Slavery vs Freedom - What's the difference?
slavery | freedom |
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,
(uncountable) The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
(countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
* Milton
Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
As nouns the difference between slavery and freedom
is that slavery is an institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers while freedom is (uncountable) the state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.slavery
English
(wikipedia slavery)Noun
(en-noun)- Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery .
See also
* debt bondage * bonded labor * bonded labourReferences
* * * * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.freedom
English
(wikipedia freedom)Noun
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
- I emboldened spake and freedom used.