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Slave Labor

Definition

Slave labor refers to the practice of using enslaved individuals for various forms of work, such as agriculture, domestic service, or mining. Enslaved people are treated as property and forced to work without consent or fair compensation.

Analogy

Imagine a group project where one person does all the work while others take credit and relax. In this scenario, the person doing all the work is like a slave laborer who is forced to do tasks without any choice or reward.

Related terms

Chattel Slavery: Chattel slavery is a form of slavery where individuals are considered legal property that can be bought, sold, and inherited.

Plantation Economy: A plantation economy refers to an economic system based on large-scale agricultural estates producing crops such as sugar, tobacco, or cotton that heavily relied on slave labor.

Transatlantic Slave Trade: The transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation of millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas for forced labor.