Slavery

Slavery is a condition of control over a person, known as a slave, that can be enforced by violence or other forms of coercion against his or her will. Slavery almost always occurs for the purpose of securing the labor of the slave. A specific form, known as chattel slavery, is defined by the absolute legal ownership of a person or persons, including the legal right to buy and sell them.

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The 1926 Slavery Convention described slavery as "...the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised..." Therefore, a slave is someone who cannot leave an owner or employer without explicit permission, and who will be returned if they escape. Control may be accomplished through official or tacit arrangements with local authorities by masters who have some influence because of their social or economic status.

Violence: Violence refers to acts —typically connotative with aggressive and criminal behaviour —which intend to cause or is causing of injury to persons, animals, or (in limited cases) property. Harm to non-human animals may be considered violence, though this depends on the social mores related ...

Coercion: Coercion is the practice of compelling a person to act by employing threat of harm (usually physical force, sometimes other forms of harm). Often, it involves the use of actual force in order to make the threat credible, but it is the threat of (further) force which brings about cooperation of the p...

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Slavery related Images and Photos (experimental)

From Slavery to the White House 2011 Wall Calendar	The Great Anti-Slavery Meeting at Exeter Hall London	Thomas Clarkson Leading English Slavery Abolitionist	Slavery by Another Name The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to WWII (Hardcover) Book
Slave-Branding from "Leeds Anti-Slavery Series" 1853	Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies 23rd April 1848 1849	Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies 23rd April 1848 1849	Cross-Section of a Slave Ship from a Manuscript on Slavery Late 18th Century
Lucretia Mott American Reformer Wife of a Quaker Minister Slavery Abolitionist	Mr. and Mrs. Prince How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend (Paperback) Book	Henry Clay Urging Measures of Compromise to Congress in Regard to Slavery Dispute in January 1850	Central Africa a Convoy of Captured Negroes Taken into Slavery