enslave
part of speech
verb (enslave, enslaves, enslaved, enslaving)
meaning for a pupil
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 →
sense 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.
In the corpora
- Sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked mainly by enslaved Africans, in brutal conditions where many died young.
- In 1621 the Dutch East India Company killed or enslaved most people of the Banda Islands to control nutmeg.
- Enslaved people resisted in many ways, from revolts on ships to running away and building free communities.
- Mediterranean galleys were often rowed by prisoners, captives and enslaved people, on both Christian and Muslim sides.
- European colonisers forced Indigenous people to mine silver in Peru and Bolivia, and enslaved Africans to dig gold in Brazil.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «enslave» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.