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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reenslave .
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Examples
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Sometime such luckless human flotsam gets taken and enslaved, then redeemed with ransom raised from christians, then reenslaved and ransomed again several times, becoming a cash cow for Islamic extremism.
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Landlords reenslaved black and pardo soldiers who had fought for independence.
9. Venezuela 2001
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But most of the free Negroes had fled their shantytown when Washington fell for fear of being reenslaved in the aftermath of Confederate victory.
The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960
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Had that control been from within, the Negro would have been reenslaved, to all intents and purposes.
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And within a month all these slaves who had been set free were seized and reenslaved.
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Had that control been from within, the Negro would have been reenslaved, to all intents and purposes.
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The second was illegal in form, but the aid was given to one who, having been set free by will, was being reenslaved, it was believed, by an unjust decision of a court.
An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm Jesse Macy 1880
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One was that of a man who had been free, but, by some fraud and informality of his papers, was reenslaved.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856
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