Difference between revisions of "slavery"

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The 1926 Slavery Convention described slavery as “...the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised...” Today slavery is defined in the broader sense of the word to mean any condition when a person is unfree.

There are multiple types of slavery:

1. chattel slavery, legalised or pseudolegalised ownership of another human.
2. wage slavery, condition when the worker cannot quit the job out of the fear of starvation.
3. serfdom, condition when the peasant doesn't control the land on which one grows food.
4. prison, taking away the freedom as the punishment for the crime.
5. military recruitment, forcing a person to serve in military.
6. sex slavery, forcing a person to perform sex acts. See also rape and prostitution.
7. slaving, which can mean performing hard tasks (but also being bossed around by the employer).
8. submissiveness, specifically in S&M.
9. slave drive or computer in computing reffers to the drive or computer which is either secondary to or responds to the commands of the master.

Etymology

The word “slave” comes from Latin sclavus relating to the Slavic people who were the majority of the slaves during the time the word was coined.

See also

• slave trade

External link

• Definition of “slave” on Wiktionary