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synonyms for slavery

  • bondage
  • captivity
  • enslavement
  • serfdom
  • servitude
  • subjugation
  • drudgery
  • feudalism
  • peonage
  • serfhood
  • subjection
  • thralldom
  • vassalage
  • bullwork
  • helotry
On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slavery, such as: bondage, captivity, enslavement, serfdom, servitude, and subjugation.

antonyms for slavery

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  • freedom
  • independence
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How to use slavery in a sentence

Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.
WILLIAM BARR IS THE POSTER CHILD FOR POLITICIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALSPHILIP BUMPSEPTEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POST
We went through birth pains through the Middle Passage, the abolition of slavery.
DEBBIE ALLEN’S GRANDMOTHER LOVE DOUBLEDJOI-MARIE MCKENZIESEPTEMBER 11, 2020ESSENCE.COM
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.
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FORTUNE’S 40 UNDER 40 IN TECHRACHEL KINGSEPTEMBER 4, 2020FORTUNE
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.
SACRAMENTO REPORT: REPARATIONS BILL MARCHES FORWARDSARA LIBBY AND JESSE MARXJULY 31, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
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.
SACRAMENTO REPORT: REPARATIONS BILL MARCHES FORWARDSARA LIBBY AND JESSE MARXJULY 31, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
The country had gotten comfortable with delicate work-arounds like that — the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, it was about states’ rights.
WHAT TRUMP COULD LEARN FROM NASCARCLARE MALONE (CLARE.MALONE@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)JULY 30, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
Much of the reparations debate has revolved around whether the United States and the United Kingdom should finally compensate some of their citizens for the economic and social costs of slavery that still linger today.
HOW FRANCE EXTORTED HAITI FOR ONE OF THE GREATEST HEISTS IN GEOPOLITICAL HISTORYMARLENE DAUT, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAJULY 4, 2020QUARTZ
But this alliance is rotten, and cannot endure; the Western men are no partizans of slavery.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUS
I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORD
“Lecompton” constitution of Kansas was a pro-slavery document which Buchanan favoured.
ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)
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WORDS RELATED TO SLAVERY

  • bondage
  • committal
  • confinement
  • constraint
  • custody
  • durance
  • duress
  • enslavement
  • enthrallment
  • entombment
  • impoundment
  • imprisonment
  • incarceration
  • internment
  • jail
  • limbo
  • restraint
  • serfdom
  • servitude
  • slavery
  • subjection
  • thralldom
  • vassalage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.