Slavery meaning

slā'və-rē, slāv'rē
Slavery is someone owning another person.

An example of slavery is the ownership of blacks by whites before the Civil War.

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The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude.
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A condition of hard work and subjection.

Wage slavery.

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The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.
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The condition of being a slave; bondage; servitude.
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A condition of submission to or domination by some influence, habit, etc.
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Hard work or toil like that done by slaves; drudgery.
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An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
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(figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
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The owning or keeping of slaves as a practice or institution; slaveholding.
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A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
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Origin of slavery

  • From slave +"Ž -ery.
    From Wiktionary

Slavery Sentence Examples

  • Although older, his own name was present under Damian's, as if it had been erased during the long years of his slavery and newly added.

  • Then war can become obsolete, as foreign to us as slavery and public hangings.

  • Slavery was forbidden by the sixth article of the ordinance; and the third article read: "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall for ever be encouraged."

  • Owing to the prohibition of slavery the vast majority of the early immigrants to Ohio came from the North, but, until the Mexican War forced the slavery question into the foreground, the Democrats usually controlled the state, because the principles of that party were more in harmony with frontier ideas of equality.

  • Bassett, Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (Baltimore, 1894); The Regulators of North Carolina (Washington, 1894); and Slavery in the State of North Carolina (Baltimore, 1899), are all trustworthy.

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