enslavement

"She has acted independently in maintaining the enslavement and deprivation of liberty of the victims and contributed to trafficking them further."

But by the early 20th century, following the displacement and enslavement wrought by successive waves of settlers — the Spanish, the Mexicans and then white Americans — the Tongva had lost their ancestral homeland in Southern California.

The keen and talented whites who can mimic this commodification of Blackness pull off a second abduction and enslavement in many ways.

Some residents live in fear, not of enslavement but of their own visions; others wind up traveling to the future and return with sad truths.

“Jordan” was code for the Ohio River, and “Campground” was code for a community for Black people who were successful in escaping enslavement.