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Slavery logo #10101) Bondage 2) Serfdom 3) Serfhood 4) Servility 5) Servitude 6) Subjection 7) Thraldom 8) Thrall 9) Thralldom 10) Vassalage
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Slavery

Slavery logo #10101) Bondage 2) Servitude 3) Subjection 4) Subjugation 5) The practice of owning slaves 6) Thraldom 7) Thrall 8) Thralldom
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Slavery

Slavery logo #21000 Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property. Often slaves can be bought and sold. Slaves can be held from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation. Historically, slavery was institutionally recognized by most societies; in more recent times, sl...
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Slavery

Slavery logo #21002• (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

Slavery logo #20428a form of stratification in which people are owned by others as property
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slavery logo #21003(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

slavery logo #21003condition 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

Slavery logo #20212A form of social stratification in which some individuals are literally owned by others as their property.
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slavery

slavery logo #20688The 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

Slavery logo #20972Slav'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!» Ster...
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Slavery

Slavery logo #21212The state or condition of a slave. Slavery exists in most of the southern states. In Pennsylvania, by the act of March, 1780, for the gradual abolition of slavery, it has been almost entirely removed in Massachusetts it was held, soon after the Revolution, that slavery had been abolished by their Constitution; in Connecticut, slavery has been tot.....
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Slavery

Slavery logo #21217Slavery is the legal and economic status of being property.
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slavery

slavery logo #20400[n] - work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay 2. [n] - the practice of slaveholding
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slavery

slavery logo #21009slave, 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, s...
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slavery

slavery logo #20974 noun the practice of owning slaves
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slavery

slavery logo #20974 noun work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
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slavery

slavery logo #21221Click images to enlargeThe 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 capture. Slavery goes back to prehistoric times; it flourished in classical times, but declined in Europe...
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Slavery

Slavery logo #23816A system of stratification in which one person owns another, usually for economic gain.
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