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enslavement

[ en-sleyv-muhnt ]

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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.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of enslavement¹

enslave ( def ) + -ment ( def )

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

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His son Alfried and 11 other corporate directors faced charges in a later trial for participating in “the murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, and use for slave labor of civilians.”

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"She has acted independently in maintaining the enslavement and deprivation of liberty of the victims and contributed to trafficking them further."

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But by the early 20th century, following the displacement and enslavement wrought by successive waves of settlers — the Spanish, the Mexicans and then white Americans — the Tongva had lost their ancestral homeland in Southern California.

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The keen and talented whites who can mimic this commodification of Blackness pull off a second abduction and enslavement in many ways.

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