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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.
Slave trade in the Mongol Empire
The slave trade in the Mongol Empire utilized a massive international network to move war captives across Eurasia, a system that peaked during the empire's conquests in the 13th century.
Slaven Bilić
Slaven Bilić is a Croatian football manager and former defender, head coach of Croatia since 2026 and third-place finisher at the 1998 World Cup as a player.
Slăveni Roman Fort
Slăveni Roman Fort (Castrul roman de la Slăveni, La Cetate): Roman auxiliary fort on the Olt River, Olt County, Romania, on the limes Alutanus. Earth-and-timber Trajanic phase, stone fort of 205 CE, garrisoned by ala I Hispanorum; destroyed mid-3rd century.
Slavery
Slavery is the treatment of people as property owned by others, forced to work; at least 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the Americas between 1501 and 1866.
Slavery Abolition Act 1833
Slavery Abolition Act 1833: UK statute of 28 August 1833 abolishing slavery in most British colonies from 1 August 1834, imposing apprenticeship until 1838, and paying slave owners £20 million, about 40 percent of government revenue, for roughly 800,000 enslaved people, excluding East India Company territories.
Slavery among Native Americans in the United States
Slavery among Native Americans in the United States: Indigenous captivity practices, European enslavement of Native people (2.5-5 million estimate), the Southeastern Indian slave trade of 1685-1715, and chattel slavery practiced by the Five Civilized Tribes until the 1866 treaties.
Slavery in Africa
Slavery in Africa, also called the slave trade in Africa, is the history of enslavement within the continent and the trans-Saharan, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean trades.
Slavery in al-Andalus
Slavery in al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia, 8th–15th centuries): household, court, military, and agricultural servitude under Mālikī law, with concubinage, eunuchs, graduated slave statuses, manumission, and enslaved Christians under Islamic rule.
Slavery in ancient Egypt
Slavery in ancient Egypt: coerced labor from the Old Kingdom (c. 2686 BCE) to the Ptolemaic period (30 BCE), also called bound labor and corvée. Mostly small-scale and domestic until Hellenistic times; prisoners of war were the main source; pyramids were built by corvée workers, not slaves.
Slavery in ancient Greece
Slavery in ancient Greece: heritable, legally sanctioned ownership of people across over 1,000 city-states; Athenian foreign chattel slaves versus Spartan helots; entry by war, trade, and birth; Finley's first slave societies.
Slavery in ancient Rome
Slavery in ancient Rome: the legal ownership of people (servi) under dominium, one of Finley's few genuine slave societies. Roughly 1 in 3 in Italy enslaved; sourced from war, birth, piracy; marked by frequent manumission and revolts like Spartacus's.
Slavery in Australia
Slavery in Australia: never formally legal, but documented through Pacific Islander blackbirding, coerced Aboriginal labour, and legacies of British slave-owning wealth; today governed by the Modern Slavery Act 2018, Criminal Code Divisions 270–271, and the Tang High Court precedent.
Slavery in Brazil
Slavery in Brazil: chattel slavery of Africans and their descendants, the largest destination of the Atlantic slave trade (nearly 5 million disembarked), with quilombo resistance such as Palmares, gradual emancipation laws, and abolition on 13 May 1888, the last in the Americas.
Slavery in Britain
Slavery in Britain: chattel slavery in Anglo-Saxon England, at least 10% of the Domesday population, supplied by war, penal enslavement and Viking-linked trade, surviving past 1000 when it died out elsewhere in Europe and fading into serfdom after 1066.
Slavery in Canada
Slavery in Canada: chattel slavery of Indigenous and African people in New France and British North America, c. 1629 to 1 August 1834. About 4,200 enslaved people, two-thirds Indigenous; legalized 1709, limited 1793, abolished by the British Slavery Abolition Act.
Slavery in Goryeo
Slavery in Goryeo was the hereditary institution of nobi, slaves held by the state and private households throughout the Korean Goryeo dynasty from 918 to 1392.
Slavery in India
Slavery in India spans ancient dāsa servitude, Mughal domestic and military slavery, colonial-era abolition by the Indian Slavery Act of 1843, and continuing debt bondage under the 1976 Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act.
Slavery in Mauritania
Slavery in Mauritania is hereditary, descent-based servitude of Haratines to Beydane masters. Abolished by ordinance in 1981, criminalized in 2007, strengthened by 2015 and 2020 laws; estimates range from 43,000 to 149,000 enslaved.
Slavery in medieval Europe
Slavery in medieval Europe, also called slavery in the Middle Ages, persisted from roughly 500 to 1500; slave trading was Europe's largest commercial enterprise, dealing chiefly in non-Christians.
Slavery in the 21st century
Slavery in the 21st century, known as modern slavery, is the umbrella term for forced labor and forced marriage, estimated at 49.6 million people worldwide in 2021.
Slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate
Slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) covered urban domestic service, concubinage, mamluk soldiers, and Zanj plantation labor in Iraq; the Zanj Rebellion of 869–883 led by Ali ibn Muhammad devastated southern Iraq.