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slaves

noun as in person who serves, often under duress

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

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.

As part of the policy, British plantation owners were paid £20m for the loss of their slaves, creating a debt the UK only finished paying off in 2015.

From BBC

The group was known to abduct children and turn them into child soldiers or sex slaves.

From BBC

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

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