1
as in enslavement
the state of being an enslaved person
a child born into slavery
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as in labor
very hard or unpleasant work
endured the slavery of working in the coal mines every day of his adult life
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Recent Examples of slavery
Some who had won their freedom, among them Frederick Douglass, wrote powerful autobiographies that were also devastating critiques of slavery.
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Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
Our great state’s western border, running along New Mexico, was officially set in the Compromise of 1850, which was actually a series of bills passed mainly to address issues related to slavery, according to the National Archives.
—Zacharia Washington, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
Her grandparents, George Craig and Eliza Jan Craig, were born into slavery.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
In the case of slavery, Reilly noted that modern educators are teaching only a sliver of the whole story.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 2 Jan. 2026
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By the early 20th century, after several centuries of rape, disease, enslavement, and land confiscation by colonizers, rubber barons, and loggers, their numbers had been reduced to 300.—
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National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Xiaolu Guo recasts Ishmael as a 17-year-old girl disguised as a cabin boy and Ahab as a Black freedman named Seneca, haunted by his father’s legacy of enslavement.—
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The company says the system aims to tackle persistent challenges in the hospitality industry, including labor shortages, inconsistent drink quality, and long service times.—
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What started as labor strikes and merchant protests over currency collapse and inflation has expanded into widespread street demonstrations and student protests.—
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Usually, their earnings help — but when such women are trapped in servitude, those gaps become all but impossible to fill.—
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While some people also practiced goddess worship or wiccan spiritualism, for many the witch was simply a cultural display of joy and a rejection of domestic servitude.—
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Her defensive effort led to a transition 3-pointer for Maddie Scherr that electrified the home crowd for TCU.—
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There is currently no information about the containment efforts for the fire and its cause has yet to be determined.—
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Where there was once bondage, there is now liberation.—
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Women often totter along a delicate line between beauty and torture, femininity and the bondage of expectation.—
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In other words, doing the same basic drudgery the rest of us rely on to get through this chaotic world.—
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Without institutional support, parents are left with a narrative of drudgery—one that equates children with the loss of time, money, and opportunity.—
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After Liat Beinin Atzili and her husband Aviv were abducted by Hamas on October 7, Liat’s father Yehuda embarks on an uncertain mission to secure his daughter’s release while resisting pressure to use her captivity to justify escalating violence in Gaza.—
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Sharabi told Fox News Digital about his life after captivity.—
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His account reveals an author searching for his true self and finding it, amid unceasing toil, in the act of observation.—
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The Premier League has brought toil.—
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“Slavery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slavery. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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