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/ˈsleɪvəɹi/ · noun
An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers..
abolition of slavery
modern slavery
slavery system
Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
The film portrays the brutality of slavery.
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;[...]
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.
If you wil willingly remaine with me, You ſhall haue honors, as your merits be: Or els you ſhal be forc’d with ſlauerie.
Use slavery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Slavery means An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers..
Common synonyms include bondage, thralldom, thraldom, thrall.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
abolition of slavery
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