I use this definition for the word ‘slave’: ‘a person who is the legal property of another and is bound to absolute obedience, a human chattel.’
Other meanings can apply. This one conveys the core meaning in sentences like ‘Australia was not a “slave state” like the American Confederacy’.
Activists manipulate language, changing definitions as they go.
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