A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.
An outdated Abortionite sacrament, primarily practiced by the Racist sect in the United States. The choice of holding other human beings in a condition of involuntary servitude.
The most extreme, coercive, abusive, and inhumane form of legalized inequality; people are treated as property.
the state of one bound in servitude as the property of a slave holder or household.
When a person (called "master") has absolute power over another (called "slave") including life and liberty. The slave has no freedom of action except within limits set by the master. The slave is considered to be the property of the master and can be sold, given away or killed. All the fruits of the slave's labor belongs to the master (see, for example, the extract from The 1740 South Carolina Slave Code in the History of the Law). Slavery was once very prevalent in the world but is now illegal in most countries.
Slavery was the system of labor codified into law in the English colonies after 1650. It was lifetime inheritable servitude. The English successfully enslaved only black Africans.
Slavery is the social status of specific persons, known as slaves, who have been stripped of individual rights, and are the property of another person or household. Slaves are people who are held against their will since either their capture, their purchase, or their birth, and are deprived of their individual freedom for the purpose of exploitation of their labor and in some cases their sexual abuse.