Samuel Hopkins

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

American Clergyman

Aldis Hodge

A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so much shame and guilt... That is the big elephant in the room, but a part of why we're afraid to attack that subject matter is because of the way we've been taught about it.

American Actor

Anthony Horowitz

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

English Novelist

Marcel Duchamp

When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.

French Artist

Louise Brooks

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

American Actress

Susan B. Anthony

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

American Activist

Henryk Sienkiewicz

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

Polish Novelist

Alice Walker

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

American Author

Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

French Poet

Barbara Amiel

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

British Journalist

Used to describe actual slavery—forced labor without freedom or rights.

Historical Context

Conveys a powerful wrong or injustice when describing taking someone's freedom.

Strong Emotion

Implies physical control or restraint against someone's will.

Physical Control

Describes a situation where a person is not literally a slave but is controlled by something.

Figurative Use

Highlights a person's emotional or psychological state of dependency.

Emotional State

It suggests an unhealthy level of dependency that limits freedom or development.

Dependency Implications

 and put her in touch with free black sailors who shipped the wood to the North. From them, Minty learned about the secret communications that occurred along trade routes, information that would prove invaluable later in her life. In this mixed atmosphere of free and enslaved blacks working side by side,

The breathtaking courage...

 narrative of racial difference that we created to legitimated it's the ideology of white supremacy that we made up to make ourselves feel comfortable with enslaving people who are black and we never address that that legacy we have in the 13th amendment language that prohibits involuntary servitude in

The urgent need for...

 I never want to think about it again, I'm not going to look at it and I'm just going to get on with my life," ironically, those are the people who are most enslaved by what they have. Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows. And the people who do better

Depression, the secret...

 The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land. American Natives were enslaved, but many died from new diseases, while others effectively resisted.

The Atlantic slave...

 We live longer, suffer less, learn more, get smarter and enjoy more small pleasures and rich experiences. Fewer of us are killed, assaulted, enslaved, exploited or oppressed by the others. From a few oases, the territories with peace and prosperity are growing

Is the world getting...

 It's just a big cosmic vacuity. And we think there's a lot of something out there but that's because we're enslaved by our desires. If we let our desires melt away, we'll see the world for what it truly is, a vacuity, nothingness,

Why does the universe...

 A world full of only easy choices would enslave us to reasons. When you think about it, it's nuts to believe that the reasons given to you dictated that you had most reason to pursue

How to make hard choices...

 and enslaving the world to his will. So you set off on a quest to get them first, adventuring through fire, ice, and sand. Yet each time, you find that someone else got there first.

Can you solve Dongle's...

 not big benefits in material terms but the right to not be enslaved for life, the right to not have your loved ones torn from your arms and sold, and sometimes real goodies.

The lie that invented...

 what we're doing here is helping to tell a story on a human scale a story about a ship and the five hundred and twelve people who were enslaved aboard that

Enslave