slavery

柯林斯詞典

1. N-UNCOUNT Slavery is the system by which people are owned by other people as slaves. 奴隸制
My people have survived 400 years of slavery. 我的民族歷經400年的奴隸制度后幸存了下來。

William Wilberforce campaigned for the abolition of slavery.
The American Civil War was fought between the North and the South partly over the issue of slavery.
Beneath the surface of contemporary West Indian life lurk memories of slavery.
France abolished slavery on April 27, 1848.
His African-American parents had fled from Kentucky to escape slavery.