SLAVE / SLAVERY. The skin of every human being contains a slave. - Notebook, 1904. The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.nd he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another.
Gentry (from Old French genterie, from gentil, high-born, noble) are well-born, genteel and well-bred people of high social class, especially in the past. Gentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estates (see manorialism), upper levels of the clergy, and gentle families of long descent who never obtained the official right to bear a coat of arms.
1 The landed gentry were a class of people who did not have to work for a living, but also did not have a proper, royally conferred title. ' 2 Landed gentry' was an ever-changing term, but it included classes of men considered knights, gentlemen and baronets. Burke's Landed Gentry attempted to document all the landed gentry of Great Britain. 2  The book was published from the 1830s until 1972. 3  The idealized view of the landed gentry still affects British society today.