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Slaveries
Slavery Slav"er*y, n.; pl. Slaveries. [See 2d Slave.] 1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! --Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this state [Virginia] could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future mischief. --Washington. 2. A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will. The vulgar slaveries rich men submit to. --C. Lever. There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish, -- the slavery of caste. --G. W. Cable. 3. The holding of slaves. Syn: Bondage; servitude; inthrallment; enslavement; captivity; bond service; vassalage.

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- the front o battle lour, See approach proud Edward's power— Chains and Slaverie. Now's the day, and now's the hour: See the front of battle lower (threaten)...
- Francis Knight is the name of: the author of A Relation of Seven Yeares Slaverie Under the Turkes of Argeire, suffered by an English Captive Merchant, published...
- imprisonment in 1649. In October 1645 Walwyn published England's Lamentable Slaverie, his famous rebuke to John Lilburne, in which he criticised his fellow...
- legal sanction to certain kinds of slavery. There shall never be any bond slaverie, villinage or captivitie amongst us unless it be lawfull captives taken...
- their local Puritan church. P****age 91: "There shall never be any bond slaverie, villinage or Captivitie amongst us unles it be lawfull Captives taken...
- Iust Complaint against an Uniust Doer: Wherein is declared the miserable slaverie & bondage that the English Church of Amsterdam is now in, by reason of...
- enforce said declaration. Francis Knight's A Relation of Seven Yeares Slaverie Under the Turkes of Argeire, suffered by an English Captive Merchant is...