SLAVERY

n. 1 enslavement, bondage, thraldom, thrall, enthralment, servitude, serfdom, vassalage, yoke; subjugation, captivity, Historical US peculiar institution All of those ancient cultures that we venerate practised slavery 2 slave-trade, blackbirding No one ever mentions that the family fortune had been made from slavery 3 toil, moil, drudgery, travail, grind, strain, (hard) labour She remembered the years of slavery she had spent at the kitchen sink