forced march

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One word encapsulates this forced march of slaves westward, along with a disproportionate part of the Black role in America’s economic emergence: cotton.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

He had just arrived by bus from Pirot on the Serbia-Bulgaria border, he said, after a gruelling 25-day forced march across Bulgaria.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023

Rescued by U.S. troops in 1945 while on a forced march from Dachau, he spent two years in a displaced persons camp before emigrating to the United States in 1947.

From Slate • May 21, 2022

It’s the kind of sly reversal that Müller clearly delights in; this is one of those rare books about a pressing subject that reads less like a forced march than an inviting stroll.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2021

Teenagers and some younger children run to keep up with Sheriff Jim Clark, leading in a police car, during a two-and-a-half hour forced march out of Selma into the countryside.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman