- the owning or keeping of slaves as a practice or institution; slaveholding
- the condition of being a slave; bondage; servitude
- a condition of submission to or domination by some influence, habit, etc.
- hard work or toil like that done by slaves; drudgery
Slavery was a common practice in the 1800's on cotton plantations in the south.
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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noun
pl. slav·er·ies- The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude.
- a. The practice of owning slaves.b. A mode of production in which slaves constitute the principal work force.
- The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.
- A condition of hard work and subjection: wage slavery.
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See also captivity.
abolitionism the movement for the abolition of slavery, especially Negro slavery in the U.S. —abolitionist, n. helotism the condition or quality of being a helot; serfdom or slavery. Also helotage, helotry. indentureship 1. the state or period of being indentured or apprenticed; apprenticeship. 2. the state or period of being a servant bound to service for a specified time in return for passage to a colony. servilism a doctrine that advocates slavery. —servility, n.Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(usually uncountable, plural slaveries)
- An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
- A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
- (figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
Origin
From slave +"Ž -ery.
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Sentence Examples
- Lundy is said to have been the first to deliver anti-slavery lectures in the United States.
- Seward soon became recognized as the leader of the anti-slavery Whigs.
- 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.
- In the period from 1822 to the Civil War anti-slavery is the most striking feature of Boston's annals.
- 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."
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