单词 | re-enslavement |
释义 | re-enslavementn. The action or process of enslaving or being enslaved again; the fact or condition of being enslaved again. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > enslavement > renewed re-enslaving1649 re-enslavement1823 1823 W. H. M. B. tr. P.-V. de Vastey Ess. Causes Revol. & Civil Wars Hayti vi. 201 It is plain that in 1814 the cabinet of Louis xviii. at the instigation of the Ex-colonists, meditated either the destruction or re-enslavement of the Haytians. 1858 T. R. R. Cobb Inq. Law Negro Slavery I. xii. p. clxxxiv They had enjoyed their liberty too long to submit quietly to a re-enslavement. 1883 Contemp. Rev. Nov. 686 The whites would undoubtedly disfranchise the blacks if they could..but none assuredly would ever again consent to their re~enslavement. 1903 W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk ii Present abandonment of the freedmen meant their practical re-enslavement. 1996 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 66/1 This would have left them subject to re-enslavement..at the whim of their neighbors. 2008 B. Krauthamer in G. Campbell et al. Women & Slavery II. iv. 101 Fugitive women gained powerful allies who protected them from capture and reenslavement by their former masters or colonial authorities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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