enslaved

[ en-sleyvd ]

adjective

1. made a slave; held in slavery or bondage:

   Enslaved people were seen not as people at all but as commodities to be bought, sold, and exploited.

Other Words From

• un·en·slaved adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of enslaved¹

First recorded in 1660–70; enslave ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Written in 1985, "The Handmaid's Tale" presents a totalitarian society known as Gilead in which fertile women are enslaved and sexually assaulted in order to bear children for the ruling class.

From Salon

Roy focuses in particular on how these Black writers responded to the experience of the Middle Passage — the traumatic journey from Africa to America made by newly enslaved people — which he describes as “cheating social death,” and on how they used “the established part of an existing system to create a new one that serves a fundamentally different form or function.”

From Salon

Racist text messages are targeting Black Americans across the country, telling them they've been selected to be enslaved and forced to pick cotton on a plantation.

From Salon

From there Williams walked through all we achieved and had yet to achieve, and gamely included the acknowledgment that some of America's first heroes enslaved the ancestors of Black people who, against all the media hype, showed up in force.

From Salon

The proposed constitutional amendment is part of a reparations package for descendants of African Americans enslaved in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times

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