bondage

Examples of bondage in the following topics:

• Slavery

  • In more recent times slavery has been outlawed in most societies, but continues through the practices of debt bondage, indentured servitude, serfdom, domestic servants kept in captivity, certain adoptions in which children are forced to work as slaves, child soldiers, and forced marriage.
  • Most are debt slaves, largely in South Asia, who are under debt bondage incurred by lenders, sometimes even for generations.
  • Debt bondage or bonded labor occurs when a person pledges himself or herself against a loan.
  • Debt bondage can be passed on from generation to generation, with children required to pay off their parents' debt.

• Slave Labor

  • The highly developed and knowledgeable skills concerning rice planting possessed by slaves led to their successful ability to use these skills as a bargaining chip in determining the length and conditions of their bondage in the Americas.

• Black and White Abolitionism

  • Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), a former slave whose memoirs, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) and My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), became bestsellers which aided the cause of abolition.

• Slave Families

  • Since slave parents were primarily responsible for training their children, they could cushion the shock of bondage for them, help them to understand their situation, teach them values different from those their masters tried to instill in them, and give them a referent for self-esteem other than the master.”

• The Manor System

  • It was a condition of bondage which developed primarily during the Middle Ages in Europe.
  • Many of the negative components of manorialism, and feudalism in general, revolve around the bondage of the serf, his lack of social mobility and low position on the social hierarchy.

• Forming a Slave Community

  • Since slave parents were primarily responsible for training their children, they could cushion the shock of bondage for them, help them to understand their situation, teach them values different from those their masters tried to instill in them, and give them a referent for self-esteem other than the master. "

• Slavery and Politics

  • Most slave owners also believed that a domestic slave population was less dangerous than an imported one; captured Africans appeared more openly rebellious than African Americans who were born in American bondage and molded from birth in the Southern plantation slave system.

• Indentured Servants

  • Unlike slaves, servants could look forward to a release from bondage.

• Early American Slavery

  • This led to a race-based slavery system in the New World unlike any bondage system that had come before.

• Socialism

  • As a critic of socialism, he warned that placing the economy entirely in the state's bureaucratic control would result in an "iron cage of future bondage".