as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
people freed from bondage
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Recent Examples of bondage
In the gap between law and emancipation, white landowners reaped profits, and Black families remained in bondage, unaware of the paper promises made in Washington.
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Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Black people in Texas learned of their liberation from physical bondage in June 1865, but the struggle for the full liberation of Black people had only just begun.
—Brandon Pryor, Denver Post, 16 June 2025
One feature of American life apparently not worth getting angry about—or that, perhaps, anger would not improve—was the institution of human bondage.
—Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Life drawing classes, singing bowl concerts, rope bondage groups: For decades, all have been welcome at their 2,500-square-foot meeting room upstairs, a sanctuary for Kansas City subcultures.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2025
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Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Black people in Texas learned of their liberation from physical bondage in June 1865, but the struggle for the full liberation of Black people had only just begun.
—Brandon Pryor, Denver Post, 16 June 2025
One feature of American life apparently not worth getting angry about—or that, perhaps, anger would not improve—was the institution of human bondage.
—Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Life drawing classes, singing bowl concerts, rope bondage groups: For decades, all have been welcome at their 2,500-square-foot meeting room upstairs, a sanctuary for Kansas City subcultures.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bondage
slavery
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Born into slavery in 1850, Goode was freed at the end of the Civil War in 1865 and moved to Chicago.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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David Bond offered a class called The Atlantic World, much of which involved the history of slavery and the slave trade.—
Brooke Allen,
New Yorker,
12 July 2025
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“Bondage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bondage. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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