enslavements

Enslavements is the plural of enslavement, which denotes the act or process of making someone a slave, or the state of being enslaved.

The word applies both to historical practices of chattel slavery and to modern forms of forced labor and human trafficking.

It also extends to figurative uses describing any condition of subjugation or loss of autonomy: the enslavements imposed by addiction.

Multiple enslavements may refer to separate instances or distinct systems of bondage across times and places.