Definition of "slaveless" [slaveless]

• Without a slave or slaves. (adjective)

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• "When poor and slaveless and, naturally, when no longer young, they must work in the house and in the field, but this lot is not singular; in journeys they carry the load, yet it is rarely heavier than the weapons borne by the man."
• "The slaves can attend to that; and only the slaveless (the poorest of all) must take away their modest rations of boiled lentils, peas, beans, onions, and garlic, usually in baskets, though yonder now is a soldier who is bearing off a measure of boiled peas inside his helmet."
• "Critics say he overemphasized the size of the southern landholding middle class while excluding the large class of poor landless and slaveless white southerners."