Meaning & use
enslaved
Forced into slavery; made to work for someone else as their legal property, without freedom or rights.
See it in a sentence
The historian described how millions of Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic.
The novel follows a family enslaved on a plantation before the Civil War.
A note on using this word
Historians now generally prefer enslaved person over slave because it emphasizes that slavery was done to someone rather than being their identity.
Words with a similar meaning
subjugated
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Words with an opposite meaning
freedliberated
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