See Also: slavery(1)(dictionary)
slavery(2)(dictionary)
slavery(encyclopedia)
slavery(dictionary)
SLAVERY(law)
American Anti-Slavery Society(encyclopedia)

slavery(2) (iou)



slavery noun. M16.
[from SLAVE noun1 + -ERY.]
Severe toil, exhausting labour, drudgery. M16.
Daily News Such people..ought never to keep servants, but do their own slavery.
The condition or fact of being a slave, servitude; onerous subjugation; (now rare) an instance of this. L16.
L. Hellman An old, very black lady who had been born into slavery. W. T. Watts-Dunton The famous elegy..furnishes a striking proof of the poet's slavery to Augustanism.
b. Subjection to or domination by a specified influence. (Foll. by to.) L16.
The practice or institution of keeping slaves, the existence of slaves as a class. E18.
white slavery: see WHITE adjective.
M. Lowry A country of slavery, where human beings were sold like cattle. Interview China abolished slavery on March 10, 1910.