ENSLAVEMENT Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

enslavement

noun

Definition of enslavement

as in slavery

the state of being an enslaved person having known the misery of enslavement first hand, Frederick Douglass went on devote his life to the cause of making others free

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Recent Examples of enslavement He was born into enslavement in Edgefield District, South Carolina, bound by laws that forbade Black literacy. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026 Anyone arguing otherwise either believes in human enslavement, has no grasp of history, or suffers from both afflictions. — Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2026 How did the zombie go from being an emblem of enslavement and loss of autonomy in Haitian Vodou to the favorite flesh-eating grotesquerie of postapocalyptic tales? — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026 With polished prose and impeccable research, historian Philbrick unravels the Golden State’s ties to profit, enslavement and white supremacy. — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Earling gives a voice to the young girl Sacajewea, creating a shattering first-person account of her enslavement, her grief, and her endurance, re-centering her in a brutal history. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 28 Sep. 2026 Probably not his community of freedmen, anxious to escape the stigma of an enslavement that had ended less than ten years prior. — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 Some were written by people who experienced enslavement, others were dictated, and some were preserved through oral traditions. — Reginald David, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026 While Homer followed warriors sailing home from Troy, the playwright Euripides — writing some three centuries later — turned to the city’s ruins and its women, forced into exile and enslavement. — ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026

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slavery

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Instagram direct messages to a University of Miami football player that included rape imagery, violent slavery imagery, three uses of the N-word and two uses of a homophobic slur are under investigation by the Florida Bar.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
Lincoln lost that year, but the country benefited from their arguments over the legality and morality of slavery.

— Editorial Board, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2026

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