Sentence examples for condition of a slave from inspiring English sources

I. In abstr., the condition of a slave or servant, slavery, servitude (not so in Cic., who has servitus).

To be dominated in such an arbitrary way was to be reduced to the condition of a slave who must act as his or her master wills.

Hence the condition of a slave is hardly more burdensome than that of a subject.

Gangs, known as 'Snakeheads', transport asylum seekers from China into Britain and then often exploit them by holding them in a condition of virtual slave labour.

My working conditions were like that of a slave," said Mr Yim.

The Latin libertas and Greek eleutheria both indicated a condition of independence, unlike a slave.

At 19 years old, LeVar made a powerful television debut in the mini-series adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which helped cultivate a new understanding of the condition of the American slave.

But despite the boom the charity says conditions for many workers on cruise vessels remain reminiscent of a slave galley.

Their ramshackle construction and original brick chimneys were no less powerful a reminder of the brutal condition of the slaves than the hidden staircase at Drayton was.

It was not primarily the working conditions of the slave, with a lack of pecuniary reward and a vulnerability to violence that most incensed anti-slavery crusaders.

The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.