noun: compelled performance
noun: surrendering one's free will to that of another
noun: the system of owning people as slaves
noun: the practice of owning slaves
noun: work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
noun: the state of being under the control of another person
Sri Shankaracharya
"Manas (mind) is the cause of the slavery of a person and at the same time a tool of his liberation." [Sri Shankaracharya]
Thomas Sowell
"More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States." [Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks, White Liberals (2005)]
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