Slavery
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123314
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85123314#concept
Variants
- Abolition of slavery
- Antislavery
- Enslavement
- Mui tsai
- Ownership of slaves
- Servitude
- Slave keeping
- Slave system
- Slaveholding
- Thralldom
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
Related Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Esclavage 
Esclavitud 
orjuus 
Schiavitù 
Sklaverei 
slavery 
Slavery - Slavery British colonies
- Slavery British colonies Anti-slavery movements
- Slavery British colonies Emancipation
- Slavery British colonies Justification
- Slavery Dutch colonies
- Slavery French colonies
- Slavery French colonies Anti-slavery movements
- Slavery French colonies Emancipation
- Slavery Portuguese colonies
- Slavery Portuguese colonies Emancipation
- Slavery Spanish colonies
- Slavery Spanish colonies Anti-slavery movements
- Slavery Speeches in Congress
- Slavery US territories and possessions
Narrower Concepts from Other Schemes
- Slavery--Archival resources
- Slavery--Biblical teaching
- Slavery--Colonies
- Slavery--Controversial literature
- Slavery--Econometric models
- Slavery--Economic aspects
- Slavery--Economic aspects--French colonies
- Slavery--Emancipation--Economic aspects--British colonies
- Slavery--Government policy
- Slavery--Historiography
- Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects
- Slavery--Philosophy
- Slavery--Political aspects
- Slavery--Psychological aspects
- Slavery--Public opinion
- Slavery--Social aspects
- Slavery--Social conditions
- Slavery--Societies, etc
- Slavery--Songs and music
- Slavery--Sources
- Slavery--Study and teaching
- Slavery--Study and teaching (Secondary)
Sources
- found: Yourdictionary.com WWW site, Apr. 17, 2009(Slavery; synonyms: thralldom, slaveholding)
- found: Google search, Apr. 14, 2009(137,000 hits: slave system 'slavery')
- found: LC database, July 21, 2011(enslavement)
- found: Merriam-Webster unabridged, via WWW, July 21, 2011(enslavement 1 : the act or process of enslaving <the gradual enslavement of primitive peoples>; 2 : the state of being enslaved : BONDAGE, SERVITUDE)
- found: Address to the inhabitants of the British settlements in America, upon slave-keeping, 1775
- found: "Observations on slave keeping" in Providence gazette, 4 December 1773.
- found: "'Child slavery' in British and French Far-Eastern colonies 1880-1945" in Past & Present, no. 201 (November 2008):page 176 (mui tsai = "little younger sister"; girls sold into domestic bond service by their families in Asia) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/25580913
- found: Women and Chinese patriarchy, 1994:page xiv (mui tsai = girls sold into domestic servitude) page 11 (mui tsai = widespread institution in China where families sold unwanted girls due to poverty, natural disasters, or war) page 12 (mui tsai were officially abolished by the Communist government circa 1950, but the practice continued covertly) - https://archive.org/details/womenchinesepatr0000unse/page/n9/mode/2up?q=mui+tsai
- found: The Enduring Vision, v. 1, 2014:page 232 (Benjamin Banneker refers uses the euphemism "thralldom" for the institution of slavery in a 19 Aug 1791 letter to the Secretary of State Th Jefferson)
- found: "Thralldom" in The free dictionary, viewed 13 December 2022(the state of being in the power of another person, such as a slave or serf) - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/thralldom
- found: "Thralldom" in Merriam-Webster thesaurus, viewed 13 December 2022(synonyms: slavery, servitude, enslavement, bondage) - https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thralldom
LC Classification
- E441-E453
- HT851-HT1445
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Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2023-05-04: revised
Alternate Formats