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slavery    音标拼音: [sl'evɚi]
n. 奴隶的身分,奴隶状态,奴隶制度

奴隶的身分,奴隶状态,奴隶制度

slavery
n 1: the state of being under the control of another person
[synonym: {bondage}, {slavery}, {thrall}, {thralldom},
{thraldom}]
2: the practice of owning slaves [synonym: {slavery},
{slaveholding}]
3: work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay

Slavery \Slav"er*y\, n.; pl. {Slaveries}. [See 2d {Slave}.]
1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection
of one person to the will of another.
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Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said
I, still thou art a bitter draught! --Sterne.
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I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
state [Virginia] could see the policy of a gradual
abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future
mischief. --Washington.
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2. A condition of subjection or submission characterized by
lack of freedom of action or of will.
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The vulgar slaveries rich men submit to. --C. Lever.
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There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish,
-- the slavery of caste. --G. W. Cable.
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3. The holding of slaves.
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Syn: Bondage; servitude; inthrallment; enslavement;
captivity; bond service; vassalage.
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77 Moby Thesaurus words for "slavery":
abjectness, absolutism, attendance, baseness, bond service,
bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom,
dirty work, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination,
donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, employ, employment, enslavement,
enthrallment, fag, fatigue, feudalism, feudality, grind, handiwork,
handwork, hard labor, helotism, helotry, indentureship, industry,
labor, lick, lick of work, manual labor, meanness, menialness,
ministration, ministry, moil, peonage, plugging, rat race,
restraint, scut work, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitium,
servitorship, servitude, slavishness, spadework, strain, stroke,
stroke of work, subjection, subjugation, submissiveness,
subservience, subserviency, sweat, task, tendance, thrall,
thralldom, tiresome work, toil, travail, treadmill, tyranny,
vassalage, villenage, work, yoke

SLAVERY. The state or condition of a slave.
2. Slavery exists in most of the southern states. In Pennsylvania, by
the act of March, 1780, for the gradual abolition of slavery, it has been
almost entirely removed in Massachusetts it was held, soon after the
Revolution, that slavery had been abolished by their constitution; 4 Mass.
128; in Connecticut, slavery has been totally extinguished by legislative
provisions; Reeve's Dom. Bel. 340; the states north of Delaware, Maryland
and the river Ohio, may be considered as free States, where slavery is not
tolerated. Vide Stroud on Slavery; 2 Kent, Com. 201; Rutherf. Inst. 238.


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  • Slavery and Race - Encyclopedia. com
    Slavery caused racism, but economic motives, not racial impulses, caused slavery The rise of plantation slavery was tied to the development of capitalism; the decision to import large numbers of Africans and to hold them in hereditary bondage was based on the fact that enslaved Africans were cheaper than any other form of labor then available
  • Slavery - Encyclopedia. com
    Writers also commonly note that slavery existed in Africa, that Africans sold other Africans into slavery, and — though this is a relatively recent addition to the “ stock ” essay — that western Europeans ended slavery in a relatively short compass, from about the time of the American Revolution, when northern states began to adopt
  • Slavery and the Economy: An Overview | Encyclopedia. com
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  • Abolition of Slavery: British Empire - Encyclopedia. com
    British slavery abolition contributed to the dissolution of the sugar plantation economy in the British Caribbean and was a key step in the abolition of African slavery in the Americas Timeline 1809: Progressive British industrialist Robert Owen proposes an end to employment of children in his factories
  • Serfdom in Russia - Encyclopedia. com
    Although Muscovite slavery was also regulated by government officials, slaves belonged to a separate juridical category denoted by the Russian term kholop, which could refer to various forms of indentured servitude and debt bondage as well as to chattel slavery The majority of slaves were Russian males of diverse social origins, primarily
  • Slavery and the American South | Encyclopedia. com
    Instead, they took small steps to limit slavery, hoping that the practice would eventually die out on its own But rather than fading away, slavery in the American South increased dramatically Within a few years of Eli Whitney's 1793 invention of the cotton gin, the region's economy became completely dependent on the production of cotton
  • Slavery and the Constitution | Encyclopedia. com
    SLAVERY AND THE CONSTITUTIONLong before the constitutional convention of 1787 the question of slavery had become the prime concern of many Americans In the first and second Continental Congresses, the matter arose when several groups of slaves petitioned for their manumission
  • Abolition of Slavery: United States - Encyclopedia. com
    Abolition of Slavery United States 1863-1865 Synopsis By early 1861, just before the beginning of the American Civil War (sometimes also called the War Between the States and the War for Southern Independence), serious economic and ideological differences divided the citizens of the United States
  • Slavery in the Northern Colonies | Encyclopedia. com
    The census of 1790 reflects the decline, but not disappearance, of slavery in the North and its persistence and growth in the South The manumissions of the revolutionary years left many free blacks in the North and the Chesapeake region, but the majority of African Americans were still in slavery Slave and Free Blacks: Distribution, by States
  • Discipline and Punishment: An Overview | Encyclopedia. com
    As slavery intensified and states made the transition from a society with slaves into a slave society, various states tightened their restrictions on slaves fearing the rise of a slave rebellion For example, in South Carolina authorities sought to subdue slaves by branding, whipping, dismembering, castrating, or even killing them





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