slavery

noun

The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner’s control, especially in involuntary servitude.

noun

The practice of owning slaves.

noun

A mode of production in which slaves constitute the principal work force.

noun

The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.

noun

A condition of hard work and subjection.

Slabbery; wet with slaver.

noun

A state of servitude; the condition of a slave; bondage; entire subjection to the will and commands of another; the obligation to labor for a master without the consent of the servant; the establishment of a right in law which makes one person absolute master of the body and the service of another.

noun

The keeping or holding of slaves; the practice of keeping human beings in a state of servitude or bondage.

noun

Servitude; the continuous and exhausting labor of a slave; drudgery.