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means A person legally treated as the property of another, forced to work without freedom or pay.

from Traces back to 'Slav' — in medieval Europe, Slavic peoples from Central and Eastern Europe were captured and sold in such numbers that their name became the Latin word 'sclavus,' meaning a captive or unfree laborer. The ethnic name curdled into a generic label for bondage itself, then spread into English and other European languages — a grim case of a people's identity being repurposed as a condition.