slave
Owned laborer, unpaid
A slave is a person owned as property by another, forced to work without freedom or compensation.
The institution of slavery has existed across cultures throughout history, though in American context it refers specifically to the race-based chattel slavery of Africans and their descendants.
Extended uses describe complete subjection: a slave to fashion, a slave to his appetites.
As a verb, to slave is to work extremely hard: She slaved over the report all weekend.
In computing, a slave device operates under the control of a master device.
Involuntary subjugation to another
- subjugationForcing into submission
- drudgeryHard, boring work
- toilStrenuous, prolonged effort
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
peonage · vassalage · serfdom · indenture · yoke · thrall · helotry · chattel
Large-scale farming operation
- chattelMovable personal property
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- Middle PassageTransatlantic slave trade crossing
- triangular tradeThree-legged Atlantic exchange system
abolitionism · Emancipation Proclamation · Underground Railroad · Dred Scott · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · Reconstruction · sharecropping
Savage, merciless behavior
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- subjugationForcing into submission
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
domination · exploitation · repression · violence · chains · whip · shackles · degradation
Erotic power dynamics
- submissionYielding to another's will
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- masterAuthority or controller
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
restraint · roleplay · power exchange · consensual · safeword · collar · subspace · dominant
bondage
Involuntary subjugation to another
- subjugationForcing into submission
- drudgeryHard, boring work
- toilStrenuous, prolonged effort
labor · peonage · vassalage · serfdom · indenture · yoke · thrall · helotry · chattel · servile
plantation
Large-scale farming operation
- chattelMovable personal property
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- Middle PassageTransatlantic slave trade crossing
triangular trade · abolitionism · Emancipation Proclamation · Underground Railroad · Dred Scott · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · Reconstruction · sharecropping · auction
brutality
Savage, merciless behavior
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- subjugationForcing into submission
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
racism · domination · exploitation · repression · violence · chains · whip · shackles · degradation · dehumanization
BDSM
Erotic power dynamics
- submissionYielding to another's will
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- masterAuthority or controller
discipline · restraint · roleplay · power exchange · consensual · safeword · collar · subspace · dominant · submissive
workaholic
Compulsive labor addict
- drudgeOne doing hard, dull labor
- grindCrush into particles
- rat raceExhausting competitive work routine
corporate · burnout · overwork · automaton · robot · drone · machine · servant · bound · chained
genealogy
Study of family descent
descendants · ancestors · bloodline · legacy · history · origin · diaspora · reparations · memory · descendant
- confinementcell, cage, prison, jail, imprisonment
- historical rolesking, queen, emperor, knight, peasant
- social rankstatus, rank, nobility, class, peerage
- social ranksking, queen, emperor, empress, noble
- ancient rolespharaoh, chieftain, tribal chief, tribal leader, village elder
- MesoamericaMaya, Aztec, Aztecs, Aztec Empire, Olmec
slavefreeman
Unchained person with rights
freedman · freedwoman · free agent · citizen · independent
slavemaster
Authority or controller
slaveowner · slaveholder · enslaver · owner · slaver
- modern slaveryCurrent forced labor exploitation
- sex slavesPeople held for exploitation
- slave tradeCommerce in human beings
- slave to fashionOne controlled by trends
- slave driverHarshly demanding boss
- slave awayWork extremely hard
slavery, slaves, enslave, slavish, enslaved, slaving, enslavement, slaver, Slavic