The word 'slave' is correct and usable in written English when referring to the practice of involuntarily holding humans as property.
For example: "The abolition of slavery brought an end to the inhumane institution of the slave trade."
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
He became a slave, and was sold as a gladiator.
The designer also seeks to challenge a world still using 50s techniques, where a dress takes weeks to make and an atelier's petite mains, or seamstresses, slave over sequins.
Talak inherited her slave status from her parents, who were captured in a raid by Tuaregs against their village.
We have now forgotten that in the summer of 1854, when Anthony Burns – who had run away from slavery in Richmond, Virginia – was returned to slavery by a state judge acting as a federal commissioner under the second fugitive slave act, Boston itself had to be placed under martial law for three whole days.
Not only is there the violent transatlantic slave trade (which still has ramifications in the present and is a deeply upsetting topic for many people) to bear in mind; there is also the issue of the global modern day slave trade, which, according to the latest figures, enslaves more people today than were enslaved during the entire 350-year history of the transatlantic slave trade.
They also refused to buy from cattle farms that had recently cleared forest land or in any way employed slave labor.
"There's no special backlash going on now, other than maybe the residual effect of resentment after 12 Years A Slave.
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has called on the United Nations to investigate evidence that thousands of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates, including those building a new Louvre museum and the world's largest Guggenheim, are treated as slave labour.
Keza, who comes from a poor district in the capital, says she was locked up and used as a sex slave by a senior intelligence officer for several months when she was 15. "He threatened me and he threatened my parents," she says, adding that she no longer wishes to see her family after the ordeal.
This is not quite true – Newton continued being a slave trader after he had converted to Christianity, did not speak out against slavery until 30 years after he left the trade, and became a rector.
