slaveless
Free of servitude
Without slaves; not employing or possessing enslaved people.
The term appears in historical contexts describing societies, households, or economies that operated without slavery: a slaveless North versus a slaveholding South, The family ran a slaveless farm.
It can also describe periods after abolition: the slaveless era following emancipation.
Independent management of affairs
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- self-ruleGovernance without outside control
- self-sufficiencyIndependence from outside aid
self-reliance · independence · empowerment · agency · unconstrained · unyoked · unbound · unfettered
Release from legal bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- antislaveryOpposing human bondage
- 13th AmendmentConstitutional slavery prohibition
Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · William Wilberforce · abolitionist · freedman · freedwoman · liberation · unshackling
Equality principle supporter
- wage laborWork exchanged for payment
- nonslaveholdingNot owning enslaved persons
- post-emancipationAfter slavery's formal end
- reconstructionRebuilding after destruction
self-governance
Independent management of affairs
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- self-ruleGovernance without outside control
self-sufficiency · self-reliance · independence · empowerment · agency · unconstrained · unyoked · unbound · unfettered · unshackled
emancipation
Release from legal bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- antislaveryOpposing human bondage
13th Amendment · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · William Wilberforce · abolitionist · freedman · freedwoman · liberation · unshackling · deliverance
egalitarian
Equality principle supporter
- wage laborWork exchanged for payment
- nonslaveholdingNot owning enslaved persons
- post-emancipationAfter slavery's formal end
slave, slaves, slaved, slaving, slavish, slavishly, slavery, slaveholder, slaveholders