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Prisoner vs Slavery - What's the difference?

prisoner | slavery |

As nouns the difference between prisoner and slavery

is that prisoner is a person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence while slavery is an institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.

prisoner

English

(wikipedia prisoner)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
  • Any person held against their will.
  • *
  • *:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

    • Related terms

    * imprison * prison

    slavery

    English

    (wikipedia slavery)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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,
    • Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery .

    See also

    * debt bondage * bonded labor * bonded labour

    References

    * * * * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.