1
as in enslavement
the state of being an enslaved person
a child born into slavery
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2
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
In the next century, the confrontation over slavery was a fundamental issue behind a brutal Civil War that threatened to cleave it.
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Susan Page, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
There are thought to be around 250 pots by Drake still in existence, and over the past five years the market for his work has exploded, driven mainly by American museums competing for pieces in the hopes of telling a more complex story about the history of slavery in the US.
—Jori Finkel, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
But the real, urgent work ahead of them was to redeem the losses slavery had wrought.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
The vandalism occurred on June 19, 2020, also known as Juneteenth, the day that recognizes the end of slavery in the United States.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025
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Susan Page, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
There are thought to be around 250 pots by Drake still in existence, and over the past five years the market for his work has exploded, driven mainly by American museums competing for pieces in the hopes of telling a more complex story about the history of slavery in the US.
—Jori Finkel, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
But the real, urgent work ahead of them was to redeem the losses slavery had wrought.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
The vandalism occurred on June 19, 2020, also known as Juneteenth, the day that recognizes the end of slavery in the United States.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slavery
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To us, Nottoway’s transformation in the 1980s – from a brutal site of enslavement to a luxury resort and wedding venue – represented the Southern plantation tourist industry’s tendency to whitewash our past.—
Essence,
Essence,
29 Oct. 2025
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For the Spanish, in one sense, the justification for the enslavement of Africans was complex and varied.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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The program allows people convicted of crimes in the county to serve their sentences through manual labor instead of jail time, Jenkins said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Nov. 2025
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Further, many construction jobs were being done by undocumented workers, particularly in the Southwest, where deportations are impacting the ability for homebuilders to find enough labor to build homes.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
11 Nov. 2025
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Advertisement The Fifteenth Amendment had prohibited denying or abridging voting rights based on race, color, or conditions of previous servitude.—
Time,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Oct. 2025
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Even as federal funding resumes, local colleges, businesses and nonprofits are joining county agencies in maintaining relief efforts for as long as Sacramento-area residents need them.—
Cathie Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
12 Nov. 2025
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The first Black cemetery in Tarrant County, home to the remains of more than 500 veterans, was rededicated on Veterans Day after a months-long restoration effort.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Nov. 2025
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For enslaved people, the Revolution was a fierce campaign to stage the largest exodus out of bondage since biblical times.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Douglass’s former North Star co-editor, Martin Delany, who had been admitted to Harvard Medical School but was forced out after white students complained, responded to Dred Scott — and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 — by writing a novel whose hero escapes bondage and plots an overthrow of slavery.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Such is life in Marthaland, where homemaking tasks are plucked from the realm of everyday drudgery and elevated to a pure pursuit of excellence.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Despite tech companies’ promises about the capabilities of generative AI, the technology has frequently fallen short of its promoters’ lofty ambitions to streamline drudgery and free up humans to do more creative, fulfilling work.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
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Most of the people here have already paid the ransoms demanded and been released from captivity in the Sahara.—
Mick Krever,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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By late January, the last four escapees were recaptured after being lured back into captivity by peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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How Tielemans overcame early toils is often used as a source of encouragement by new additions who seem peripheral at first.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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But to borrow Manidis’s framework, the drive to create such a tool conflates useless toil with meaningful labor.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Slavery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slavery. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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