slavery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsleɪvəɹi/
ipa: /ˈsleɪvɹi/
rhymes: -eɪvəɹi
rhymes: -eɪvɹi
Forms: form: slaveries
Etymology: From slave + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: abolition of slavery
text: modern slavery
text: slavery system
text: Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
text: The film portrays the brutality of slavery.
text: THAT the Constitution does not confer upon Congress power to interfere with slavery in the States, has been admitted by all parties and confirmed by all judicial decisions ever since the origin of the Federal Government. This doctrine was emphatically recognized by the House of Representatives in the days of Washington, during the first session of the first Congress,* and has never since been seriously called in question. Hence, it became necessary for the abolitionists, in order to furnish a pretext for their assaults on Southern slavery, to appeal to a law higher than the Constitution.
Slavery, according to them, was a grievous sin against God, and therefore no human Constitution could rightfully shield it from destruction. It was sinful to live in a political confederacy which tolerated slavery in any of the States composing it;[...]
ref: 1866, James Buchanan, Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion, New York: D. Appleton and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:
text: Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
ref: 2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
glosses: Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
examples: text: If you wil willingly remaine with me,
You ſhall haue honors, as your merits be:
Or els you ſhal be forc’d with ſlauerie.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act (please specify |act=I or II), scene ii:
text: Our victories on Voeld are only the beginning of what we can achieve, but we can't defeat the enemy without your help. If you're tired of living in fear, if you believe we were meant for something greater than slavery, if you're willing to stand up and fight: you'll find a new family in the Resistance.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Resistance Needs Volunteers:
glosses: A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
examples: text: Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery.
ref: 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 8, stanza 16:
glosses: A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
Derived terms: chattel slavery
debt slavery
neo-slavery
sell into slavery
sexual slavery
wage slavery
white slavery
Related terms: debt bondage
bonded labour