SLAVE, SLAVERY
ADJECTIVES
– ABOLITIONAL relating to the abolition of the slave trade or slavery …1836 rare
– ABOLITIONARY concerned with the abolition of destruction of something; advocating the abolition of the slave trade or slavery …1823
– MANCIPATE made subject to slavery …1502 obs.
– NATIVE born in a state of villeinage …1432-50 obs.
– REFUSE of slaves: worthless … 1756 US
– VENALITIOUS belonging to the sale of men or children, or of slaves; that is to be bought or sold …1656 rare
– VERNACULAR of a slave: that is born on his master’s estate; home-born …1804 rare
NOUNS
– BAGNIO an oriental prison; a place of detention for slaves; a penal establishment …1599
– BARRACOON a rough barrack, set of sheds, or enclosure in which Black slaves (originally), convicts, etc., are temporarily detained …1851
– BLACKBIRD CATCHING the slave trade; recruiting coloured labourers in the South Sea Islands…Bk1892 Aust. sl.
– BLACKBIRDER a man or a vessel engaged in ‘black-birding’ or slave traffic …1888
– CATASTA a block on which slaves were exposed for sale …1650
– CRAWL on the coast of Africa, a pen for slaves awaiting shipment … 1867
– DULOCRACY government by slaves; the rule of slaves …1824
– ENTRAMELLS bondage, the chains of slavery; prisoners of war …Bk1900 Sc.
– FORTY ACRES AND A MULE an unkept promise made by northern politicians to divide the lands of slaveholders and give forty acres and a mule to any freed man who wanted a farm …US Civil War usage
• FUGACY a being a fugitive slave … c1600 obs.
– MANCIPATION the act of enslaving; the state of being enslaved …1577
– MAN-MERCHANDISE slave-dealing …1788
– MAN-TRADE the slave-trade …1760
– MANUMISSION formal release from slavery or servitude; an or instance of this …1432-50 obs. exc. Hist.
– QUARTERS the section of a plantation where the slaves lived …1750s African-American
NOUNS, PERSON
– ABOLITIONIST an advocate of the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of African slaves in the United States …1791
– AFRICO a Black slave …1682 Anglo-Indian
– ARTICLE a slave regarded as an item of merchandize …1796 obs.
– BAGGAGE a woman due to be sent to South America in the White slave trade …1928 sl.
– BEFORE ABE a slave …Bk1945 jive usage
– BIRD a ‘blackbird”; an African slave en route from the place of capture to their destination …1887 US sl.
– BLACKBIRD a Black person who has been taken captive as a slave …1853 sl., orig. & chiefly nautical usage
– BLACKBIRDER a man or a vessel engaged in ‘black-birding’ or slave traffic …1888
– BLACK CATTLE Black slaves …Bk1922 Eng. sl. obs.
– BLACK DIAMOND a Black slave …1860 slave trade usage
– BLACK FLESH Black slaves …1827 US
– BLACK IVORY Black slaves …1864 sl.
– BOND a serf; a base vassal; a slave …ME obs. exc. hist.
– BONDMAID a slave girl …1526
– BOND MAIDEN a slave girl …1535
– BONDMAN a peasant; a serf; a slave; a person in a state of utter servitude
– BONDSMAN a person in bondage; a slave …M18
– BONDWOMAN a female slave
– BOY formerly a slave or servant; later sometimes used of a Black adult male, usually considered insulting when the speaker is White …1764 Amer. dial.
– CONGO orig. a slave from the Congo region; later, any slave; then any Black person …1855 Amer. dial.
– GALLERIAN a galley slave …a1640
– GALLEY-BIRD a galley-slave …1655 obs.
– KOOKIE; KOOKY; KUKI a slave of a Maori chieftain …1832 NZ
– MAMELUKE a slave in Mohammedan countries …1600
– MANCIPLE a bondslave, a servant …1387 obs.
– MAN’S-BOND a slave, a bondsman …c1330 obs.
– MANUMISS a freed slave …1658 obs.
– MUNGO a Black person, esp. a slave …1768 hist.
– ODALISQUE a female slave or concubine in an Eastern harem, esp. in the seraglio of the Sultan of Turkey …1681
– OKIE a slave labourer …1945 US Army in Germany usage
– OLD MASSA a Black person’s term of address to a White slave-holder …1680s African-American
– PACK-HORSE a drudge; a menial servant; a slave …1594
– SCLAVE a slave, a drudge …1969 Sc.
– SOUL DRIVER a person who drove slaves for sale from one place to another …1774 US
– SUCKLER a slave woman with an abundant supply of milk whose duty it was to nurse the babies of mothers who worked …1700s African-American
– VASSAL a base or abject person; a slave …1589
– WILLY the stereotype of a domestic Black servant or slave …19C US sl.
NOUNS, PERSON, OTHER
– BIRDER a slave-trader …1898 Aust. sl.
– BLACKBAITER any person in favour of Black slavery; a person with intolerant attitude toward Blacks …c1840 Amer. sl. obs.
– BLACKBIRD a White man who works in the slave trade …Bk1992 criminals’ sl.
– BLACKBIRD-CATCHER a slave trader …1869 sl.
– BLACKBIRDER a person engaged in press-ganging or kidnapping labourers in the south Pacific region for work on the sugar plantations; also, a slave trader …1876 sl., orig., nautical usage, chiefly Aust. and south Pacific
– CAFINFLERO an Argentine white slaver who doubles as a pimp …1920s sl.
– CAFISHIO an Argentine white slaver who doubles as a pimp …1920s sl.
– FIRE EATER a pro-slavery extremist in Congress before the war …US Civil War usage
– MAN-DEALER a slave-dealer …1860
– MANGO a slave-dealer …1601 obs. rare
– MAN-HUNTER a term of contempt for a cannibal, slave-dealer, brigand, or the like …1555
– MONEY CREATURE a person who will do anything for money; spec. a slave-dealer, a pimp …1605 obs. rare
– SAINT one of the party which promoted the agitation in England against slavery …1830 hist.
– WOOLLY-HEADS anti-slavery politicians …Bk1860 US
VERBS
– ABOLITIONIZE to imbue with the principles of abolitionism; to make a person or community opposed to slavery …1836 US rare
– BETHRALL to enthrall, to enslave …1596 obs. rare
– COME THE KINK to steal a Black slave from the country, and dispose of them in town …M19 US sl.
– MANCIPATE to make subject, to enslave …1574 obs.
– MANGONIZE to traffic in slaves …1601 obs.
– MANUMISE to release from slavery; to release from bondage or servitude; to set free …1523 obs.
– MANUMISS to release from slavery; to release from bondage or servitude; to set free …1523 obs.
– MANUMIT to release from slavery; to release from bondage or servitude; to set free …1432-50
– SCLAVE to slave, to drudge …1969 Sc.