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slave

noun as in one who is the property of another

verb as in work very hard

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According to Easton, racial hierarchy in the United States followed what he called “European slavery” under “the Feudal system,” where “slaves were fixed to the soil.”

From Salon

Authorities across the US are investigating after reports of text messages sent to black Americans with references to “slave catchers”, plantations and picking cotton.

From BBC

The UK has faced growing calls from Commonwealth leaders to pay reparations for the country's role in the slave trade.

From BBC

And, they argue, today’s prison labor industry is an extension of a law California passed soon after joining the union in 1850 that criminalized fugitive slaves and sent them back to plantations in the South.

But the report did not state that any children were, as Trump claimed, missing, dead, sex slaves, or slaves.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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