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Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one.
1. A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control. 2. A drudge; one who labors or is obliged to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant. 3. One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something. 4. A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.
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