What is another word for Slaves?

Pronunciation: [slˈe͡ɪvz] (IPA)

The word "slaves" has a dark and oppressive history, with its connotations of ownership, exploitation, and dehumanization. As such, there are many different terms that have been used throughout history as synonyms for "slaves." These include words like "bondsmen," "indentured servants," "serfs," "thralls," "peons," "vassals," and "helots." Each of these terms carries different nuances and historical contexts, but they all refer to people who were subjected to forced labor and servitude. Choosing the right word to describe the experiences of enslaved people is important, as it can help us to understand the full impact of slavery on individuals and societies throughout history.

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Usage examples for Slaves

Like all things present and things to come, it is our help, we are not its Slaves.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Nevertheless, by that route Slaves were brought into Egypt.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
They all have no mercy for their Slaves.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Famous quotes with Slaves

  • Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
    Frederick Douglass
  • Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.
    Curt Siodmak
  • The Negro slave trade was the first step in modern world commerce, followed by the modern theory of colonial expansion. Slaves as an article of commerce were shipped as long as the traffic paid.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Satan's Slaves, number three in the outlaw hierarchy, custom-bike specialists with a taste for the flesh of young dogs, flashy headbands and tender young blondes with lobotomy eyes.
    Hunter S. Thompson
  • The population of Athens and Attica consisted of Slaves, resident aliens, and citizens. Slaves were excessively numerous. At a census taken in B.C. 309, the number of Slaves was returned at 400,000, and it does not seem likely that there were fewer at any time during the classical period. They were mostly Lydians, Phrygians, Thracians, and Scythians, imported from the coasts of the Propontis. ...They were employed for domestic purposes, or were let out for hire in gangs as labourers, or were allowed to work by themselves paying a yearly royalty to their masters. ...hardly any Athenian citizen can have been without two or three. The family of Aeschines (consisting of 6 persons) was considered very poor because it possessed only 7 Slaves. On the other hand, Plutarch says that Nicias let out 1,000 and Hipponicus 600 Slaves to work the gold mines in Thrace. The state possessed some Slaves of its own, who were employed chiefly as policemen and clerks. Slaves enjoyed considerable liberties in Athens, and had some rights, even against their masters. They did not serve as soldiers, or sailors, except when the city was in great straits, as at the battle of Arginussae... The worst prospect in store for them was that their masters might be engaged in a lawsuit, for the evidence of a slave (except in a few cases) was not admitted in a court of justice unless he had been put to torture. Slaves were sometimes freed by their masters, with some sort of public ceremony, or (for great services) by the state which paid their value to their masters.
    James Gow (scholar)

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