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slave Noun 1. a person legally owned by another for whom he or she has to work without freedom, pay, or rights 2. a person under the domination of another or of some habit or influence: a slave to party doctrine 3. Informal a badly-paid person doing menial tasks Verb [slaving, slaved] (often foll. by away, over)to work very hard for little or no money [Medieval Latin Sclavus a Slav (the Slavonic races were frequently conquered in the Middle Ages)]
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| Ca- pable of high attainments as an intellectual and moral being--needing nothing but a comparatively small amount of cultivation to make him an orna- ment to society and a blessing to his race--by the law of the land, by the voice of the people, by the terms of the slave code, he was only a piece of property, a beast of burden, a chattel personal, nevertheless! All relatives have correlatives: by the term 'slave' we mean the slave of a master, by the term 'master', the master of a slave; by 'double', the double of its hall; by 'half', the half of its double; by 'greater', greater than that which is less; by 'less,' less than that which is greater.
I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. |
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