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Slavery is, in the strictest sense of the term, any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property. A slave is unable to withdraw unilaterally from such an arrangement and works without remuneration.
For slavery among Native Americans, see Slavery among Native Americans in the United States. For slavery in the colonial period, see Slavery in the colonial United States. For modern-day slavery, see Human trafficking in the United States.oth in Brazil and in the United Statesâthe countries with the two largest slave populations in the Western Hemisphereâthe end of slavery found the regions in which slaves had been concentrated poorer than other regions of these same countries.