Slavery is the state or condition of being a slave. It is the condition when a person is subjected entirely to the wishes, whims and will of some other person. A slave is a person who is under complete subjugation of another person. The holding of slaves is called slavery. In the words of Alexander Herzen, “All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.” Slaves do not have any freedom of thought, action or will. Slavery is a condition when one is completely under the control of another person and has to submit himself totally to that person. Slavery means no independence or freedom of movement, speech and expression. Plato had once remarked, “Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”
