7 sentences with “enslavement”

In the British Atlantic world, some colonists perceived this loss of freedom as parallel to the enslavement of Africans.

Slaves resisted their enslavement in small ways every day, but this resistance did not usually translate into mass uprisings.

This tragedy was later remembered as the origin of the "lost tribes" of Israel - the Hebrews who lost their identity and religion due to Assyrian enslavement.

Slaves in Greece came from many sources. Although the practice was banned in Athens by Solon, most polis still allowed the enslavement of their own people who could not pay their debts.

There is little archaeological or textual Egyptian evidence to support the story of the complete enslavement of the Hebrews, apart from references in Egyptian sources to Canaanite labourers.

If so, this common background may have made it easier for Jemmy to communicate with the other slaves, allowing them to work together to resist their enslavement even as slaveholders worked to prevent slaves from forging such communities.

The term originally referred to the biblical story of the enslavement of the Jews by the Babylonian Empire in the 6th century BC, but the Babylonian Captivity of the late Middle Ages refers instead to the period during which the popes no longer lived in their traditional residence in Rome.