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Slavery
Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are submissive to work under the domination of others.
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Industrial revolution
Political systems; Slavery
Rapid development of initially, British industry using machines in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It caused mass migrations from the countryside into the cities.
Indenture
Political systems; Slavery
A form of contracted servitude or apprenticeship for a fixed period of time, often seven years in return for free passage to a colony, with the promise of land or money at the end.
Inhumanity
Political systems; Slavery
The state of being brutal, cruel, barbarous, without feeling, indifferent to the suffering of others.
Indentured servant
Political systems; Slavery
A person who has sold their labour for a set period of time.
