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'''Slavery''', in [[historical materialism]], was a [[mode of production]] characterized by the [[exploitation]] of a [[class]] of laborers (slaves) who are owned as the explicit [[property]] of the slave master and treated as [[commodities]]. Slavery emerged following the end of [[primitive communism]] and development of [[agricultural]] civilizations in the Fertile Crescent and elsewhere, making it one of the first instances of class society. Although slavery as the dominant mode of production ended and was replaced by [[feudalism]], the use of slave labor has continued in various forms into the present day.<ref>Friedrich Engels (1847). [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm ''Principles of Communism'', "In what way do proletarians differ from slaves?"]. Available on the Marxists Internet Archive.</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Wage slavery]]<br />
* [[Chattel slavery]]<br />
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