the condition of being enslaved, held, or owned as human chattel or property; bondage.
a practice or institution that treats or recognizes some human beings as the legal property of others.
a state of subjection like that of a slave: He longed to escape the slavery of drug addiction.
severe toil; drudgery.
Origin of slavery
First recorded in 1545–55; slav(e) + -ery
SYNONYMS FOR slavery
1 thralldom, enthrallment.
4 moil, labor.
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synonym study for slavery
1. Slavery,bondage,servitude refer to involuntary subjection to another or others. Slavery emphasizes the idea of complete ownership and control by an owner or master: to be sold into slavery.Bondage indicates a state of subjugation or captivity often involving burdensome and degrading labor: in bondage to a cruel master.Servitude is compulsory service, often such as is required by a legal penalty: penal servitude.
Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.
William Barr is the poster child for politicized law enforcement officials|Philip Bump|September 17, 2020|Washington Post
We went through birth pains through the Middle Passage, the abolition of slavery.
Debbie Allen’s Grandmother Love Doubled|Joi-Marie McKenzie|September 11, 2020|Essence.com
At the time of reading, I was already quite aware of the horrors of slavery, and disgusted by the prison industrial complex and school-to-prison pipeline.
Book recommendations from Fortune’s 40 under 40 in tech|Rachel King|September 4, 2020|Fortune
By upholding slavery as an institution elsewhere, one could argue — and indeed many are arguing in Sacramento right now — that state and local authorities in the mid-19th century were complicit in evil.
Sacramento Report: Reparations Bill Marches Forward|Sara Libby and Jesse Marx|July 31, 2020|Voice of San Diego
The California Constitution banned slavery in 1850 but did not prohibit slaveowners from other parts of the country from bringing their human property into the Golden State.
Sacramento Report: Reparations Bill Marches Forward|Sara Libby and Jesse Marx|July 31, 2020|Voice of San Diego
Rather, human trafficking, like slavery in the past, is a way of demoralizing the conquered.
ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Growing Role of Human Trafficking in 21st Century Terrorism|Louise I. Shelley|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Calhoun supported state nullification of federal laws and gave a speech to Congress titled “Slavery as a Positive Good.”
Election Day Is Scarier Than Halloween|P. J. O’Rourke|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And Daniel Webster, a great opponent of slavery, supported the vile Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act and all.
Election Day Is Scarier Than Halloween|P. J. O’Rourke|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A foreigner such as Bartholdi viewed the abolition of slavery as Liberty achieved in the United States.
128 Years Old and Still a Looker: Happy Birthday to Lady Liberty|Elizabeth Mitchell|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Southerners had history, ethnicity, culture, slavery, religion, and a quasi-aristocratic honor society to hold them together.
I like its noble aims, its scorn and hate of priestcraft and Slavery.
Julia Ward Howe|Laura E. Richards
Slavery, however mitigated and softened, can never be in harmony with the dignity of man.
Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China|Evariste Regis Huc
Habeas Corpus and the safeguards of Freedom which you deplore are ravished by Slavery.
Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 7 (of 20)|Charles Sumner
This once I have been deceived enough; I did hope, to my sorrow, that I had rescued my son from slavery.
The Captiva and The Mostellaria|Plautus
Slavery, therefore, can find no sanction in the law of Moses.
The Slavery Question|John Lawrence
British Dictionary definitions for slavery
slavery
/ (ˈsleɪvərɪ) /
noun
the state or condition of being a slave; a civil relationship whereby one person has absolute power over another and controls his life, liberty, and fortune
the subjection of a person to another person, esp in being forced into work
the condition of being subject to some influence or habit