slavery 的定义
- the condition of being enslaved, held, or owned as human chattel or property; bondage.
- a practice or institution that treats or recognizes some human beings as the legal property of others.
- a state of subjection like that of a slave: He longed to escape the slavery of drug addiction.
- severe toil; drudgery.
slavery 近义词
state of working under duress or without freedom
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- Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.
- We went through birth pains through the Middle Passage, the abolition of slavery.
- At the time of reading, I was already quite aware of the horrors of slavery, and disgusted by the prison industrial complex and school-to-prison pipeline.
- The California Constitution banned slavery in 1850 but did not prohibit slaveowners from other parts of the country from bringing their human property into the Golden State.
- By upholding slavery as an institution elsewhere, one could argue — and indeed many are arguing in Sacramento right now — that state and local authorities in the mid-19th century were complicit in evil.
- Rather, human trafficking, like slavery in the past, is a way of demoralizing the conquered.
- The consequences of slavery are still inherent in the lives of black people.
- I suggest you read my book Technological Slavery,” his letter concludes, “which you can probably get from amazon.com.
- Calhoun supported state nullification of federal laws and gave a speech to Congress titled “Slavery as a Positive Good.”
- And Daniel Webster, a great opponent of slavery, supported the vile Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act and all.
- But this alliance is rotten, and cannot endure; the Western men are no partizans of slavery.
- I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.
- “Lecompton” constitution of Kansas was a pro-slavery document which Buchanan favoured.
- The bond of marriage seemed an accursed thing, the mere slavery of women.
- The sugar of Cuba is the finest in the world; but in Cuba, slavery is unparalleled in its horrors.