slavery

[US]/ˈsleɪvəri/
[UK]/ˈsleɪvəri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. the system of owning people as property; the condition of being a slave.

Phrases & Collocations

chattel slavery

modern slavery

Example Sentences

slavery to tradition.

the allowance of slavery in the South.

The institution of slavery was once widespread.

Slavery was once socially sanctioned.

The Americans abolished slavery in 1863.

Slavery provided the foundation for many ancient types of society.

Chios is said to have introduced slavery into Greece.

Abraham Lincoln campaigned for the abolition of slavery,he succeeded.

Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.

The manorialism, Puritan culture, bloody slavery and the Civil War, which was looked upon as a catastrophe, were rich soil for development of South Gothic novel.

in the rural districts of the South this amounts to peonage and virtual slavery: all over the South it tends to crush labor and small business enterprises;

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