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Definition of Slave
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Slave
See Slav. A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition. A drudge; one who labors like a slave. An abject person; a wretch. To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave. To enslave. Related Definitions:
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Slave Quotations
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. Ralph Waldo Emerson A man in debt is so far a slave. Ralph Waldo Emerson I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. Thomas Jefferson |
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Slave Translations
slave in Afrikaans is slaaf slave in Dutch is slaaf slave in French is esclave Slave in German is Sklave slave in Hungarian is rabszolga slave in Italian is schiava, schiavo slave in Latin is famulus, servus slave in Portuguese is escravo slave in Spanish is esclavo slave in Swedish is slav |
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