slavery's
Belonging to forced labor
Slavery's is the possessive form of slavery, the practice of treating humans as property.
It typically modifies nouns describing aspects or consequences of the institution: slavery's legacy, slavery's abolition, slavery's defenders.
The form appears most often in historical and political discourse about the lasting effects of human bondage.
Formal discontinuation of practice
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- chattelMovable personal property
antebellum · Confederate · Underground Railroad · Thirteenth Amendment · auction · overseer · fugitive · manumission
Illegal transport for profit
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
- indenturedContracted to serve
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
colonial · Caribbean · Brazilian · Atlantic · African · trade routes · triangular trade · sugar
Work done without payment
- commodityFungible traded good
- auction blockPodium for public sales
- profitsFinancial surplus after costs
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
capital · inheritance · insurance · accumulation · productivity · agriculture · industry · compensation
Linked metal restraints
- shacklesMetal bonds for prisoners
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- subjugationForcing into submission
- dominationSupreme authority held
tyranny · captivity · imprisonment · addiction · exploitation · control · submission · liberation
What's passed down
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- descendantsThose who come after
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- traumaLasting psychological wound
memory · narrative · survivors · documentation · archives · genealogy · oral history · remembrance
abolition
Formal discontinuation of practice
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
chattel · antebellum · Confederate · Underground Railroad · Thirteenth Amendment · auction · overseer · fugitive · manumission · abolitionist
trafficking
Illegal transport for profit
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
- indenturedContracted to serve
servitude · colonial · Caribbean · Brazilian · Atlantic · African · trade routes · triangular trade · sugar · cotton
unpaid labor
Work done without payment
- commodityFungible traded good
- auction blockPodium for public sales
- profitsFinancial surplus after costs
wealth · capital · inheritance · insurance · accumulation · productivity · agriculture · industry · compensation · restitution
chains
Linked metal restraints
- shacklesMetal bonds for prisoners
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- subjugationForcing into submission
domination · tyranny · captivity · imprisonment · addiction · exploitation · control · submission · liberation · freedom
legacy
What's passed down
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- descendantsThose who come after
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
trauma · memory · narrative · survivors · documentation · archives · genealogy · oral history · remembrance · monuments
- modern slaveryCurrent forced labor exploitation
- slavery historyDocumentation of human chattel
- abolition of slaveryEnding legalized human ownership
- colonial slaveryForced labor in occupied territories
- wage slaveryCompulsory labor for survival
- anti-slavery movementCampaign against human bondage