How to Use enslaved in a Sentence

enslaved

1 of 2 adjective

• Used for generations in soul food, the black-eyed pea is thought to have come to the U.S. colonies with enslaved Africans.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 24 Dec. 2023
• Denise happened to have all these recordings of enslaved Africans in Virginia at that time.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2024
• After all, this is the very site where tens of thousands of enslaved people were once trafficked.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2024
• The Union victory in the Civil War led to the freedom of about four million enslaved people.
  — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 20 May 2024
• When the family was on the island, enslaved people handled the day-to-day cooking and cleaning.
  — Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
• An uprising by enslaved people on the island led her to return to the mainland to begin life anew in 1790.
  — Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• Brown’s goal was to arm and inspire an uprising among enslaved people.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• In the 19th century, plantations ran on the backs of horses, which were often trained by enslaved people.
  — Emily Lordi, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Over the next century, the presence of enslaved people there was remembered largely through word-of-mouth.
  — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• The history of the U.S. Virgin Islands is marked by its reliance on the labor of enslaved peoples in its sugarcane fields.
  — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• What’s more, the DNA of enslaved Black people and white slaveholders is closely intertwined.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Crop Over’s summer fete is tied to when enslaved people celebrated the end of sugarcane season or the crop was over.
  — Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2024
• And very little is done to really explore the lives of enslaved people, to think about slavery through their perspective.
  — Mackenzie McCarty, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2024
• The measure authorizes a commission to examine the history of slavery and its legacy, the scale of the slave trade in the United States and the treatment of enslaved people.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
• This should be the theme of our national anthem — not a song about bombs, terror and the deaths of enslaved people written by a pro-slavery prosecutor.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
• Records have pieced together that Tituba was an enslaved woman from the West Indians.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
• In other cases, the bones are probably from enslaved people.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• The mandate for the descendants of enslaved Africans to show common cause with each other has been sown into the Jamaican psyche, Pendergrass says.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Tours detail the island’s past, from its enslaved African population to Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile and death.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
• Charleston is a thriving centuries-old port, and its food is grounded in the influences of enslaved people from West Africa and beyond who largely built the city from the ground up, grew its crops, and worked and cooked here.
  — Stephanie Burt, Saveur, 8 May 2024
• In Pennsylvania, enslaved people had to be freed after six months of residency in the state.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
• Freeing the enslaved girls resonated deeply with Ms. Murray.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• The mansion was a former plantation, and visitors can learn about the role of the enslaved people there and view their quarters, as well as the carriage house, stable, and formal garden.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
• For some, the search for fun may also double as a sort of resistance movement to the white control of beaches that once belonged to the diaspora of enslaved Black people.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
• The museum also holds the remains of five enslaved Black people that were removed from a New York burial ground during a road construction project in the early 1900s, the letter said.
  — Justin Gamble, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• Few things had become more affordable than cane sugar which, owing to the labors of millions of enslaved Africans, could be found in the poorest and remotest of British households by mid-century.
  — Troy Bickham, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• The issues of reclaiming the power to support oneself, the narrative ties to a legacy of enslaved people and even the more recent heritage of Sol’s, are so powerful in this film.
  — Time, 5 Oct. 2023
• Pralines, like so much of the Southern-baking canon, were historically the handiwork of Black women, both enslaved and free.
  — Lisa Donovan, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• Dutch colonizers began making their way from the Netherlands to the United States, forcing enslaved individuals across the ocean with them.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2024
• Her 1851 speech drew upon her experiences of slavery and questioned why her humanity and that of other enslaved African Americans were not recognized as equal to that of white Americans.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 1 June 2024

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enslaved

2 of 2 noun

• Many of the enslaved at Brierfield were forced to help build the defenses at Vicksburg, where at least four of them died.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• As for the voices of the enslaved and the dispossessed, the island is unsettlingly silent.
  — Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
• Across the nation, multiple landmarks were built by the enslaved.
  — Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2023
• There’s language about the responsibilities of the enslaved and of masters in the Bible.
  — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• Some of the cooks who emerged from these conditions became some of the highest regarded and valued among the enslaved in the regions.
  — Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2023
• In his speech, Lynch claimed that the secret to controlling the enslaved was pitting them against one another.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• The west side of the tribute marks the wharf’s historical edge, where a metal marker lists the names of departure and arrival ports of the enslaved.
  — Devon M. Sayers, CNN, 19 June 2023
• These words seem to situate Truth among the enslaved of the South, a region to which she is never known to have traveled until after the Civil War.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 20 June 2023
• As many enslaved arrived on The Clotilda at a young age, there are substantial documents that record their lives.
  — Natalie Preddie, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
• By cloaking their gods in the guise of Catholic saints, the enslaved in Cuba could continue to worship as their forebearers in Benin and Congo had done.
  — Helena Alonso Paisley, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
• Although Drake’s couplets were often comedic, Gates’ writing sought to capture the anger that was and is undoubtedly present in the lives of the enslaved and in their descendants.
  — Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
• But white families may have other documents — such as wills, plantation records or family Bibles that list the names of the enslaved — or know where to find them.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 27 June 2023
• Accounting for them is complicated by the nature of slavery, with the enslaved often buried in unmarked graves.
  — Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• In one gallery, black walls are inscribed in silver with African names, along with ages – some as young as 4 – while an adjacent gallery similarly lists names imposed upon the enslaved.
  — Devon M. Sayers, CNN, 19 June 2023
• Walking along the Lowcountry, Turner interviewed descendants of the enslaved, made careful notes about their dialect and songs, and took photos.
  — Joshua Kagavi, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
• Often, the enslaved lived in complete isolation in wet climates very different from the rest of the United States, separated by rivers, swamps, and waterways.
  — Tanay Howard, Parents, 17 Feb. 2024
• Communal gardens, maintained by the enslaved, might supplement the meager supplies and what was available from hunting or fishing.
  — Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2023
• The pair recently traveled together to Grenada, where their ancestors of slave owners and the enslaved forged a terrible history.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• Black genealogy faces a special hurdle: Before 1870, census takers almost never recorded the names of the enslaved in the United States, instead listing ages and genders.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 27 June 2023
• Many of the enslaved at Brierfield were forced to help build the defenses at Vicksburg, where at least four of them died.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• As for the voices of the enslaved and the dispossessed, the island is unsettlingly silent.
  — Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
• Across the nation, multiple landmarks were built by the enslaved.
  — Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2023
• There’s language about the responsibilities of the enslaved and of masters in the Bible.
  — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• Some of the cooks who emerged from these conditions became some of the highest regarded and valued among the enslaved in the regions.
  — Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2023
• In his speech, Lynch claimed that the secret to controlling the enslaved was pitting them against one another.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• The west side of the tribute marks the wharf’s historical edge, where a metal marker lists the names of departure and arrival ports of the enslaved.
  — Devon M. Sayers, CNN, 19 June 2023
• These words seem to situate Truth among the enslaved of the South, a region to which she is never known to have traveled until after the Civil War.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 20 June 2023
• As many enslaved arrived on The Clotilda at a young age, there are substantial documents that record their lives.
  — Natalie Preddie, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024