Even Thomas More, the most populist of the sixteenth-century humanists striving to overcome the immiserations of serfdom, did not question slavery but endorsed it, as did, of course, the U.S. government as late as 1861.
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Immiseration
//ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n//
Synonyms for "immiseration" (3 found)
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Unimaginable amounts of suffering have been caused by tyrants who callously presided over the immiseration of their peoples or launched destructive wars of conquest.
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