slavery
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈsleɪvəri/
:
esclavitud
- The Civil War had ended in 1865, and slavery was now outlawed throughout the land.
- end slavery
- abolish slavery
- abolition of slavery
And this is where you have slavery for Israelites essentially outlawed.
- And this is where you have slavery for Israelites essentially outlawed.
- Let's go to after, you know, slavery is abolished.
- So even when they took them into slavery, they took the best.
- They didn't cause slavery, they sure as hell fought to stop it.
- Other countries had already abolished slavery, and indeed it took a civil war.
- I mean, slavery was justified by Christianity.
- Texas is trying to outlaw the word slavery in school.
Examples
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Other countries had already abolished slavery, and indeed it took a civil war.
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For Lincoln, only a principled rejection of slavery could end the crisis.
Academic text (2008) -
Step forward if you agree slavery affected my family.
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So even when they took them into slavery, they took the best.
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Both men were opposed to slavery.
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What would a memorial to slavery at Harvard look like?
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There were more reasons why: the abolition of slavery would not mean equality or harmony.
Academic text (2011) -
Maroons appear wherever slavery has existed, such as in the Caribbean and South America.
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Any man has a right to publish his opinions on the subject of slavery whenever he pleases.
Academic text (2008) -
The struggle against slavery has shaped many nations' histories.
Synonyms
31
8.9
To be forced to work for and obey another person like a slave
17
6.3
Being forced to work for someone as their slave
16
8.6
A state of being controlled and treated like a slave by another person
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7.9
Owning other people and making them work
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9.9
A polite phrase for slavery in the southern United States before the Civil War
Antonyms
Compounds
- Slang
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8.1
A situation when people must work for very low pay with no control or choice
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Morphology
Etymology
Slavery comes from the common word slave, which itself comes from the old Latin word sclavus, meaning 'Slav'. Because many Slavs were captured in the middle ages, the name came to mean the system of owning people and forcing them to work.