slaves
People in chains
Slaves is the plural of slave—people owned as property and forced to work without freedom or compensation.
The word appears in historical contexts slaves built the plantation economy and in figurative uses suggesting complete domination slaves to fashion, wage slaves.
As a verb, slaves means to work extremely hard: She slaves away at two jobs.
Involuntary subjugation to another
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- chattelMovable personal property
overseer · auction · shackles · Middle Passage · fugitive · manumission · Underground Railroad · servitude
Ancient Roman arena combatant
- RomeItaly's capital city
- GreeceBalkan peninsula nation
- EgyptNortheastern African nation
- helotState-owned serf
serf · servant · conquest · tribute · household · galley · mine · quarry
Selfish use of others
- forcedMade to occur unwillingly
- unpaidNot yet compensated
- coercedPressured into compliance
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
sweatshop · domestic · debt bondage · indentured · captive · oppression · servile · drudgery
Compulsive substance reliance
- habitSettled regular tendency
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
- workaholicCompulsive labor addict
- devoteeZealous admirer or follower
prisoner · captive · beholden · driven · obsessed · controlled · dominated · consumed
Programmable automated machine
- droneUnmanned flying machine
- deviceConstructed tool or machine
- automatedOperating without human control
- peripheralExternal computer add-on
secondary · backup · server · node · replication · synchronization · controller · primary
bondage
Involuntary subjugation to another
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
chattel · overseer · auction · shackles · Middle Passage · fugitive · manumission · Underground Railroad · servitude · rebellion
gladiator
Ancient Roman arena combatant
helot · serf · servant · conquest · tribute · household · galley · mine · quarry · tutor
exploitation
Selfish use of others
trafficking · sweatshop · domestic · debt bondage · indentured · captive · oppression · servile · drudgery · toil
addiction
Compulsive substance reliance
- habitSettled regular tendency
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
- workaholicCompulsive labor addict
devotee · prisoner · captive · beholden · driven · obsessed · controlled · dominated · consumed · dependent
robot
Programmable automated machine
- droneUnmanned flying machine
- deviceConstructed tool or machine
- automatedOperating without human control
peripheral · secondary · backup · server · node · replication · synchronization · controller · primary · subordinate
- ancient worldancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient Egypt, pyramids, pyramid
- Ancient RomansJulius Caesar, patricians, consuls, Marcus Aurelius, Nero
- underlingsunderling, underlings, subordinate, minions, minion
- MesoamericaMaya, Aztec, Aztecs, Aztec Empire, Olmec
- ancient feastssymposium, banquet, feast, feasting, reclining
- ancient populationscitizens, freedmen, nobles, peasants, commoners
slavesfreemen
Those no longer enslaved
freedmen · citizens · sovereigns · nobility · aristocrats
slavesmasters
Those with dominion
owners · slaveholders · enslavers · overlords · slave owners
- 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
slave, slavery, enslave, enslaved, slaving, enslavement, slaver, slaved, enslaves