enslavement (enslavment)

[ Abolition by sovereign will of a slave State now ceased, and as for enslavement by a free State's legislation, this had never been attempted. Schouler, Hist. U. S., III. 136. The effect of his (the negro's] enslavement , then, was not to civilize him in any sense, but merely to change him from a wild animal into a domesticated or tame one. Pop. Sci . Mo., XXVI. 233.