单词 | re-enslaving |
释义 | re-enslavingn. The action or process of enslaving again. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > enslavement > renewed re-enslaving1649 re-enslavement1823 1649 Unanimous Declar. Scroope's & Ireton's Regiments 5 Such Tyranicall Officers whose unsufferable proceedings tend manifestly to the obstruction of our Peace, the hinderances of the Relief of Ireland, the re-inslaving of the consuming Nation. 1657 M. Hawke Killing is Murder & No Murder 12 The Army presaging what dangerous..consequences might ensue to the reinslaving of the people. 1823 W. H. M. B. tr. P.-V. de Vastey Ess. Causes Revol. & Civil Wars Hayti vi. 236 The re-enslaving of the Haytians. 1860 J. S. C. Abbott South & North 330 The reenslaving of the free colored population, is only furnishing the plantation negroes with intelligent leaders. 1927 L. B. Paton in E. H. Sneath Evol. of Ethics vii. 215 Jeremiah, however, regarded the freeing of slaves as peculiarly acceptable to Yahweh, and the reënslaving of those who had been liberated as a most heinous offense. 1983 Vetus Testamentum 33 356 A possible instance of such scribal manipulation of the law may be that of the re-enslaving of the freed slaves in Jer. xxxiv. 2004 W. L. Richter Hist. Dict. Civil War & Reconstruction 54 Ashley found slavery abhorrent, especially the reenslaving of blacks with free papers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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