Slavery

n.	1.	The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! - Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this state [Virginia] could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future mischief. - Washington.
	2.	A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will. The vulgar slaveries rich men submit to. - C. Lever. There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish, - the slavery of caste. - G. W. Cable.
	3.	The holding of slaves.

Noun	1.	slavery - the state of being under the control of another person Synonyms: bondage, thraldom, thrall, thralldom
	2.	slavery - the practice of owning slaves Synonyms: slaveholding
	3.	slavery - work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay

SLAVERY. The state or condition of a slave.
     2. Slavery exists in most of the southern states. In Pennsylvania, by the act of March, 1780, for the gradual abolition of slavery, it has been almost entirely removed in Massachusetts it was held, soon after the Revolution, that slavery had been abolished by their constitution; 4 Mass. 128; in Connecticut, slavery has been totally extinguished by legislative provisions; Reeve's Dom. Bel. 340; the states north of Delaware, Maryland and the river Ohio, may be considered as free States, where slavery is not tolerated. Vide Stroud on Slavery; 2 Kent, Com. 201; Rutherf. Inst. 238.

abjectness, absolutism, attendance, baseness, bond service, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, dirty work, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, employ, employment, enslavement, enthrallment, fag, fatigue, feudalism, feudality, grind, handiwork, handwork, hard labor, helotism, helotry, indentureship, industry, labor, lick, lick of work, manual labor, meanness, menialness, ministration, ministry, moil, peonage, plugging, rat race, restraint, scut work, serfhood, servility, servitium, servitorship, servitude, slavishness, spadework, strain, stroke, stroke of work, subjection, subjugation, submissiveness, subservience, subserviency, sweat, task, tendance, thrall, tiresome work, toil, travail, treadmill, tyranny, vassalage, villenage, work, yoke

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