Word Of The Day

Subjugation:

  1. : to bring under control and governance as a subject : CONQUER
  2. : to make submissive : SUBDUE [Merriam-Webster]

Noted in “Before 1619, there was 1526: The mystery of the first enslaved Africans in what became the United States,” Gillian Brockell, WaPo/Retropolis:

Spanish explorers brought 100 slaves to a doomed settlement in South Carolina or Georgia. Within weeks, the subjugated revolted, then vanished.

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