Look up: Slavery

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   Slavery
   Slavery is the legal and economic status of being property. Slavery probably originated in early agricultural societies. The slaves being recruited from prisoners of war. In Greece and Rome slaves formed the economic basis of society. From the 2nd century BC conquest flooded Rome with slaves, who in the 1st cent, AD outnumbered free men in Italy, and several slave revolts occurred. The economic crisis of the 2nd century AD onwards led to alleviation of the slaves' lot, and serfdom replaced slave...
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   Slavery
   A form of social stratification in which some individuals are literally owned by others as their property.
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   slavery
   [n] - work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay 2. [n] - the practice of slaveholding
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   Slavery
   a form of stratification in which people are owned by others as property
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   slavery
   The enforced servitude of one person (a slave) to another or one group to another. A slave has no personal rights and is considered the property of another person through birth, purchase, or...
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   Slavery
   Slav'er·y noun ; plural Slaveries . [ See 2d Slave .] 1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. « Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery , said I, still thou art a bitter draught!» Sterne. « I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this state [ Virginia] could see the p ...
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   slavery
   noun work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
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   slavery
   noun the practice of owning slaves
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   Slavery
   `Slavery` is a social-economic system under which certain persons ` known as `slaves` ` are deprived of personal freedom and compelled to perform labour or services. The term includes the status or condition of those persons who are treated as the property of another person, household, company, corporation or government. This is referred to as `chattel slavery`. Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birt...
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    Slavery
    • (n.) The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. • (n.) A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will. • (n.) The holding of slaves.
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    slavery
    (from the article `social behaviour in animals`) Slave making is a kind of social relation that verges on parasitism. Certain kinds of ants raid colonies of other kinds of ants, carry off their ...
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    slavery
    condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the ... [172 related articles]
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    slavery
    slave, slavery, slaver, slavish, slavishly, slavishness 1. Slave, a person who is forced to work for another person for no payment and is regarded as the property of the person he or she works for. 2. Slave, a person who is completely dominated by someone or something. 3. Slave, someone who meekly accepts being ruled by someone else. 4. Slave, someone who works or has to work very hard, often in bad ...
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    slavery
    slavery, institution based on a relationship of dominance and submission, whereby one person owns another and can exact from that person labor or other services. Slavery has been found among many groups of low material culture, as in the Malay Peninsula and among some Native Americans; it also has o...
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