Examples of 'slavery' in a sentence

Meaning of "slavery"

slavery (noun) - Slavery is the state of being owned and controlled by another person as a form of forced labor, often without payment and with restrictions on personal freedom
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  • An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
  • Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
  • A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
  • A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.

How to use "slavery" in a sentence

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Slavery is prohibited in international human rights law.
Protection from slavery and forced labour.
Slavery has been abolished for some time.
There is no definition of slavery in colonial domestic law.
Slavery was not new in the fourteenth century.
Freedom from slavery and forced labour.
Slavery in the colonies or the gallows here.
Contemporary forms of slavery related to and generated by.
Slavery was and is neither biblical nor moral.
No one may be held in slavery or in a similar condition.
And slavery for life to me and my companions.
There was a mention of slavery by the previous speaker.
Of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.
All this talk of slavery and domination.
Slavery and slaverylike practices during wartime.

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Recognition of slavery and the slave trade.
Slavery can not be imposed on adults or children.
Anything else is a form of slavery a reduction of my humanity.
Slavery will eventually die of natural causes.
You have made slavery legal again.
The slavery of serfdom should be radically abolished.
Northerners feared slavery might move west.
Slavery was not widespread among the people.
For the liberty or slavery of the country.
Fight slavery and abuse of human rights.
Practices and other contemporary forms of slavery.
Forms of slavery and other forms of exploitation.
I have always spoken out against slavery.
Evidence of slavery even predates written records.
Your father abandoned you to a life of slavery.
Slavery was maintained without the need to defend it.
New forced labour and slavery legislation.
Slavery was about the exploitation of raw materials.
Examples of contemporary criminal law definitions of slavery are.
Slavery is a horror that should be ended at once.
This brings us to the genius idea of slavery.
Slavery being at the very top of that list.
A long time for a people to remain in slavery.
Sold into slavery of the cruelest kind.
They became alert to the concept of slavery.
The days of slavery in the colonies are numbered.
In some cases their conditions amount to slavery.
Slavery is alive and well in the world.
Manifestations of domestic servitude and domestic slavery.
But slavery is legal in this part of space.
All we are asking for is the end of slavery.
Slavery was accepted through most ancient civilizations.
Unless you want to be sold into slavery.
There is only slavery for me in our relationship.
Assistance to women victims of contemporary forms of slavery.

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