Slavery Synonyms and Antonyms

slāvə-rē, slāvrē
The use of slaves as an institution
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. slaveholding
  2. owning slaves
  3. slave-owning
  4. practicing slavery
  5. holding slaves
  6. the peculiar institution
Drudgery
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. toil
  2. menial labor
  3. grind
Antonyms:
  1. mastery

Words Related to Slavery

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Slavery Sentence Examples

  • Then war can become obsolete, as foreign to us as slavery and public hangings.

  • 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.

  • Bassett, Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (Baltimore, 1894); The Regulators of North Carolina (Washington, 1894); and Slavery in the State of North Carolina (Baltimore, 1899), are all trustworthy.

  • Owing to the prohibition of slavery the vast majority of the early immigrants to Ohio came from the North, but, until the Mexican War forced the slavery question into the foreground, the Democrats usually controlled the state, because the principles of that party were more in harmony with frontier ideas of equality.

  • Slaves were often adopted and if they proved unfilial were reduced to slavery again.

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