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as in slaves
a person who is considered the property of another person
I'm not your thrall, so you'll have to pick up after yourself
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as in slaveries
the state of being an enslaved person
a people who still bear the scars of having been in thrall for so many years
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slaves
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Rastus, Westinghouse’s Great Depression-era robot, was the most overtly racialized of these corporate robot slaves.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Apr. 2026 -
Some of the first slaves to arrive in Louisiana were sent from Angola, according to historians.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Thralls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thralls. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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