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enslavement
[en-sleyv-muhnt]
noun
the act of taking or holding someone as a slave.
Until his death, Bartolomé de las Casas worked to prevent the enslavement of the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.
the state or condition of being held in slavery.
During their enslavement, African Americans were prevented from learning to read or write.
Word History and Origins
Origin of enslavement1
Example Sentences
“There was only depression, and a hopeless enslavement to an inhuman, uncaring foreign bureaucracy.... No American who has gone to the KGB has not come to regret it.”
Now, the story leaves off, still focused on the woman who escaped the bonnet and cloak and not about the trappings of her enslavement.
Historical analogies provide strategic inspiration: just as abolitionists once argued persuasively that human slavery was a moral abomination, modern activists might convincingly frame AI "enslavement" as ethically unacceptable and strategically dangerous for humanity’s future.
African captives turned American captives often remained as such when society transitioned from enslavement to Jim Crow.
At the Legacy Museum, visitors experience 400 years of American history that includes enslavement, racial terrorism, and mass incarceration.
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