slavery
IPA: sɫˈeɪvɝi
noun
- An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
- Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
- A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
- (figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
adjective
- Covered in slaver; slobbery.
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Examples of "slavery" in Sentences
- Slavery is illegal.
- Slavery is invidious and wrong.
- The slavery was permitted by the Bible.
- The main trade of the pirates was slavery.
- Chattel slavery was permitted by the Bible.
- It was a toilsome slavery under the Spaniards.
- But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
- The Church of England was implicated in slavery.
- Abolitionism is the movement to end human slavery.
- Freedom for them, servitude and slavery for the rest.
- That the abolition of slavery is within the sphere of legislation, I argue, _secondly_, from the fact, that _slavery as a legal system, is the creature of legislation_.
- _slavery_; yes! of American slavery in the bosom of a Catholic Republic, where that system of robbery, violence, and wrong, had been legally abolished for twelve years.
- Over the can of grog, the English tar forgets all his hardships and his slavery -- yes, _slavery_; for where is there a greater slavery among white men, than that of impressed
- The leading object of the second section was the readjustment of the representation of the States in Congress, rendered necessary by the abolition of chattel slavery [_not of political slavery_], effected by the thirteenth amendment.
- As a proof of this, I need not do more than state the general fact, that slavery has existed under the droppings of the sanctuary of the south for the last two hundred years, and there has not been any war between the _religion_ and the _slavery_ of the south.
- Again: the institution of slavery is only mentioned in the Constitution of the United States two or three times, and in neither of these cases does the word slavery or negro race occur; but covert language is used each time, and for a purpose full of significance.
- Texas remains an independent province, or is restored to its legitimate owners, and in either case slavery is abolished, she then becomes, from the very circumstance of her fertility and aptitude for white labour, not only the great _check to slavery_, but eventually the means of its
- What is sometimes not appreciated is the distinction that was drawn by governments between slavery and actual slave trading: for example, Britain prohibited the _trade_ as early as 1807, but did not abolish _slavery_ within the Empire until 1833; the United States prohibited the trade in 1808, but continued to practise slavery in her slave states until the Civil War.
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