enslave

Everyday

1. To enslave people is to make them slaves: owned by others and forced to work without pay or freedom. tree →
2. To enslave someone is to control them so completely that they are not free, like a habit. tree →

In the lessons

History lessons (enslaved Africans, the slave trade, abolition), ethics (slavery is deeply wrong), Bible (the Israelites enslaved in Egypt), and everyday talk about habits.

Examples

• The Israelites were enslaved in Egypt, the Bible tells. tree →
• Millions of Africans were enslaved and taken across the Atlantic. tree →
• Harriet Tubman helped enslaved people escape to freedom. tree →
• It is wrong to enslave anyone. tree →
• Don't let video games enslave you. tree →
• Enslaved workers had no wages and no rights. tree →
• From that hour he found that instead of obtaining revenge on the Stag, he had enslaved himself to the service of man. tree →

Note

Historians often say «enslaved people» rather than «slaves» to show they were people first. Noun: enslavement; opposite: free, liberate, emancipate.