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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
    Slavery and the Economy: An OverviewForced labor was an essential component of the Southern economy from the time Europeans first settled the American South in significant numbers Seventeenth-century planters required field hands to cultivate and harvest cash crops, but had a tiny wage labor force from which to draw
  • Abolition of Slavery in the North | Encyclopedia. com
    ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE NORTHThe American Revolution is regarded as the precipitating factor in the abolition of northern slavery However, more than a century of arguments and measures to restrict both the trade in slaves and the institution of slavery preceded the emergence of Revolutionary-era antislavery sentiment, and abolition met
  • 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
  • Slavery and African American Religion | Encyclopedia. com
    Slavery and Methodism Some Baptists drew on their own egalitarian tradition to oppose slavery, but it was the Methodists who took the evangelical challenge to slavery to the furthest extreme in the revolutionary era At this time the Methodists were a reform movement within the Anglican Church
  • The Slavery Issue: Western Politics and the Compromise of 1850
    This delighted Free Soilers: since slavery had been illegal under Mexican law, immediate admission of California and New Mexico — a huge territory containing the present-day states of New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and parts of Colorado — would bar slavery from ever taking root there In addition, a large proportion of those who had
  • 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
  • The Debate over Slavery in the United States - Encyclopedia. com
    The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860 Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981 Fredrickson, George The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 New York: Harper Row, 1971 Jenkins, William S Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South
  • The Economic Impact of Slavery in the South - Encyclopedia. com
    The Economic Impact of Slavery in the SouthWith its mild climate and fertile soil, the South became an agrarian society, where tobacco, rice, sugar, cotton, wheat, and hemp undergirded the economy Because of a labor shortage, landowners bought African slaves to work their massive plantations, and even small-scale farmers often used slave labor





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