Philosophical concept

Slavery

Slavery here names the institution that turns persons into property and legally organizes their coercion, labor, and transfer.

Works
170
Passages
21,337
Thinkers
35
Traditions
15

Understand uses of the concept

Slavery here names the institution that turns persons into property and legally organizes their coercion, labor, and transfer.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 21,337 passages across 170 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: esclavage, slavery, slave, enslaved

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 982 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 19,210 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  9. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  13. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  14. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  15. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  16. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  17. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  19. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  20. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  21. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  22. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  23. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  24. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  25. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  26. Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic OrationsDio Chrysostom · 0 passages
  27. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius · 0 passages
  28. The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  29. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  30. Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages