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Enslavement   /ɛnslˈeɪvmənt/   Listen
Enslavement

noun
1.
The state of being a slave.  Synonym: captivity.
2.
The act of making slaves of your captives.





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"Enslavement" Quotes from Famous Books



... rights. For them the Peasants' War was the inevitable break with a long economic past, now intolerable and hopeless. There is some evidence to show that the number of serfs was increasing. This process, by menacing the freedom of the others, united all in the resolve to stop the gradual enslavement of their class, to reckon with ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith
... trustification of the institutions of the nation is not yet, but the people are to be shown a way by which the plundering process can be reversed and through which they can make their freedom complete and absolute by the complete and absolute enslavement ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson
... objects immeasurably more base and more deeply stained with guilt than any which were ever sought by the crowned kings and despots of the Old World. The confederate banditti of the South are fighting for what their Vice-president avows is a new idea—a government based upon the perpetual enslavement of the laboring class. In a conflict between liberty and slavery between a free democratic government and the foulest despotism which the enemies of mankind ever conspired together to establish, where should England stand? On the side of two hundred ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... penalties for whites and free Negroes alike for being in "unlawful assembly" with slaves. The word "unlawful" here seems to have had a special judicial meaning, signifying primarily for the purpose of instigating rebellion or insurrection. A law providing for voluntary enslavement of a free person of color, to any person whom he might choose, introduces a most interesting situation which probably indicates that there were more than a few free Negroes who preferred slavery to the condition of a creature living ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various
... reader what Bergson and Eucken are doing for scholars; he rescues the soul and its faculties from their enslavement to logic-chopping. He shows us the way back to ...
— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore


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