What's the difference between bondage and slavery?
Bondage
Definition:
(a.) The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
(a.) Obligation; tie of duty.
(a.) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the 1860s, the fight between the North and the South was about slavery and the right of the Confederate states to maintain a dreaded institution that kept people of African descent in bondage.
(2) As scholar Thavolia Glymph writes in Out of the House of Bondage , her study of women and slavery in America, the insinuation has long been that planter women "suffered under the weight of the same patriarchal authority to which slaves were subjected".
(3) This study investigated the relationships between: asphyxiators' ages; two paraphilias commonly accompanying autoerotic asphyxia, bondage and transvestism; and various other types of simultaneous sexual behaviour.
(4) The increased lectin-binding to arthrotic articular cartilage may be due to unmasking of sugars in the course of bondage breakdown in fibrillated cartilage or the production of pathological glycoproteins.
(5) People move around the world with ever greater ease, not through capture and bondage but, at least initially, in search of security, prosperity and adventure.
(6) (Apparently, the Whitney bra (£110) and knickers (£95), whose multiple elastic straps can be arranged in various permutations from the vaguely bondage-influenced to the properly rude, is flying off the shelves.)
(7) Older asphyxiators were more likely to have been simultaneously engaged in bondage or transvestism, suggesting elaboration of the masturbatory ritual over time.
(8) The workers were exhausted and malnourished, and almost all were kept in a state of debt bondage, with most of their "wages" deducted for exorbitant room, board and other expenses.
(9) Music TV broadcasters are to receive a dressing down from the media regulator after an unedited version of Rihanna's S&M video, containing scenes of "sexual bondage, dominance and sadomasochism", aired during the morning when children could be watching.
(10) EL James may have been whipping up the repressed bondage fetishes of a receptive audience (in which 90% of Brits don’t view their actual sex life as “very adventurous”) but at the same time she was secretly appealing to a make-believe in which financial insecurity was suddenly a thing of the past – her writing shared that much with Jane Austen, at least.
(11) This means a lot of people going in drag [myself included unfortunately], others in what back then looked like bondage-type gear.
(12) Exploitation within this sector "bears a striking resemblance to that found in the GLA-enforced sectors: underpayment of wages, debt bondage, excessive hours, spurious deductions, dangerous and unsafe working conditions," he says.
(13) In May Ofcom issued a warning about scheduling and code compliance after an unedited version of Rihanna's S&M video, containing scenes of "sexual bondage, dominance and sadomasochism", aired during the morning when children could be watching .
(14) Bob Dowler suffered the humiliation of having to admit an interest in bondage sex after evidence that Milly had found a pornographic magazine, and he had to admit he had been considered a suspect.
(15) The authors describe their technique without bondage between needle and transducer and comment their results about 413 examinations.
(16) "There was bondage, beating and domination which seem to be typical of S&M behaviour.
(17) Drawing powerfully on her own family history – her great-great- grandfather lived as a slave – she spoke of “the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.
(18) The high reactivity of Tyr89 and its tight binding in the active center point to the presence of a hydrogen bondage with the substrate and suggest a role of a proton donor whose acceptor is the product of the enzymatic reaction, i.e., phosphate.
(19) Small parties enjoy a brief moment of choice, when they can flick the switch of power at their discretion, before returning into bondage.
(20) And what did Milly's father think of the fact that his young daughter had once found pornographic magazines belonging to him, and that further bondage magazines and paraphernalia were hidden in the loft?
Slavery
Definition:
(n.) The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.
(n.) A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.
(n.) The holding of slaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
(2) "Women who are forced to become prostitutes via trafficking are examples of modern-day slavery."
(3) I’ve never had a black person or a brown person ever say anything bad about me.” Then he proceeded to make fresh contentious comments, first by repeating the comparison between slavery and welfare dependence: “Receiving welfare and housing – is that a sense of slavery when you get caught up in that and can’t get out of it for generations?
(4) The transformation of the global slave trade from a high-cost, slow-recruitment business to a low-cost, rapid-recruitment one is driving criminal interest in trafficking and slavery, which is why it is permeating every corner of the global economy.
(5) This year, after a generation of terminal decline, it won an award for stylish restoration that saved the birthplace of the seventh earl of Shaftesbury , the great 19th-century reformer who took up Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish slavery, and saw it through to victory.
(6) The report, based on testimonies and interviews with North Korean refugees in Seoul, London, Japan and Washington, compiled chilling evidences of crimes against humanity including forced starvation, torture, slavery and sexual violence .
(7) This summer’s shocking revelations about slavery in the Thai fishing industry , which supplies prawns to UK supermarkets, demonstrate that voluntary systems are failing to identify and eradicate these practices.
(8) David Denby in the New Yorker called it "easily the greatest feature film ever made about American slavery".
(9) The much anticipated landslide for Steve McQueen's powerful slavery drama 12 Years A Slave did not materialise, although it gained a single and respectfully prominent win as best film (drama).
(10) Very odd.” When it came to working in the US, making 12 Years a Slave, McQueen was adamant that he wouldn’t let the same thing happen again, particularly not on a film about slavery, of all things.
(11) In the 1860s, the fight between the North and the South was about slavery and the right of the Confederate states to maintain a dreaded institution that kept people of African descent in bondage.
(12) Human trafficking and slavery, particularly when children are the victims, not only deny fundamental human rights but also testify to an utter failure of our religions, cultures and civilisations.
(13) The New Yorker pronounced it "easily the greatest feature film ever made about American slavery".
(14) The TIP report offers a good starting point for establishing which products could be linked to slavery and human rights abuses.
(15) There is resentment that other historical French crimes, including slavery, are not given the same emphasis on the curriculum.
(16) It is modern slavery enforced not through shackles and whips, but by fiddled contracts, missing permits and paperwork and the Guardian has found it happening just down the road from the desert palace of Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Khalifa al-Thani.
(17) Meanwhile the state is under pressure to do more against trafficking and sexual slavery.
(18) The NCA figures were published as the Home Office prepares to put its modern slavery bill to the Lords this year.
(19) However, human rights groups claim too little progress has been made on sweeping away the kafala system that bonds labourers to their employer and has been likened to modern slavery.
(20) By escaping slavery and helping many others do the same,” the writer Feminista Jones argued in the Washington Post , “Tubman became historic for essentially stealing ‘property’.