slave
slave a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. The word comes in Middle English from a shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava ‘Slavonic (captive)’: the Slavonic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th century.
Slave Coast part of the west coast of Africa, between the Volta River and Mount Cameroon, from which slaves were exported in the 16th–19th centuries.
Slave Kings a dynasty founded by a former slave, Qutb uddin Aibak, which ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1206 to 1290.
Slave of the Lamp in the story of Aladdin, a genie summoned by rubbing a magic lamp and bound to perform the wishes of the lamp's possessor.
Slave State any of the Southern states of the US in which slavery was legal before the Civil War.
See also better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave, white slave.
Slave Coast part of the west coast of Africa, between the Volta River and Mount Cameroon, from which slaves were exported in the 16th–19th centuries.
Slave Kings a dynasty founded by a former slave, Qutb uddin Aibak, which ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1206 to 1290.
Slave of the Lamp in the story of Aladdin, a genie summoned by rubbing a magic lamp and bound to perform the wishes of the lamp's possessor.
Slave State any of the Southern states of the US in which slavery was legal before the Civil War.
See also better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave, white slave.
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