[TheAmazon]

if you look at the definition of slave, not being paid at all is not a requirment, as long as a person has to work very hard for a master with out proper payment of such work is a slave...so

ie. share croppers and indentured servants= slave


in the historical sense a person who is legal property of another and is forced to obey them (indentured servitude)

and the word servitude comes from service..which comes from latin slavus.