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Slaughter (American band)
Slaughter is an American glam metal band formed in 1988 in Las Vegas by Mark Slaughter and Dana Strum, ex-Vinnie Vincent Invasion. Known for Stick It to Ya (1990), the hits Up All Night and Fly to the Angels, and over 5 million records sold.
Slaughter to Prevail
Slaughter to Prevail, Russian deathcore band of Aleksandr "Alex Terrible" Shikolai and Jack Simmons; albums Misery Sermon, Kostolom, Grizzly; anti-war stance, Russian fine, Blood4Blood BKFC event.
Slaughter-House Cases
Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873), also called the New Orleans slaughterhouse cases: 5-4 Supreme Court decision, the first reading of the Fourteenth Amendment, confining Privileges or Immunities to national citizenship and upholding Louisiana's Crescent City slaughterhouse monopoly.
Slaughterbots
Slaughterbots is a 7-minute 2017 short film by the Future of Life Institute, directed by Stewart Sugg, dramatizing AI-driven micro-drone swarms killing targeted humans; it coined the popular term for lethal autonomous weapons and premiered at the UN CCW.
Slaughtered Vomit Dolls
Slaughtered Vomit Dolls is a 2006 Canadian experimental horror film by Lucifer Valentine, first of the Vomit Gore Trilogy, starring Ameara Lavey as Angela Aberdeen; 71 minutes, released 14 February 2006.
Slaughterhouse
Slaughterhouse (abattoir): facility where farmed animals are killed for meat. Regulated by EU Regulation 1099/2009, US Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, and WOAH Chapter 7.5, covering stunning, welfare, hygiene, and environment.
Slaughterhouse (group)
Slaughterhouse: American hip-hop supergroup of Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Royce da 5'9", and Crooked I, formed 2008 from the Halfway House track; E1 debut 2009, Shady's Welcome to: Our House 2012.
Slaughterhouse Rulez
Slaughterhouse Rulez: 2018 British comedy horror film, Crispian Mills's directorial work and first release from Pegg and Frost's Stolen Picture; fracking at a boarding school unleashes monsters, grossing $730,762 worldwide.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war novel subtitled The Children's Crusade, tells Billy Pilgrim's Dresden firebombing trauma through non-linear time, Tralfamadore aliens, and the refrain So it goes.
Slaughterhouse-Five (film)
Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 American anti-war science fiction comedy-drama directed by George Roy Hill, adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's novel and starring Michael Sacks as Billy Pilgrim.
Slauson & Co
Slauson & Co is a Los Angeles-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Austin Clements and Ajay Relan to invest in underrepresented US technology founders.
Slauson Rec
Slauson Rec is Leo Lewis O'Neil's 2025 documentary, premiered at Cannes, about Shia LaBeouf's free experimental theater school at the Slauson Rec Center in South Central Los Angeles (2018–2020), built from about 800 hours of participant-shot footage.
Slava Marlow
Slava Marlow (Слава Марлоу), born Artyom Gotlib, is a Russian music producer and recording artist from Novosibirsk who produced Morgenshtern's hits before building a successful solo career.
Slava Ukraini (Слава Україні)
Slava Ukraini (Слава Україні), "Glory to Ukraine", is a Ukrainian patriotic greeting answered by "Heroyam slava". Official Armed Forces salute since 2018; documented from late-19th-century Kharkiv; its fascist-slogan characterization is disputed.
Slava-class cruiser
The Slava-class cruiser (Soviet Project 1164 Atlant) is a class of guided-missile cruisers built in the 1980s as carrier killers, now operated by the Russian Navy.
Slave breeding in the United States
Slave breeding in the United States, also called slave breeding in America, is the alleged or documented practice by slave owners of controlling enslaved people's reproduction for profit.
Slave Coast
The Slave Coast was the name European traders gave the West African coast on the Bight of Benin, a principal source of enslaved Africans for the transatlantic slave trade.
Slave collar
Slave collar: metal neck band or locked ring placed on enslaved people to mark ownership and deter flight. Best known are about 45 Roman examples of the 4th–5th centuries C.E., including the Zoninus collar promising a gold coin, and circa-1860 American iron collars.
Slave Inspection Law of 956
The Slave Inspection Law of 956 (奴婢按檢法) was a decree by Gwangjong of Goryeo that freed people unjustly enslaved by the powerful and restored them to commoner status.
Slave Investigation Act
The Slave Investigation Act (노비안검법), also called the Slave Review Act, was a 956 Goryeo law under King Gwangjong that restored wrongfully enslaved people to commoner status.
Slave Labor Graphics
Slave Labor Graphics (SLG), founded by Dan Vado in San Jose in 1986, is an independent comics publisher known for Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Lenore, and Milk and Cheese, its Amaze Ink imprint, and its 2011 digital-first conversion.
Slave narrative
Slave narrative: first-person testimony of enslaved people, from Equiano, Douglass (1845), and Jacobs (1861) to the 2,300-account WPA corpus; a genre defined by purpose, not form.
Slavé Petrovski
Slavé Petrovski is an Australian human geneticist known for developing the RVIS gene-tolerance score, who has led AstraZeneca's Centre for Genomics Research in Cambridge since 2021.
Slave Play
Slave Play, Jeremy O. Harris's three-act drama about interracial couples in Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy; premiered 2018 at NYTW, Broadway 2019, record 12 Tony nominations, 2024 West End premiere.
Slave rebellion
Slave rebellion: organized armed uprisings by enslaved people, from Rome's Servile Wars (135–132, 104–100, 73–71 BC) and Tacky's Revolt (1760–61) to the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), Stono, the 1811 German Coast Uprising, and Nat Turner's 1831 revolt, ending slavery only in Haiti but influencing abolition.
Slave rebellion and resistance in the United States
Slave rebellion and resistance in the United States covers armed uprisings such as the 1811 German Coast and Nat Turner's 1831 rebellion, escape via the Underground Railroad, maroon communities, everyday defiance, and repressive slave codes, from 1526 to abolition in 1865.
Slave ship
A slave ship was a merchant vessel converted to carry enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to sale in the Americas, historically known as a Guineaman.
Slave states and free states
Slave states and free states were the pre-Civil War U.S. legal division over slavery. Congress preserved Senate balance by paired admissions (Missouri Compromise 1820, Compromise of 1850) until Kansas-Nebraska, Dred Scott, and the 13th Amendment ended it.
Slave to the Rhythm (Michael Jackson song)
Michael Jackson song "Slave to the Rhythm," also "Slave to the Rhythm (Original Version)": a 1989/1991 L.A. Reid and Babyface track from the Dangerous sessions, released May 13, 2014 on Xscape with a Timbaland remix, performed by hologram at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards; unrelated to Grace Jones's 1985 song of the same title.
Slave Trade Act 1807
The Slave Trade Act 1807, formally the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, was an act of Parliament abolishing the Atlantic slave trade throughout the British Empire from 1 May 1807.