Imprisonment vs Slavery - What's the difference?
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A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
* Spenser
* Blackstone
* (Sir Walter Raleigh)
An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
(figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
* 1818 , ,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 8, stanza 16,
Imprisonment is a related term of slavery.
As nouns the difference between imprisonment and slavery
is that imprisonment is a confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime while slavery is an institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.imprisonment
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Alternative forms
* emprisonment (obsolete)Noun
- His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.
- Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment , whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments , tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings
slavery
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(wikipedia slavery)Noun
(en-noun)- Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery .