Synonyms for
Slaves
Definition
Slaves are people who are owned by someone else and have to work for them without being paid.
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Antonyms
Common collocations
- slave labor
- slave owner
- slave trade
- slave revolt
- slave mentality
- slave driver
- slave state
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Usage note
The term 'slave' carries extremely negative connotations due to its historical association with brutal oppression and dehumanization. It is generally used in historical contexts or to describe extreme exploitation.
Example sentences
- Slaves were treated very poorly in the past.
- The abolition of slavery was an important moment in history.
- Many people fought to end the practice of slavery.
- Slavery is illegal in most parts of the world today.
- The slaves on the plantation worked from dawn until dusk.
Quotes
I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? - Sojourner Truth
Slavery is the oldest and most shameful form of inequality. - Jesse Jackson
Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne. - Kevin Bales