know the souls of men and women; when I meet greed, and pride, and cruelty, the enslavements of the flesh, they cannot lie to me.
From They Call Me Carpenter by Upton Sinclair
No wonder they kept hunting fifteen years for the man responsible for the Loki enslavements.
From Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper
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
