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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.

Unleashing this plague upon humanity, Yakub initiated the decline and eventual enslavement of the Original Man.

He also recognizes that just as there cannot be absolute freedom, he sees there cannot also be absolute enslavement.

Many of the most important early Christians were women who joined the church to escape a lifetime of near enslavement in marriage.

Even then, it would be a far cry from enslavement, where everything produced is stolen by an outside power.

Any attempt to encroach on it, even by an iota, will ultimately lead to our enslavement by a federal tyranny.

Yet we read of no great destruction or enslavement or migration of the Chanes resulting from the Nahua victory.

But the Church helped the further enslavement of the workers.

I execrate the enslavement of the mind of our young children by the ecclesiastics.

Think of the irony and tragedy of this self-enslavement of the human mind!

We are considering the subject of the enslavement of the African race in this Republic.

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