Liberty and Slavery

Liberty

Liberty noun - The power, right, or opportunity to choose.

Slavery is an antonym for liberty in freedom topic.

Nearby Words: libertarian, liber

Slavery

Slavery noun - The state of being a slave.
Usage example: a child born into slavery was considered simply another addition to the master's wealth and property

Liberty is an antonym for slavery in topics: enslavement, freedom.

Nearby Words: slave, slavish, slaver, slavered, slavering

How words are described

individual individual liberty individual slavery
human human liberty human slavery
full full liberty full slavery
little little liberty little slavery
Other adjectives: sexual, personal, ancient, political, unofficial, several, roman.

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / A Matter of Life and Death This seems to imply that Farlan thinks that America during the Revolution was a bastion of democracy and liberty when it was in fact an unequal Republic with limited suffrage and slavery.
  • Of course the South during The American Civil War were technically rebelling against the Union, so as to preserve their "liberty" to maintain and perpetuate slavery.
    Source: Rebel Leader
  • Asa, meanwhile, does not approve of slavery... but mostly because he can't stand the idea of people's liberty taken away from them, not out of morality.
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