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Another word for slavery

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slavery

n.

Bondage
bondage, servitude, thralldom, enthrallment, subjection, subjugation, serfdom, constraint, captivity, restraint, bond service, vassalage, involuntary servitude; see also captivity.
The use of slaves as an institution
owning slaves, slaveholding, slave-owning, practicing slavery, holding slaves, the peculiar institution*; see also sense 1.
Drudgery
toil, menial labor, grind; see work 2.

slavery implies absolute subjection to another person who owns and completely controls one; servitude refers to compulsory labor or service for another, often, specif., such labor imposed as punishment for crime; bondage originally referred to the condition of a serf bound to his master's land, but now implies any condition of subjugation or captivity

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Another word for slavery

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A state of subjugation to an owner or master:

bondage, enslavement, helotry, serfdom, servileness, servility, servitude, thrall, thralldom, villeinage, yoke. See over

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Lundy is said to have been the first to deliver anti-slavery lectures in the United States.
Seward soon became recognized as the leader of the anti-slavery Whigs.
Although older, his own name was present under Damian's, as if it had been erased during the long years of his slavery and newly added.
Slavery was forbidden by the sixth article of the ordinance; and the third article read: "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall for ever be encouraged."
In the period from 1822 to the Civil War anti-slavery is the most striking feature of Boston's annals.

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