slavery

«slavery» in Mova's school dictionary: the cruel system in which people are owned by other… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (slavery — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Slavery is the cruel system in which people are owned by other people, forced to work for no pay and have no freedom. tree →

2) Slavery is also the state of being a slave. tree →

3) Slavery can describe very hard work or control that feels like being owned, as in "modern slavery". tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons pupils learn about slavery in the ancient world, the transatlantic slave trade that took African people to the Americas, and the abolitionists such as William Wilberforce, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman who fought to end it. In the Bible, the Israelites escape slavery in Egypt in the Exodus, remembered at Passover. In ethics, slavery is a clear example of a great wrong. In news, "modern slavery" means people forced to work today. Phrases: "the abolition of slavery", "escape from slavery", "modern slavery", "freed from slavery".

examples

• Slavery is against the law in every country today. tree →
• Harriet Tubman led many people out of slavery. tree →
• (Bible) Moses led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. tree →
• William Wilberforce campaigned to end slavery in the British Empire. tree →
• At Passover, Jewish families remember the escape from slavery. tree →
• Modern slavery still happens, and police work to stop it. tree →
• Frederick Douglass wrote about his life in slavery. tree →
• It was collected at last, and the knight released from slavery and misery. tree →

note

Uncountable. A person held in slavery is a slave, though many historians now say "an enslaved person" to show it was done to them; the verb is "enslave". "Abolition" means ending slavery by law, and an abolitionist worked for that.

In the corpora

• The Haitian Revolution from 1791 overthrew slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, and Haiti became independent in 1804.
• Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its empire in 1833.
• About four million people in the USA became free when slavery ended.
• Ethan's friend says slavery ended in 1865, done.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «slavery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.