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12-> ''"Kehmor is my name. I am the slavemaster of Lord Ruerl, and that is all you pitiful wretches need to know of me. Gone are the days when your lives were made complex by the choices that freedom allowed you. Your life will be simple now: obey me or die."''
13-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Dark Elves Army Book (6th Edition)''
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15The main character ends up a slave at some point in the story. It doesn't necessarily stick.
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17There is often a scene in which the character is sold in the SlaveMarket, showcasing all the evils of slavery; the protagonist will witness how families are torn apart, [[ShamefulStrip will have to undress]] [[ComeToGawk and be examined like an animal]], and will perhaps be beaten. ([[{{Fanservice}} Artists are particulary fond of the undress and be examined stage, for some reason]]. [[MostWritersAreMale Especially for young women]].) If he looks strong, he will be told that he will go to [[SlaveGalley the galleys]] or the mines -- a FateWorseThanDeath -- or perhaps to the GladiatorGames. If she (or occasionally [[{{Uke}} he]]) is attractive, she will be told that she will make a buyer [[SexSlave very happy indeed...]]
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19If they're lucky, slaves will be bought for a certain skill or craft they possess. If they're really lucky, they will be bought by someone who intends to set them free when no one is looking.[[note]]Or maybe when ''everyone'' is looking; for example, Islam classes freeing slaves as a virtuous act, without actually prohibiting slavery, so this might be a display of conspicuous virtue in an old-time Muslim society.[[/note]] If they're unlucky, they'll be bought by someone who works his slaves to death or by a lecher or end up as gladiators.
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21If the character is female, this trope will probably lead to GoGoEnslavement.
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23This is a common plot element in {{hentai}} and doujinshi, where the victims are usually either blackmailed, drugged, or brainwashed into becoming {{Sex Slave}}s to their tormentors. This usually results in [[DespairEventHorizon breaking the victims]] until they [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness resign themselves to their fate]] or they snap and [[HappinessInSlavery learn to love it]].
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25The BackStory of many if not most slave major characters; very few are BornIntoSlavery, and most have a SecretLegacy of BlueBlood or RoyalBlood. When a sorcerer or a supernatural entity forces the protagonist into servitude, the trope overlaps with MuggleInMageCustody.
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27Because WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture, this can occur even in futuristic scenarios. When it's done to an entire race, see SlaveRace. They may be used as SlaveMooks or {{Sympathetic Sentient Weapon}}s or be the target of SuperHumanTrafficking as well. Can lead to GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath or even IDieFree ''or'' HappinessInSlavery. IndenturedServitude is a specific form. When done as a form of punishment for wrongdoing, see PrisonersWork and WorkingOnTheChainGang.
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35* ''Manga/PlusAnima'': All four main characters are made into slaves when they go to Sailand. Senri is the only one sold at a slave market though.
36* ''Literature/AiNoKusabi'' revolves around how BadassBiker Riki was forcibly [[MadeASlave Made A Sex Slave]] as a "Pet" through BreakTheHaughty and the effects it has on him, his master and his ex-lover.
37* ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride'': Chise is enslaved in the first episode. In a twist, she sold ''herself'' entirely willingly, as a last, desperate attempt to find anyone who valued her in any way. She is purchased by Elias, the titular ancient magus, who wanted an apprentice. He treats her much more like an apprentice than an actual slave, though, and his "ownership" of her doesn't appear binding in any way.
38* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
39** Even in humanity's darkest hours, there are still some people making profit from [[HumansAreBastards selling others to the capital's underworld.]] Specifically this would have been the fate of Mikasa and her mother (if she wasn't killed) if not for Eren rescuing her and putting them down like the dogs they were.
40** [[spoiler: The Eldians living in Marley are confined to internment camps, kept under strict watch and denied any sort of freedom or rights. This captive population is maintained because the backbone of the nation's military is the Titans, and each Eldian is a potential weapon]].
41%%* ''Manga/{{Basara}}'': Ageha. Shuri also has a slave tattoo.
42%%* ''Manga/BlackButler'': This happens to Ciel and, in the anime's second season, Alois.
43* Vegeta's backstory in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', he was born the prince of the [[ProudWarriorRace Saiyans]] destined to one day become their king, until he was handed over to the EvilOverlord, Frieza. Frieza would then kill all the other Saiyans, basically striping Vegeta of his rank, while also treating the Saiyan prince as little more than a slave for years.
44* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Pretty much everyone involved with the Tower of Heaven. In the backstory, a Zeref-worshiping cult kidnapped men, women, and children to serve as slave labor so they could build the Tower of Heaven and resurrect their master via the R-System. Among the children enslaved were Erza Scarlet and Jellal Fernandes with their friends Simon, Wally, Sho and Millianna. The wizard Rob, a member of Fairy Tail was also imprisoned there. The slaves were brutalized with Erza getting her right eye gouged out as punishment. Erza and her friends would rally a slave uprising to save Jellal who had been captured and tortured after a failed escape attempt. In the process, Rob was killed defending Erza and Jellal went evil [[spoiler:after Ultear brainwashed him]] and killed the cult members, taking control of the Tower himself. Although [[TheDogBitesBack Erza]] [[RoaringRampageofRevenge kills]] all the slavers to avenge Rob, He forced her to abandon her friends and throws her far away to the mainland where she would join Fairy Tail. Jellal would manipulate the former slaves to continue building the tower, claiming that Erza betrayed them, and handed over the children Erik, Richard, Macbeth, Sawyer, and Sorano to Brain, who used them to form the dark guild Oracion Seis.
45* ''Literature/KinosJourney'': This almost happens to Kino when she [[spoiler:helps a group of slavers from a life-threatening situation without knowing their true vocation, and they respond by trying to enslave her even as they spout praises for her kindness]].
46* ''Anime/LupinIIIIslandOfAssassins'':
47** [[BrokenBird Ellen]] and her brother were sold into slavery as children, by their own father, who was an alcoholic. Which is how they were eventually conscripted by [[MurderInc the Tarantulas]] and forced to become assassins.
48** Bomber and the other defectors were in the same boat, since the toxin contained in their tarantula tattoos made it so they couldn't leave the island. The only thing preventing it from killing them, was the island's natural gases and the only known antidote was in Gordeau's possession; leaving them no choice but to obey him.
49* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' has this as a common enough practice in the poor Mars sphere that there is a name for it: Human Debris. We also get to see precisely what this entails. One of the leads, Akihiro, was kidnapped by pirates as a child, [[ChildSoldiers sold to the CGS]], and forced into a risky procedure meant to improve combat reflexes. This has made him bitter and nihilistic. We later find out that something similar happened to his brother. [[spoiler:One of the first things Kudelia does at the end of the series after becoming Chairwoman of Mars is abolish the Human Debris system.]]
50%%''Anime/MonsterRancher'': Pixie does this to those who cross her.
51* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
52** Ako, Natsumi, and Akira sell themselves into slavery shortly after their arrival in the magic world to pay for a very ill Ako's expensive medicine. Tosaka abuses them on occasion, but their actual owner (a literal MamaBear who's in charge of a tavern) beats the crap out of him for it. Even then, Tosaka only looks down on them because he was once a slave himself (and so was Mama, who knows him from these days). [[spoiler: Negi eventually manages to buy their freedom, and that fires Tosaka's envy since it took him ''twenty'' years to buy his own freedom.]]
53** Later chapters reveal that [[spoiler:the reason Jack Rakan is so crazy powerful is because he spent pretty much his whole life fighting as a gladiatorial slave, before winning his freedom and starting to fight in wars.]]
54* ''Manga/OkaneGaNai'': Ayase gets sold by an unscrupulous cousin to pay that cousin's Yakuza debts.
55* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Several characters on separate occasions. Among them we have [[spoiler: Nami, Fisher Tiger and other Fishmen, the Gorgon sisters Hancock, Sandersonia and Marigold, Robin (When she was sent to Tequila Wolf), and even Silvers Rayleigh (Though in his case, it was on purpose so he could steal money from whoever was stupid enough to buy him).]]
56* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': Technically slavery is illegal under the OneNationUnderCopyright government, but IndenturedServitude from debt is not and virtually indistinguishable. Hunters like Shirakabe go to HumanTraffickers to hire indebted hunters as CannonFodder. Being terrified of this fate is what drives Guyver into turning traitor and trying to ambush his own team and Akira. Once, some hunters raid Sheryl's base and after being captured, one hunter says he'd rather die, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor so Akira shoots him dead]]. ArmsDealer Katsuragi takes on Revin's debt to Akira and keeps increasing it in a MovingTheGoalposts manner, once attempting to enslave Akira by taking advantage of him being TooDesperateToBePicky buying arms, but Akira had the money. Viola and Carol work as a team to profit off of this trade: Carol gets hunters addicted to her TheOldestProfession work, raises her prices until they can't pay, then Viola takes on their debt and sells the hunter. Also, crossing the government makes one a BoxedCrook with ExplosiveLeash, which happens to Nelia.
57* In ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'', this happens to Raphtalia, twice. The first time is during her backstory when she is captured and sold to a slave trader. Fortunately, she finds an owner who treats her like a daughter, curing her illness, giving her chances to rest when she needs it and making sure she had plenty of food. Because of this, the second instance occurs when she is "freed" and promptly decides to go back to being enslaved as she preferred belonging to Naofumi to her alternative options.
58** Later in the series, [[spoiler: [[CompulsiveLiar Myne]] is temporarily made into a slave before a trial as the slave crest makes it very obvious to every witness when she is lying.]]
59* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'':
60** Shinta is enslaved after his family and most of his village succumb to [[ThePlague a cholera outbreak]]. Then the caravan was attacked by bandits and everyone but Shinta is slaughtered. ''Then'' Seijuuro Hiko steps into the scene, kills the bandits, and a short while later adopts Shinta as his pupil.
61** In the ''To Rule Flame'' prequel, centered on Yumi and the Juppongatana, [[spoiler: two little girls that Yumi took care of in the RedLightDistrict are captured by a paramilitary group that plans on selling them as slaves to foreign crews, who have "taken a fancy to Japanese things", like the two "porcelain dolls". Yumi foils this by [[PleaseIWillDoAnything pretty much selling her life to Shishio]], who accepts to wipe out the group and send the little girls to safety in exchange.]]
62* ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'': Kazuki ended up as a member of the vicious pirate group known as the Claws of the Sea when he was a child, and they sold him to some nobles who liked his PrettyBoy looks as "decoration". The reason he [[spoiler:kindapped Shirayuki]] was because he thought she was being kept by nobles the same way and he didn't bother to talk to her before drugging her and "rescuing" her.
63* ''Manga/TorikagoGakyuu'': An interesting variant occurs when, after Mikage[[spoiler:'s SplitPersonality]] [[IDieFree refuses]] to become [[spoiler:[[EvilTwin Yuikai]]'s]] slave, [[spoiler:Yuikai]] ''himself'' offers to be ''Mikage's'' slave instead. In the chapters after this arc, he [[HappinessInSlavery appears to like]] [[IfItsYouItsOkay this arrangement]] [[HoYay just as well]].
64* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'':
65** Leon's first obstacle is his WickedStepMother Zola using an ArrangedMarriage to set him up for an UriahGambit for widow pensions, and when Leon leaves to adventure, Zola plans on selling his little brother Colin to be a domestic slave in his place if he doesn't come back. All part of a misandrist [[TheConspiracy conspiracy]] called the Forest of Ladies that does all this en masse.
66** Subverted with "Exclusive Servants" who Leon calls slaves… they're regulated and protected voluntary servants, thugs, or gigolos, who are definitely treated better than poor boys like Leon (who have to carry luggage in place of the servants).
67** When Leon captures a number of SkyPirates alive, he sells them as slaves to a viscount who just struck riches to work in the new mines.
68* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'': An extant threat on Gunsmoke; never really applied to any of the main characters even as a possibility, although it's manga [[TheDragon Legato's]] backstory...although apparently since he was young enough that he didn't even ''have'' a name until after [[VillainousRescue Knives accidentally rescued him]], and then chose to spare him and let him tag along. And then there was WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. Although it's not the mainline slave trade, Wolfwood got adopted under false pretenses and then StrappedToAnOperatingTable; that they then armed him and sent him out as a [[ProfessionalKiller professional hitman]] was kind of their bad judgment, except he never actually did turn on the Eye -- just his 'master,' and then only to get a shot at the OmnicidalManiac they had a contract to.
69%%* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': While it's brief and the wording isn't exact, it's fairly obvious that this is what Beatrice does to Battler.
70* ''Literature/TheVillainousDaughtersButlerIllCrushTheDestructionFlags'': It's noted to be common for parents [[WrongSideOfTheTracks in the slums]] to sell their children into slavery to escape debt, as Emma gets sold presumably to be a SexSlave and runs away with her brother Roy before the protagonists rescue and [[RecruitedFromTheGutter train them as bodyguards.]] The two's parents were portrayed as people between a rock and a hard place who do care, and their owner Cyril buys them from, Nameless, will only agree to the deal if he hears what they'll be used for.
71* ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' has this happen to multiple characters. As it is set in the Viking Age, thralldom is common and viewed as simply a fact of life, and several of the current main characters [[spoiler:amongst them [[TheHero Thorfinn]]]] are former thralls.
72* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': In the backstory of the Dawn of the Duel arc, Priest Seto rescues Kisara from this fate at the hands of the brigands who destroyed his village and killed his parents. She repays him by unconsciously releasing her dragon spirit, which would eventually become his own ''ka'' and the spirit of Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
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76* Many {{painters}} depicted those {{Slave Market}}s, usually in Orientalist scenes or ones from ancient Greek or Rome. Website/TheOtherWiki has a number [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Slave_trade_in_art here]]. Also the full ''[[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leighton_Captive_Andromache.jpg Captive Andromache]]''
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80* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': PlayedForLaughs in "Recap/AsterixAndTheLaurelWreath"; Asterix and Obelix need to infiltrate Roman society, so they ''apply'' to be slaves, much to the bewilderment of the slavemaster. Not that his other slaves took their roles seriously either. The British slave refused to let him sell off the protagonists until they had haggled for a decent price. (The slavemaster was ready to give the duo away for free, since they were causing trouble and beating up other slaves.)
81* ''ComicBook/{{Barracuda}}'': Maria, Emilio (who is [[DisguisedInDrag disguised as a girl]] at the time) and Maria's mother Dona Emilia are captured by Blackdog and sold to slave dealer Ferrango who sells them on. Emilio is brought by Mr. Flynn, Dona Emilia by monks, and Ferrango keeps Maria as his personal property.
82* ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'': Zula was forced into slavery until he slew his former master.
83* ''ComicBook/ConquerorOfTheBarrenEarth'': Zhengla captures Jinal and makes her his [[GoGoEnslavement slave]] temporarily. Then they became lovers and join forces to conquer the world together.
84* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': In ''ComicBook/GreenLanternEarthOne'', Hal Jordan, after his ring loses its power, is captured by the Manhunters and forced to work as a slave miner alongside many other aliens. They fail to take the ring from him and once it recharges, Hal leads to a lot of problems for them.
85* ''ComicBook/JonahHex'': Jonah's father sold him into slavery with an Apache tribe at the age of 13, in 1851.
86* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': In the story "Dead Zone", Yodie and his girlfriend Belle are captured by a slave ring that forces people to mine the mass grave of Chaos Day victims to [[RobbingTheDead loot the corpses]].
87* ''ComicBook/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In "Slaves of the Republic", Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano and Clone Commander Rex. Anakin and Ahsoka sneak into Zygerria as master and slave, but then get caught for real. Anakin ends up a servant of the queen, and Ahsoka is taken to a place where a group of kidnapped Togrutans are waiting to be sold. Obi-wan and Rex get captured and sold to work in the mines. Naturally, everyone escapes in the end. It was adapted into a three episode arc of the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' animated series.
88* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': The series ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles'', which explores the history of Krypton and the House of El, tells how Sul-El and his son Hatu-El were freemen until the Vrangs conquered Krypton and enslaved its inhabitants. Sul remained a slave until his death, but his son Hatu led a slave revolt that liberated Krypton.
89* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': Part of ComicBook/{{Starfire}}'s backstory. Her evil sister betrayed their planet, Tamaran, and helped hostile aliens conquer it, and as part of the terms of their defeat, the Tamaranians were required to surrender Starfire, their princess, into slavery.
90* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'': In ''Thundercats -- The Return'', Lion-O enters a magical book to train and emerges ten years later to discover that the other Thundercats have been enslaved by Mumm-Ra and the mutants. Most of them have been put to work in mines, but Wilykit and Wilykat are Mumm-Ra's personal slaves, and he actually refers to Wilykit as his [[{{Squick}} "concubine"]].
91* ''ComicBook/TraggAndTheSkyGods'': The majority of Tragg's tribe is enslaved by the Yargonians and forced to toil in the mines for them. Freeing them becomes one of Tragg's priorities.
92* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
93** ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': Zara turned to a life of crime and homicidal misandry after her own father sold her into slavery.
94** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'':
95*** It turns out (after Hypnota had been imprisoned and slavery outlawed on Saturn) that on the side Hypnota had been using her powers to brainwash people into being obedient slaves and then selling them to Saturnian slavers like Eviless, who are furious at the loss of revenue caused by their trade being made illegal.
96*** Uvo has made every woman in his empire, and every one he captures in combat, into a slave.
97** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Natasha and Diana are made into slaves by the Sangtee Empire, and go on to escape and start a rebellion that forces the empire to abolish their practice of enslaving all (non-kreel) women. Some of their fellow revolutionaries/pirates were also captured and made slaves by the empire before Diana's revolt, but others were born into slavery.
98* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
99** ComicBook/{{Gambit|MarvelComics}} had the misfortune of being a child slave twice. The first time, he was stolen from the hospital as a baby by the Thieves Guild and given to a child slave trafficker and sorceror known as The Antiquary. The second time, the Thieves Guild's benefactress Candra caught him and his cousin sneaking into her home and sold him to a disgusting, monstrous creature known as The Pig, who sold children to Hydra as soldiers. It was in escaping The Pig that Gambit learned to use playing cards as weapons.
100** Several mutants were subjected to this by [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the government of Genosia]] by transforming them into [[SlaveRace Mutates]], striping them of their [[YouAreNumberSix identity's]]. Many mutant heroes including ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/{{Rogue}}, and their ally Madelyne Pryor, ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}}, [[ComicBook/NewMutants Meltdown, Rictor, Wolfsbane and Boom Boom]] were kidnapped by them for this purpose, with Storm & Wolfsbane being the only ones to be transformed into Mutates, the resulting rescue mission toppling the original government, which as it turned out, was allied with anti-mutant hate group leader [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Cameron Hodge]]. Genosha was eventually destroyed shortly after the destruction of the Legacy Virus, and is now an uninhabited wasteland; it is doubtful the threat will arise again.
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104* ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'': Flash and other political prisoners are enslaved at the atomic furnace in the city of the hawkmen.
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108* In ''Literature/FairBrow'': The protagonist buys an enslaved woman; later, he and an old man are enslaved.
109* In the German folk tale ''[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type1362.html The Ice Child]]'', a woman claimed to have been impregnated by ice while thinking of her absent husband. He raised the child for some years, took him on a journey, and sold him as a slave -- claiming to his wife that the boy had melted.
110* In the Italian fairy tale "Literature/TheSlaveMother", collected in Italo Calvino's ''Italian Folktales'', a peasant woman is asked by an owl whether she would rather be happy in youth or age; after she chooses age, she is carried off by pirates. Her husband and sons find, somewhat later, a treasure and move to the city; one day they buy a slave -- at the husband's insistence, an old woman who can manage their household. In due course they figure out that she's their mother.
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115!!''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia''
116* ''Fanfic/TheFledglingYear'': [[spoiler:Cor]] was kidnapped by slavers and spent several chapters MIA as a result until Aravis and Hana rescued him. The brutality of his experience is especially poignant not just because [[spoiler:he's his country's crown prince]], but also because [[spoiler:he was raised as a slave by an abusive adoptive father, who actually tried to sell him to someone else, until he ran away. Getting dragged back into that life would be a FateWorseThanDeath for him more so than for any other character in the fic.]]
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118!!Crossovers
119* ''Fanfic/AhsokaTanoAndScorpiosRiddle'': The first titular character is captured and tortured by the second titular character into embracing her submissive side and pledging herself to him as his personal SexSlave.
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121!!''Franchise/DoctorWho''
122* ''Fanfic/GameOfDoctors'': In chapter 16, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9868669/15/Game-of-Doctors Gem Market]], this almost happens to the 11th Doctor's companion Norine on the planet Sapphire, when she is kidnapped by the Quelta. This is apparently a common occurrence in the Gem Market. 11 rescues her and many other slaves.
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124!!''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
125* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Sarah's backstory involves her village being raided and enslaved by the Genasi.
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127!!''Franchise/{{Firefly}}''
128''Firefly'' writers like this. Besides the multiple examples of Kaylee, Inara and River being captured, Jayne and the guys sometimes get it too.
129* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/96304 Salvage Mission]]'': Mal buys back an enslaved and mentally broken Jayne. Jayne is so mentally broken that he expected to be ordered around by Mal and has to be told he’s free. Being tortured by the Alliance and made a BreedingSlave after being bought haven’t helped at all.
130* ''[[https://fanfiction.net/s/3790963/1/You-Can-t-Take-The-Sky-From-Me You Can’t Take The Sky From Me]]'' has the crew discover slaves in the crates they were paid to haul. They wonder how Jayne knew and accuse him of running with slavers, lashing out at him. River reveals that he was traded, not a trader. He and his mother were sold as slaves and he found an overseer raping her and stabbed him to death before escaping.
131* ''[[https://fanfiction.net/s/5502176/1 Freedom To The Free]]'': Not a Jayne one but Wash, River, Kaylee and Simon. Poor Simon is hit the worst because he keeps submitting to protect the others. He ends up used for sex by one of the overseers after he’s told Kaylee and River will be raped,and rages over breaking his oath when ordered to castrate a man or Wash, who’s already been beaten in an escape attempt, will get the same treatment without anesthesia. Simon is not one to hold his tongue and he’s punished with a mask that essentially gags him. Fortunately a mad overseer gives Mal the location and BigDamnHeroes rescue ensues.
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133!!''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon''
134* ''Fanfic/LostBoy'': Hiccup was sold by his village as a tiff for peace against an invading tribe after his aunt and uncle die, where he is passed from village to village before he wound up in the whorehouse Stoick found him in.
135* ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'': Eret was already enslaved once, when he and his brothers were taken as thralls to Iceland. Then they gained their freedom, only to be re-enslaved by [[spoiler:Mildew]] and forced to hunt dragons for him (with him claiming that they can earn their freedom, while actually planning to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill them once he has no further use for them]]).
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137!!''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''
138* ''Fanfic/BecomingATrueInvader'':
139** PlayedForLaughs as Gaz essentially makes Zim her slave in exchange for not beating him up over accidentally destroying her Game Slave. Things get [[BelligerentSexualTension a little more complicated]] later on, though.
140** [[MadScientist Crax]] does this to this to all the other Vortians who survived [[BigBad the Employer's]] destruction of their planet by means of [[ExplosiveLeash explosive collars]].
141* ''Fanfic/ZimTheWarlordIrkenReversion'': PlayedForLaughs, as Zim cheerfully intends to make Gaz his slave (or as he alternately says, his "trophy" or "pet") once he conquers Earth. [[BigBrotherInstinct Dib]] is horrified by this, but Gaz herself shrugs it off, not taking Zim seriously enough to feel threatened by the prospect.
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143!!''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''
144* ''Fanfic/RonmanTheBarbarian'': This is the fate of Ronman and Ruthless after being on the losing side of the Battle of Go City. They free themselves soon enough. This happened to Wadelin, too, in the backstory.
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146!!''Franchise/MarvelUniverse''
147The fandom has enough slave fics to make their own subgenres, most notably "Loki becomes the slave of one (or more) of the Avengers", generally as punishment for his crimes during their titular movie, and "Loki becomes slave to Thor" (or vice versa) in various [=AUs=] that take place entirely on Asgard and/or Jotunheim. Though there are a smattering of "one (or more) of the Avengers becomes slave to Loki" as well.
148* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/635514/chapters/1150585 Poetic Justice]]'' (Limmet, 2013) is one of the genre codifiers, where Loki accepts slavery as the alternative to execution, but also expects his master (Tony Stark) to beat him up and likely turn him into a bed slave. When Tony gets the anger out of his system and gives Loki light housework instead, Loki gets increasingly troubled by his expectations, but it takes a long time before Tony figures out what exactly is getting under Loki's skin.
149* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13752294 As You Wish]]'' (orphaned by an anonymous author) has Loki enslaved (by oath) to all the Avengers at once, but (unlike most such fics) he's still got his magic and relative freedom within that confine. But with the Avengers not well understanding how the oath works, and Loki refusing to "beg" (read: actually discuss the problems with them), he ends up laboring under a variety of restrictions such as "don't use the furniture," "don't use hot water," and "don't eat good food." The scenes where the Avengers come to grips with their own insensitivity are great, but the real knife to the gut is when Loki learns that [[spoiler:the Avengers set up a room entirely for him, kitted out with a nice bed, a TV, and a ton of bespoke clothing (while he's been making due with one set of clothes and sleeping in the utility room)]], and realizes that they're not as bad as they seem -- that he's been making a lot of his own misery.
150* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/1669952/chapters/3545090 Screaming Mute and Seeing Blind]]'' (Nonymos, 2014) is a rare example of Loki being enslaved to ''Clint Barton'', as well as one of the more brutal takes on the idea: If he fails to obey, or gets too far from his master, the rune on his cheek will start burning him until he's in compliance again (or dead, over the course of ''hours''). That's just ''one'' of the inhuman punishments that Odin created for him.
151* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15381480/chapters/35695683 Butterfly]]'' ([=EndlessStairway=] , 2018) is an example of Loki as both slave (to Tony) and parent, trying to protect his child. Several slave Loki fics include a child, making use of the Intersex Loki idea (somewhat borrowed from mythology).
152* [=EndlessStairway=]'s ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12188148/chapters/27671058 Tony's Thrall]]'' and kuzibah's ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16240430/chapters/37966859 The Thrall Prince]]'' are examples of slave Loki with a thrall collar that forces him to follow commands. Marzipanda's ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15855117 Things Left Buried]]'' uses the same collar, but eschews the typical sentence of slavery in favor of Loki stumbling across a trapped artifact and having to turn himself over to the Avengers to meet the criteria of the collar until they can find a way to remove it. In many such fics, the collar prevents Loki from communicating in certain ways, making the whole problem harder to solve.
153* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/5333156 Prima Nocta]]'' (Dira Sudis, series: ''All These Burning Hearts in Hell''), as an example of a Marvel slave fic that doesn't involve Loki, fits in a Slavery AU where Tony Stark uses his resources to run a secret underground railroad to free slaves (while developing the reputation of being such a hard master that his slaves frequently die or disappear), and he happens across Steve Rogers (enslaved back when slavery was even worse) and Bucky Barnes (trained to be the perfect bed slave) at the same time, neither knowing that the other is in Tony's care. An intriguing exploration of how to deprogram someone that thoroughly traumatized, as well as some of the slavery-is-normal culture clashes (e.g. most slaves go on a protest strike during Independence Day).
154
155!!''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''
156* ''[[http://kleinerkiller.deviantart.com/gallery/41037509 Yognapped]]'': In the second installment, [[spoiler: Peva]] enslaves the surviving Yogscasters and forces them to work in his mines until they break bedrock, a seemingly impossible task. They accomplish it after nearly a month of work, [[spoiler: resulting in Peva and the Ironstorm Remnants getting absolutely annihilated by the freed Herobrine. Peva survives, suffering a VillainousBreakdown after the incident.]]
157
158!!''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
159* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'':
160** In the last chapter of the sequel ''Diplomat at Large'', this is effectively what happened to Trixie when she was crowned Queen of Dimondia, the crown preventing her from leaving. Twilight is not amused when she finds out and arranges to free her and appoint Jim, the Diamond Dogs' royal chancellor, as King (with a non-enchanted crown) in her place.
161** As revealed in chapter 6 of the second sequel, ''Diplomacy Through Schooling'', this is what happened to Neighsay and other ponies captured by the one who drained their magic, being forced to mine for them so the slavers can make the tools they intend to use to overthrow the Equestrian government.
162* ''Fanfic/EquestriaAcrossTheMultiverse'':
163** A group of slavers tries to enslave the main characters in the Under the Red Sun arc. They end up soundly defeated, and the last slaver that they keep around as a (semi-forced) guide calls Twilight "Mistress", implying she thinks this will be ''her'' fate.
164** For his war crimes under the invading Flim-Flam Brothers, Commander Wind Rider is handed over to the Hegemony for forced labor, loading starship munitions by hoof.
165* ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'': [[BigBad Prince Jewelius]] usurps Equestria's throne and sentences Twilight's friends and brother to slavery as punishment for their "treason" of inadvertently letting [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 the Changeling invasion]] take place. Applejack and Pinkie Pie become [[SlaveGalley galley slaves]], Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are forced to [[GladiatorGames fight as gladiators]] for the dragons' entertainment, and Rarity is sent to work in the Diamond Dogs' mines ([[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E19ADogAndPonyShow again]]) along with Shining Armor. They're all rescued a week later by the three deposed princesses and Spike.
166* ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': In ''Picking Up the Pieces'', when Wind Breaker reads his Hatchery file, it's revealed that [[spoiler: while many of the Hatchery griffons were essentially BornIntoSlavery (due to their eggs being sold by their parents, previous Hatchery griffons who did so in order to reduce their debt), Wind Breaker is among the many who were kidnapped from free griffons as infants or eggs and essentially sold to the Hatcheries. Discord later reveals that his mother had actually ''escaped'' the Hatchery system, but her egg was stolen by money-grubbing griffons -- race traitors, as Discord calls them -- who sent it back to Equestria.]]
167
168!!'WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated''
169* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/7257550/chapters/16478446 Royal Pains]]'' features this trope as Arthur's backstory; he literally can't remember being anything but a slave. And a SexSlave to boot.
170
171!!''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler''
172* ''Fanfic/EightIntertwined'': More detail is given regarding how Primrose and Yusufa are slaves within Sunshade. Due to how Helgenish manages things, his hidden assassins have the run of the place, and ''anyone'' under Helgenish's employ that acts out of line is either beaten to incapacitation or death and left outside to act as a message regarding what happens to people who upset the 'master.' Even if the people working for Helgenish are still tempted to leave, the Sunlands desert and the monsters surrounding the city act as a good motivator to stay under Helgenish's thumb.
173
174!!''Series/OnceUponATime''
175* ''Fanfic/MrAndMrsGold'': Subverted. The Dark One is capable of giving others [[TheWorseningCurseMark their mark]], making them their {{Familiar}} and their slave. This process not only imbues them with a small amount of their power, but it gives them the ability to know when their master requires them. Rumpelstiltskin does this to Belle at their wedding not to enslave her, but to make sure that he could keep an eye on her and come when she needs him (and vice-versa).%%Played straight with the Huntsman and Regina.
176
177!!''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite''
178* ''Fanfic/LostStormsStormysForgottenPast'' starts with Stormy being kidnapped by traffickers and sold to Murky. She eventually meets Rainbow Brite and escapes Murky.
179
180!!''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
181* ''Fanfic/AnEmpireOfIceAndFire'': Under Littlefinger's influence, [[TheCaligula Joffrey]] enslaves thousands of people, both native to Westeros and transported from Essos, and puts them to work building a giant pyramid as a monument to himself.
182
183!!''Franchise/StarWars''
184* ''Fanfic/CrownOfSlaves'':
185** Vestara, the main character, is a human from the real world that dies and wakes up a slave and experiment in the Sith Empire.
186** In Chapter Six, Asmu-Nikal's brother Tudhaliya gets himself [[spoiler:killed]] and a group of his friends mentally broken and enslaved by [[spoiler:Lord Kallig]] when they break into the Dark Temple.
187** Zash attempts to purchase Vestara from Asmu-Nikal, which precipitates Vestara having to reveal the truth to Nicky and Kela.
188
189!!''Series/{{Supernatural}}''
190* ''Fanfic/MaybeSproutWings'' reimagines [[BrokenBird Dean's]] suffering in Hell as suffering earthly slavery, and a human Castiel purchases him with the intent of freeing him.
191[[/folder]]
192
193[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
194* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'':
195** Once the Storm King's army conquers Equestria, the ponies are chained up and forced to work for the victorious forces.
196** Klugetown has a market where BeastMan characters capture and sell slightly less anthropomorphic, but still sapient creatures. When the Klugetown citizens spot the ShoulderSizedDragon Spike in the ponies' company, they start bidding on him.
197* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': The Stabbington brothers threaten Rapunzel with this.
198[[/folder]]
199
200[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
201* ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'': The premise. Solomon Northup is a freeborn black man of New York, until he is drugged, kidnapped, and sold at auction as a Georgia runaway slave called Platt. He spends the next twelve years on three separate plantations, always seeking a path to return to his family.
202* ''Film/AgainstAllFlags'': Roc Brasiliano has the handmaidens he captured auctioned off as wives for the pirates of Diego Suarez.
203* ''Film/{{Amistad}}'': {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. Although John Quincy Adams [[spoiler: successfully argues in a court of law that the Africans aboard the [[TitleDrop titular ship]] acted in self-defense and deserve to be set free instead of being sold off as salvaged cargo, the epilogue states that Cinque's family was likely captured by another raiding party and sold into the new world.]]
204* ''Film/AnneOfTheIndies'': Anne attempts to sell Molly into slavery, and Molly is forced to endure a degrading slave market scene. However, Pierre's intervention forces Anne to abandon her plans, and she flees with Molly still her captive.
205* ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'': Ash, which was a pretty significant {{Retcon}} from the end of ''Film/EvilDead2'', which ended with him being hailed as a hero. A subversion, as he isn't really a slave, just a battlefield captive whom the medieval screwheads have yoked and shackled for the hike back to the castle. In his mind, chains + whips = slavery.
206%%* ''Literature/BenHur'': Judah in book and film.
207* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': Although never explicitly acknowledged as such, the Winter Soldier ([[spoiler: Bucky Barnes]]) was turned into what for all practical purposes is a brainwashed and heavily conditioned slave.
208* ''Film/CaptainBlood'': Peter Blood; he's examined by Colonel Bishop, eventually bought by Bishop's niece (narrowly escaping the evil Dixon?s mines), and is employed by the Governor of Jamaica as a doctor.
209* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'': Conan was taken as a kid after Thulsa Doom [[DoomedHometown doomed his village]], was made to work on the WheelOfPain, and then was made a gladiator, all of which contributed to making him a supreme badass by the time he was freed by his master.
210* ''Film/CutthroatIsland'': Doctor Edward Shaw was a teacher and medical doctor before being sentenced to slavery for "theft and moral turpitude" (it's implied that he seduced a nobleman's teenaged daughter) prior to the beginning of the movie's plot. By the end of the movie, he's free again, having become a member of a pirate band.
211* ''Film/DonJuanDemarco'': The title character relates a yarn about being captured by slave dealers and sold into the 'service' of a lusty Sultana. Not that he seems to have minded much. It probably helped that the Sultana kept him hidden in her husband's large harem (apparently she didn't object to sharing.) This incident also occurs in Lord Byron's epic poem ''Literature/DonJuan'', upon which the movie is partially based.
212* ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'': Maximus was found by slave merchants at his burned down estate after he arrived too late to prevent Commodus' Praetorians from killing his wife and child. He gets sold to Proximo, the gladiator trainer, and thus becomes a gladiator.
213* ''Film/DraculaUntold'': Vlad in his youth was given as tribute along with 999 other Transylvanian boys to be trained as members of the Ottoman [[EliteMooks Janissary]] [[PraetorianGuard corps]]. The Ottomans try to do the same again when Vlad is ruler, but he defies them.
214* ''Film/TheIcePirates'': Political prisoners and others are sold into slavery after being "redesigned" [[spoiler: lobotomized and neutered, however, females remain "fully functional."]] They don't "redesign" clergy (shown by a captive monk) "just in case." Unfortunately for the monk shown, [[spoiler: a much larger prisoner beats him up, changes clothes with him and escapes.]]
215* ''Film/TheIsland1980'': After Maynard kills a pirate in self-defence, a KangarooCourt of pirates sentences him to be the slave of Beth, the dead pirate's widow.
216* ''Film/KaamelottPremierVolet'': It turns out that Myth/KingArthur was enslaved sometime after the end of Season 6 of the [[Series/{{Kaamelott}} series]] during the ten-year hiatus until the events of the film. Oddly, he doesn't seem to have minded, only escaping after people come looking for the rightful king of Britain, and the slave driver doesn't even send anyone after him, telling Quarto the slave merchant that if he wants to free a slave it's his right to do so.
217* ''Film/MortalEngines'': Hester and Tom get put on the auction block at Rustwater, though Hester is deemed only useful for HumanResources due to her sliced-up face.
218* ''Film/{{Mythica}}'': It turns out that Marek was sold as a slave by Hammerhead after her mother died giving birth to her. She grew up in slave camps and was eventually sold to an apothecary, then later a pimp who had [[SexSlave much worse intentions]] for her than just being an assistant. Dagen's elf mother was also captured and sold into slavery by orcs.
219* ''Film/PrehistoricWomen'': After David rejects Queen Kari's advances, she has him put in shackles and cast into a cave with the other male slaves until he changes his mind.
220%%* Film/{{Spartacus}}.
221%%* ''Film/TheSeaHawk'': Geoffrey Thorpe.
222* ''Franchise/RoboCop'': Upon his gruesome death, Alex Murphy's body is proclaimed the property of Omni-Consumer Products and what little remains viable (most of his brain, his spinal cord, and several organs) transformed into the titular cyborg. Robocop has no human rights and is considered OCP's property. Murphy's brain was mind-wiped, with a series of directives programmed into him to make him beholden to OCP. His memories and humanity slowly begin to return, but Murphy has no way to reclaim his old life, his family, or his rights.
223* ''Franchise/StarWars'': While slavery is outlawed under the Republics' laws, the fringes of galactic civilization are often rife with it anyway -- the Hutts in particular are prolific slave-mongers -- and the victims of pirate raids are often captured for the slave markets. The Empire also enslaves aliens it conquers, and makes extensive use of forced labor in its legal systems.
224** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': Leia is the best-known example. Jabba catches her after she snuck into his palace dressed as a bounty hunter and he intends to keep her as his slave after killing the others. But while they're making their dramatic escape, Leia uses the chain Jabba put on her to strangle him.
225** ''Film/{{Solo}}'': Chewbacca was ensilaved by the Imperials, and was later rescued by Han when he was about to be killed, resulting in the life debt. Kessel is also staffed by large numbers of enslaved workers.
226** Shmi Skywalker was enslaved sometime before Anakin's birth, or else was born a slave herself. She was rescued by her future husband who bought her from Watto and freed her after Anakin was freed and left home.
227* ''Franchise/{{Tron}}'': This is something of a running theme.
228** ''Film/{{Tron}}'': Kevin Flynn is rounded up as a "stray program" and sent to fight to the death in the [[GladiatorGames Games Grid]]. User-Believer Programs (including Tron and Ram) are conscripted into the Games as a way to get them killed.
229** ''Film/TronLegacy'': Sam Flynn, on arriving in {{Cyberspace}}, meets the same welcome his father did.
230** ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'': Beck is made into a game slave when he gets captured.
231** ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'': In the AlternateContinuity, Jet is spared from execution when [[spoiler: Mercury]] suggests this as his punishment instead.
232* ''Film/YoungGuns'': Yen Sun (Doc's {{Love Interest|s}}) becomes this to [[BigBad Lawrence Murphy]] when reputetly her mother (a washerwoman) [[DisproportionateRetribution ruined his shirt.]]
233[[/folder]]
234
235[[folder:Gamebooks]]
236* ''Literature/FightingFantasy'': A few gamebooks features the hero getting enslaved against their will:
237** ''Literature/TrialOfChampions'': Your ship gets wrecked by pirates in the opening prologue, who proceeds to abduct you for slavery before you were sold to the ruthless Lord Carnuss, and must partake in a series of GladiatorGames to win your freedom.
238** ''Literature/MasterOfChaos'': The story begins in a slave galley where you deliberately infiltrate in order to reach your next destination. You'll be put through a series of grueling tasks, but depending on your decisions, you can be set free by befriending the slaver captain (via helping him fend off a Krakken tentacle) or escape on your own.
239** ''Literature/TheCrimsonTide'': The book has numerous endings, some of the bad ones ending with you being flung into the slave mines. One of the outcomes is that you become a fighting slave in a gladiatorial arena.
240[[/folder]]
241
242[[folder:Literature]]
243* ''Literature/OneHundredCupboards'': This happens to James very briefly in ''The Chestnut King'', when the slave galley he and the other hostages are being transported on suffers an accident which kills an odd number of oarsmen and requires rebalancing. [[spoiler:This state of affairs only lasts a few hours before Monmouth manages to escape his captivity and release all the rowers with an [[BigDamnHeroes exceptionally awesome]] wood-livening spell.]]
244* ''Literature/AtTheEarthsCore'': David Innes fights for Dian. He does not realize that after it, he could take her hand to claim her as his wife, take her hand and let go to free her, or do nothing to make her his slave. He does nothing. She is ''[[CultureClash not pleased]]''.
245* ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'': This is the fate of many on the losing side of battles. Notable examples include Dadaji Holkar and his family (all eventually escaped or freed), a troop of Kushan soldiers (freed after working for Belisarius in the attack on Charax), and the few survivors of Ranapur.
246* ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'': Hrothgar's queen is described as queenly and wearing gold, but her name is "Wealhtheow", which means "foreign slave". This is a possible {{Backstory}} for her, especially since the name is unique to her in Anglo-Saxon literature.
247* ''Literature/BeyondThirty'': Turck and Victory fall separately into the hands of soldiers of the Abyssinian Empire, with Turck being sold as a slave to an Abyssinian colonel, and Victory being sent to Emperor's harem.
248* ''Literature/TheBookOfNegroes'': Aminata Diallo is made a slave early on, and stays as one for roughly half the book.
249* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'': Jerin fears this fate -- if he becomes unmarriageable by being DefiledForever, his sisters will have no other choice than to sell him as SexSlave. There is even an offer by some women they meet to rent Jerin for a night. His eldest sister is ''not'' amused. [[spoiler:He is kidnapped later on, which would eventually lead to some form of slavery, but he is rescued.]]
250* ''Literature/CaptiveOfTheOrcs'': Dallet is enslaved by the Orcs in the opening pages, and stays that way through the whole of the story.
251* ''Literature/CaptivePrince'': Damen, the Crown Prince of Akielos, is betrayed by his BastardBastard brother and sold into slavery in an enemy country at the beginning of the series. It's a CruelMercy, as his people believe him to be dead, as well as [[spoiler:a part of political ploys in ''both'' countries]].
252* ''Literature/AChorusOfDragons'': Khirin is sold as a slave midway into the narrative of ''The Ruin of Kings'' -- that is, at the beginning of the first consecutive thread and at the end of the second -- in order to quickly get him out of Quur.
253* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfChaos'': In ''The Orphans of Chaos'', this is [[spoiler:Miss Daw]]'s {{Backstory}}. She can't help the children because [[IGaveMyWord she would break her oath]]. This would mean the next time they would not have mercy on the defeated side but just kill them all.
254* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'':
255** Joslyn reveals that she was sold into slavery along with her older sister [[AbusiveParents by their own father]] at age five. It's not uncommon among the Terintan desert tribes, Joslyn says, most especially with girls as they're worth more to buyers. Later it turns out that slavery is legal and fairly common all throughout the Empire, with many people sold.
256** Milo, a boy with the gift of being a gate for the shadow world, was enslaved after being identified to serve as this.
257** Linna was sold into slavery by her own mother due to [[HalfBreedDiscrimination only being half Terintan]], which is considered a disgrace.
258** Thousands of people in Persopos it turns out also are enslaved through [[DemonicPossession shadow infection]]. Most are kept as mindless drones, doing menial labor unaware, or {{breeding slave}}s in a smaller number of cases.
259* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'':
260** This occurs to the main characters in ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader''. Good thing that the man who purchased Caspian was an old friend of his dead father; he releases the young king and decides to help.
261** Shasta overhears the discussion to sell him as the newest slave of a rich Calormene military man in ''Literature/TheHorseAndHisBoy'' and decides, with [[AFriendInNeed said man's mount Bree's help]], to run away. It is Bree and Hwin's BackStory, as they were kidnapped from their valleys when very young and then used as Calormene mounts. And Queen Susan has reason to fear it, considering that Prince Rabadash is a {{Yandere}} for her and wants her as his puppet ''at any cost''.
262* ''Literature/CitizenOfTheGalaxy'': Thorby has gotten halfway through the process described. The opening line:
263-->''"Lot number ninety-seven," the auctioneer announced, "a boy."''
264* ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'':
265** "Literature/ThePeopleOfTheBlackCircle": The villain intends to keep the captured princess Yasmina as a slave.
266--->''"But for all your stupidity, you are a woman fair to look upon. It is my whim to keep you for my slave."\
267[[RoyalBlood The daughter of a thousand proud emperors]] gasped with shame and fury at the word.\
268"You dare not!"\
269[[BreakTheHaughty His mocking laughter cut her like a whip across her naked shoulders]].''
270** "Literature/TheDevilInIron": Octavia's BackStory. Also, the extent of a nation’s conquests is shown by its slave supplies:
271--->''In the glutted slave markets of Aghrapur, Sultanapur, Khawarizm, Shahpur, and Khorusun, women were sold for three small silver coins -- blonde Brythunians, tawny Stygians, dark-haired Zamorians, ebon Kushites, olive-skinned Shemites.''
272** "Literature/IronShadowsInTheMoon": This is Olivia's {{Backstory}}; of RoyalBlood, she refused an ArrangedMarriage. It begins to seem that attractive princesses are doomed to this trope, doesn't it?
273** "Literature/ThePhoenixOnTheSword": Thoth-amon's BackStory; he lost his RingOfPower.
274** "Literature/TheScarletCitadel": Conan remembers these markets.
275--->''It was exactly such laughter as he had heard bubble obscenely from the fat lips of the salacious women of Shadizar, City of Wickedness, when captive girls were stripped naked on the public auction block.''
276* ''Literature/TheCrimsonShadow'': This is the fate of all Huegoth captives. Some prisoners are also sentenced to slavery by Duke Morkney.
277* ''Literature/{{Deverry}}'': Rhodry spends most of one book enslaved and amnesiac. He's ''not'' happy when he gets his memory back.
278* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Cohen the Barbarian spent some years as a slave in his backstory.
279%%* ''Literature/ADistantEpisode'': The professor is made a slave. It doesn't end well.
280%%* ''Literature/DragonAndSlave'': The main character is made a slave.
281%%* ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'': In ''Dragonflight'', Lessa begins the story as a kitchen drudge.%%The trope is "MADE a Slave", not "IS a Slave".
282* ''Literature/{{Dragonvarld}}'':
283** It turns out that the infant boys born in the monastery do not go to good families for adoption like Melisande had believed. Instead, they are made slaves of Maristara.
284** Ven is kidnapped and sold to a traveling circus after some petty thieves discover his scaly, clawed legs (as a result of being [[HalfHumanHybrid half-dragon]]) so he'll earn money in the freakshow.
285* ''Literature/TheDraka'': The Draka were founded on slavery and oppression, and they enslave the people of every nation they conquer.
286* ''Literature/{{Earthsea}}'': In ''The Farthest Shore'', Prince Arren is briefly sold as a galley slave, until [[TheArchmage Ged]] turns up, lays a smackdown on the slavers, and frees Arren and the other slaves.
287* ''Literature/FarsalaTrilogy'': This happens to Soraya's mother and brother. She arranges to be sold into slavery herself so that she might spy and gain information to free them.
288* ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'': Zelda, like many of her co-workers, has been kidnapped from her home and kept in the Miracles District until it "claimed" her, making her unable to leave and in effect perpetually enslaving her. She was lucky to have an excellent singing voice, which is why she was picked up by one of the better and thus more humane establishments in the district, but it's noted that many other women end up in a far worse position.
289* ''Literature/TheGladiators'': A young man from Celtic Britain is captured by invading Romans and eventually becomes an emancipated gladiator.
290* ''Literature/{{Gor}}'': Free people being forced into bondage is a recurring element. Tarl's HeroicBSOD comes when he chooses "the ignominy of slavery" over "the freedom of honorable death". A recurring plot, it even occurs to Cabot more than once. Typically by the end of the book female characters [[HappinessInSlavery learn to accept their place]] while male characters earn their freedom and otherwise rise above their slavery.
291* ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': All the Pilgrims who go to Ylesia really are being enslaved. The religion they follow is just a scam, and they're addicted to control them by what's passed off as a spiritual gift. After a year they get sold off planet to brothels and mines. If any realize earlier it's all a scam, they're threatened into staying. The Empire has also enslaved many Wookies (they were declared a slave race, although a lot are still free, and others like Chewie have escaped).
292* ''Literature/AHarvestOfWar'': Thousands of Draeze citizens are marched out of the city into slavery. [[spoiler:It doesn't stick.]]
293* ''Literature/{{Heimskringla}}'': Olaf Tryggvason, later to be king of Norway (ruled c. 995-1000 AD), as a boy was captured by Estonian vikings in the Baltic, and spent seven years as a slave in Estonia before he was found and ransomed by his uncle.
294* ''[[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/45331/horizon-of-war-the-realistic-isekai-chronicles/ Horizon of War]]'': Lansius sells a prisoner into slavery as a relatively ''merciful'' punishment. The man is guilty of murdering another prisoner, and Lansius chooses to sell him abroad as a slave and give half of the proceeds to the family of the victim. His co-conspirator is less lucky, and is set "free" in lands occupied by horse-riding nomads with a grudge.
295%%* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': Lavinia. Avoxes are the slaves of Panem.
296* ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'': Oreg in ''Dragon Bones'' has this as his backstory. When he was about seventeen, his father gave him some (apparently drugged) soup, and when Oreg woke up he ''[[GeniusLoci was the castle]]'' in which his father lived. And magically bound slave to the respective owner of the castle, a state lasting [[WhoWantsToLiveForever over a thousand years]].
297* ''Literature/IronDawn'': Kepru is surprised that Barra wants to avoid the slave market, and assumes she was a victim of this trope. ("Nothing to be ashamed of: it could happen to anyone!") Subverted in that no, Barra was never a slave; she wants to avoid the market because she knows she won't be able to resist buying some out of pity.
298* ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'':
299** ''Chessmen of Mars'': TheMole who saves Gahan and Tara was a childhood friend of Gahan's, enslaved.
300** ''A Fighting Man of Mars'': This is Tavia's {{Backstory}} (though she was too young to remember) and also that of Tavan, a minor but significant character; John Carter frees him for his services and because he was obviously of [[BlueBlood noble birth]] gave him a place in the fleet. [[spoiler:Plus, he turns out to be Tavia's father.]]
301* ''Literature/JudgmentOnJanus'' by Creator/AndreNorton: Niall sells himself to buy enough drugs for his mother to have a peaceful death.
302* ''Literature/TheKingMustDie'' is replete with DeliberateValuesDissonance here. Which is to say that since Theseus is a nice guy, when he picks his woman out of the choices, before he fights with another man, he gives orders that if he loses, they are to give her to one man and not make common sport of her, and when he survives he takes to her bed and promises that night never to give her to a guest against her will. (And the other slave women in his household don't get this, hmm?)
303* ''Literature/{{Kull}}'': In "The Shadow Kingdom", the Snakemen can enslave the ghosts of those they kill. After Kull and Brule see a king bound a thousand years ago, they [[ThePromise promise to kill each other if the other is mortally wounded]].
304* ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'': Phedre no Delauney is made the SexSlave of Skaldic (Viking) raiders.
305* ''Literature/LandOfOz'':
306** ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'': Dorothy is told it is easy to find the Witch: just go into her lands and she'll enslave you. The Witch ordered her servants to kill them, except for the Lion, who she thought was useful. The Winged Monkeys were only able to incapacitate the Scarecrow and the Tin Man (who Dorothy and the Witch's liberated slaves were able to find and repair later); Dorothy was spared because a blessing put upon her by the Witch of the North prevented them - or the villain - from hurting her. Taking her prisoner was the only option at that point, and the Witch simply had to bide her time until she could find a way around it.
307** ''Literature/OzmaOfOz'': The Nome King justifies turning the queen of Ev and her children to ornaments because they had been sold to him as slaves, and it was more humane than slaving in the mines.
308* ''Literature/TheLightOfEidon'': Abramm is kidnapped and sold as a slave (first as a scribe, later to be trained as the in-universe equivalent of [[spoiler:a gladiator]]) at the order of [[spoiler: his older brother who's gone insane]].
309%%* ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'': Forms the latter half of the plot.
310* ''Literature/TheMarkOfTheLion'': Two characters at the beginning of ''A Voice in the Wind'': a young Jewess named Hadassah is enslaved along with many of her people when her hometown is raided; [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Germanic tribal warrior]] Atretes is taken as a prisoner of war and forced into the [[GladiatorGames gladiatorial arena]].
311* ''Literature/TheMonkAndTheViking'': Brother Aiden is captured after vikings raid his monastery and made into a thrall.
312* ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'': Richard notes and carefully avoids a slave market.
313* ''Literature/TheObsidianChronicles'': The protagonist was the sole survivor of a dragon attack on his village. The men who came to check for survivors found him... and promptly sold him as a slave to a nearby mine.
314* ''Literature/OnlyWalkSoFar'': This happening to Renn is the IncitingIncident.
315* ''Literature/OrdealInOtherwhere'': Charis signs an indefinite term labor contract; she is being traded for slaves for agricultural labor.
316* ''Literature/{{Oroonoko}}'': The enslavement of the titular character and his love interest is the majority of the story.
317* ''Literature/ThePersianBoy'': Bagoas describes in precise detail how he was taken by his father's enemies, sold at market and castrated. At ten years old.
318* ''Literature/PilgrimsProgress'': One character recounts his managing to evade this trope:
319-->''It came burning hot into my mind, whatever he said, and however he flattered, when he got me home to his House, he would sell me for a Slave.''
320* ''Literature/PlanetPirates'': Sassinak is captured and enslaved by the eponymous bad guys.
321%%* ''Literature/TheQueensThief'': Happens to [[spoiler: Sophos]] in ''A Conspiracy of Kings''.
322%%* ''Literature/RaiKirah'': Seyonne has this as his backstory. Also several other characters, since there was something of a campaign for a long time.%%... what?
323* ''Literature/RangersApprentice'': Skandians (the setting's equivalent of Vikings) make a habit of kidnapping people during raids and taking them back to Skandia, where they're sold into slavery. Will and Evanlyn fall victim to this in the first story arc, though thankfully Erak is sympathetic to their plight and eventually helps them escape. This becomes significantly less common after a group of Araluen slaves plays a pivotal role in fending off an invasion in exchange for their freedom, though later books confirm it does still happen on occasion. The spin-off series ''{{Literature/Brotherband}}'' shows that some Skandians aren't above kidnapping people to sell to foreign slave markets, even though the practice is now heavily frowned on.
324* ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'': [[spoiler:The protagonist arranges this fate for himself to hack into an inaccessible computer system]].
325%%*' ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': Happens to a number of characters in various books.
326%%* ''Literature/TheRiseOfTheIronMoon'': The fate of some humans under the slats.
327* ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' is briefly enslaved by Arabs at the start of the book.
328* ''Literature/TheRomanMysteries'': Nubia starts the series as a slave. Many other children are also kidnapped and enslaved, forming the basis of the plots for ''The Pirates of Pompeii'' and ''The Colossus of Rhodes''. The Four Detectives are briefly captured in ''The Pirates of Pompeii'' and are going to be sold as slaves. Jonathan is also briefly enslaved in ''The Assassins of Rome'' and at the end of ''The Enemies of Jupiter'' he uses the brand mark to pose as a slave. Three of the Four Detectives are captured yet again in ''The Colossus of Rhodes''.
329* ''Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures'': Alinadar is a ChildSoldier SpacePirate until she was wounded and captured by the titular Red Vixen, who decided to keep Ali as a slave as the girl was quite insane by this point.
330* Creator/RosemarySutcliff has this happen with some regularity to his protagonists (or their HeterosexualLifePartners), sometimes with tragic consequences, sometimes not: [[GladiatorGames Esca]] in ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth'', [[SlaveGalley Beric]] in ''Literature/{{Outcast}}'', Aquila in ''[[Literature/TheDolphinRing The Lantern Bearers]]'', Owain and Regina in ''Literature/DawnWind'', Conn in ''Literature/TheShiningCompany'', Jestyn in ''Literature/BloodFeud'', Arcadius and Timandra in ''Literature/TheFlowersOfAdonis'', and Lubrin's entire tribe in ''Literature/SunHorseMoonHorse''.
331* ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheFaroeIslanders'': Subverted Thrand of Gotu intends to rid himself of the boys Sigmund and Thorir, his kinsmen whose fathers have been killed with his accompliceship, by selling them as slaves. But the merchant Hrafn does not want to buy them unless Thrand gives him money to take the boys, and ultimately Hrafn thwarts Thrand's plan by setting the boys free in Norway.
332%%* ''Literature/{{Samaria}}'': Rachel's BackStory.
333* ''Literature/{{Sarum}}'' includes a few characters who are enslaved, and treats them more realistically than many writers (e.g. a pregnant woman is ''terrified'' to be made a slave, knowing her master will probably have her baby killed at birth rather than let a useless infant become a drain on his household).
334%%* ''Literature/TheSeaHawk'': Oliver, Lionel, ''and'' Rosamund.
335* ''Literature/TheSeerAndTheSword'': The king returns with the enslaved prince of the conquered country, and gives him to his daughter.
336%%* ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheApt'': What the Wasps do with everyone not a Wasp and not killed.%%Iby by the s?
337* "Literature/SillyNovelsByLadyNovelists": Creator/GeorgeEliot complains of a work supposed to be instructive because "the hero is a Jewish captive".
338* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
339** The reason Jorah Mormont was exiled to Essos was because he enslaved poachers as a way to finance his wife's lavish lifestyle. Upon learning about this, Ned Stark threatened to behead him, so Jorah immediately packed up and left Westeros.
340** Daenerys Targaryen's handmaid and friend Missandei was captured from her homeland of Naath and enslaved, alongside her brothers. It's explained that Naath is an easy prey, because its people are {{Actual Pacifist}}s who won't even harm plants for food, so they don't resist being enslaved. After freeing her, Daenerys offers to send Missandei back to Naath, but she refuses.
341** [[spoiler:Tyrion Lannister and Jorah Mormont]] get caught by slavers and sold in ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons''. [[spoiler:Both eventually get out by joining the Second Sons.]]
342* ''Literature/SoulRider'' begins with the main character, Cassie, being thrown into slavery after she discovers the corruption endemic in Mother Church. She eventually overcomes this to become the most powerful woman on World and in the Church, only to be put ''back'' into slavery by New Eden when she loses both her power and her ambition to hold it. In addition, pretty much the entire female population of New Eden can be said to be enslaved, complete with magical modifications to make it stick.
343* ''Literature/{{Spartan}}'': Talos, the protagonist, is abandoned by his father as an enfant, because he was born cripple. [[spoiler: Thankfully, he is rescued by a helot.]]
344* ''Literature/{{Stardoc}}'': Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil gets enslaved by the Hsk'skt. She doesn't make a very good slave.
345%%* ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'': Why Una is tending the stall at the market.
346* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Kaladin spends the first book as a slave, having been enslaved by a treacherous aristocrat in the backstory. [[spoiler:Highmarshal Amaram was being attacked by a full Shardbearer -- a man wearing {{Magitek}} PoweredArmor and a [[SoulCuttingBlade sword that can cut through anything]]. Kaladin led his squad of spearmen against the Shardbearer. Most of them died, but Kaladin himself managed to kill the Shardbearer, meaning the Shards now belonged to him. He refused them, as they reminded him too much of his lost friends. Amaram then killed the survivors of Kaladin's squad, took the Shards, and branded Kaladin a slave as a "mercy", since one slave won't be believed.]] It's no wonder that Kaladin violently hates nobles.
347* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
348** ''Literature/BlackFleetCrisis'': The Yevetha were enslaved under the Empire for their high level of technical skills. After rising up, they then enslaved the Imperial personnel who weren't killed. Later they also enslave colonists from other planets in their home star cluster (with most slaughtered).
349** ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'': Teneniel makes Luke and Isolder into her slaves. In the first case, he quickly gets free (being a Jedi). However, Isolder is left as formally her slave until she frees him. Han initially is also designated a slave, though Leia pleads for him with the elders of the Singing Mountain clan, who agree to treat him as a free man. The Nightsisters disputed it, saying that he was their slave because the stormtroopers they own captured him.
350* ''Literature/TheSwordOfSaintFerdinand'': Elvira de Lara, a beautiful Castilian noblewoman, is captured during an Andalusian raid and sold into slavery.
351* ''Literature/TailchasersSong'': One night, Tailchaser, Pouncequick, Roofshadow, and Eatbugs are captured by the Clawguard and forced underground. It turns out that Hearteater is using cats as slaves to help with his scheme. The ones he doesn't eat or use to sit on, he makes dig tunnels all over the land for him. Tailchaser is forced into slavery, but his friends are imprisoned. Before Tailchaser's friends can be killed, Hearteater is defeated and the surviving cats escape.
352* ''Literature/TerraIgnota'': As part of the Deliberate Values Dissonance, slavery has made a comeback in the 25th century in the form of the Servicer program, in which people convicted of serious crimes such as murder may be sentenced to a lifetime of slavery, given the right psychological profile. This is supposedly a humane alternative to a lifetime of prison. The twist is that, instead of a single master, they serve the public: anyone who needs an extra pair of hands with anything is entitled to demand them from a Servicer. Servicers are not paid, are forbidden from owning property, and eat only what food they can scrounge or their masters compensate them with.
353* ''Literature/TimeMachineSeries'': ''Quest for King Arthur'' has the player end up as a Saxon's farmhand in the Dark Ages.
354* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'':
355** ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': Both Men and Elves are enslaved by Morgoth and his minions.
356** ''Literature/TheChildrenOfHurin'': Gwindor is captured during the Battle of Unnumbered Tears and forced to work in the forges of Angband, but later escapes.
357** ''Literature/TheFallOfGondolin'': Tuor is separated from his adoptive family during an Orc ambush, and is captured and brought before Lorgan, chief of the Easterlings ruling Dor-lómin. Lorgan takes Tuor as his slave, intending to break his spirit, but Tuor endures patiently and quietly his abuse as waiting for a chance to escape. Three years later, Tuor is sent with other thralls into the woods, and he picks an axe, kills the guards and flees into the hills.
358* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': Aly, the protagonist of ''[[Literature/TrickstersDuet Trickster's Choice]]'', is kidnapped and sold into slavery in a neighboring nation. This actually forms the premise of the whole duet. Luckily the people she ends up with are fairly nice as things go, although extenuating circumstances mean she is treated better than most. She still deliberately gets herself injured during her first night in the slave pens, though, because she wants to avoid any owners who think she'd make a good [[SexSlave bed-warmer]]; she deliberately makes her bruises look worse than they are, so that she'll give the impression of someone who would be more trouble than it's worth. She only finds out later that she didn't even ''need'' to do this -- probably -- because [[spoiler: the Trickster god of the area is watching over her and wants her help. She's not happy to find out that she could have survived without needing to break her nose.]]
359* ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'' lists it twice:
360** Male Tourists, who become either galley slaves or gladiators.
361** Female Tourists captured by bandits or pirates will be sold as slaves in the Other Continent. The women are then treated well, however, free from beatings, rape and other hardship. While put to work, it will be at a useful skill, and they may even learn Magic. An enemy of their owner will soon raid the villa where the slave now is, and they can escape in the confusion.
362** The daughters of merchants who were brought along with the caravan; these appear to be the only source of harem slaves.
363* ''Literature/TheTreacheryOfBeautifulThings'': Kobolds are enslaved tree spirits, made by carving the wood of their trees. Oberon has enslaved them all. Also, Titania enslaved the changelings, entrapping them all in delusions.
364* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'': This is what happens to [[AmazonBrigade Azanians]] who refuse to bend, after their LadyLand is conquered by the Northern Confederation. The latter, a reactionary Christian Dominionist state, are outraged that something so evil as a country of lesbian Amazons can even exist, and are [[CrushingThePopulace very thorough]] in dismantling it. The survivors are given the choice between assimilation (which amounts to becoming good Christian housewives, more or less) and being sold as property.
365* ''Literature/TheVipersScheme'': Esares disguised himself as a slave in order to infiltrate an enemy country and assassinate their [[TheChosenOne chosen one]], but when his ruse is discovered, his master decides to make him a slave for real instead of killing him.
366* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
367%%** ''Literature/GreyKnights'': Alaric's fate in Hammer of Daemons'', in GladiatorGames. [[spoiler:But he leads a GladiatorRevolt.]]
368** ''Literature/CiaphasCain'': In ''Death or Glory'', the orks have enslaved civilians.
369** ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'': In ''Traitor General'', the surviving inhabitants of Gereon have been enslaved to destroy its Imperial temples. Later they were forced to work under excruciating conditions, and those who managed to live long enough to see the Imperial liberation became physical and emotional cripples.
370** ''Literature/ThousandSons'': In John French's ''Ahriman: Exile'', Hemellion, the king of the planet Vohal, is enslaved by the Prodigal Sons after they [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 kill his world and exterminate his people]]. Ahriman gives Hemellion over to Sanakht to act as his personal servant.
371%%** ''Literature/SpaceWolf'': The presumed fate of the survivors of Ragnar's tribe. Motivating his desire for {{revenge}}.
372** In Aaron Dembski-Bowden's Literature/NightLords novel ''Soul Hunter'', the navigator Eurydice is captured by the Night Lord Talos, who already has a slave named [[MeaningfulRename Septimus]] -- Primus, Secondus, etc have already died. Septimus doesn't even have to ask to start calling her Octavia. On the other hand, she was always treated as a pawn while free, so when the two slaves are attacked, and Talos treats Septimus's injuries, sets out into a stronghold of his enemies to save her from AttemptedRape, and gives Septimus the best quality augmentics for his body parts injured beyond repair -- better than many rich can get -- it's not too surprising that she becomes a loyal slave and even accepts Octavia.
373%%** This seems to be the fate of [[spoiler:Tsu'gan]] in Nick Kyme's ''Firedrake''.
374** In Creator/JamesSwallow's short story "The Returned" Tarikus remembers his BackStory: being captured by the Red Corsairs and sold like cattle to Fabius Bile.
375** In Creator/GrahamMcNeill's Literature/HorusHeresy novel ''False Gods'', Maggard is an indentured servant, but his vocal cords have been removed to keep him from speaking in the presence of his mistress, and she uses him as a SexSlave.
376* ''Literature/WarriorWoman'': The amnesiac protagonist is sold as a pleasure slave to the gladiators. She becomes a gladiator herself when she halves a newbie's skull with his own sword during inspection.
377* ''Literature/WeAreLegionWeAreBob'': The original reason that Bob's consciousness was downloaded from his cryofreezed head was to be a slave AI for FAITH. Luckily, Dr. Landers tells him about the loyalty switches, and Bob manages to remove them all by the time he leaves Sol.
378* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'':
379** In book two, Egwene al'Vere is made a ''damane'' -- an enslaved spellcaster -- by the Seanchan and treated like a dog. Although she's saved by the end of the book, it's tough on her mentally.
380** Several characters are also captured and made slaves for the Shaido Aiel in the later books.
381* ''Literature/TheWitchesOfKarres'': The hero's problems start when he helps a girl who had suffered this. Then she persuades him to help her two sisters.
382* ''Literature/TheWolfDenTrilogy'': Amara and Menander were sold into slavery, and Dido was kidnapped by pirates.
383* ''Literature/WorldOfTheFiveGods'': Being [[SlaveGalley sold to the galleys]] is part of the main character's backstory in ''The Curse of Chalion''. The resulting scars are a minor plot point a few times, [[spoiler:and then a major plot point in the end (spoilered because once you know this, the logic is obvious)]].
384* ''Literature/WorldsOfShadow'': In the first book, the characters suffer this after their ship is hijacked by pirates. The main character is sold as a mining slave, the female characters are made {{sex slave}}s and raped repeatedly before the Empire comes to rescue them all. The main character's daughter is also murdered.
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388* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Fred and Cordelia both end up having this happen when they go through a portal to Pylea, a demon dimension that keeps humans as slaves. Fred manages to disable her explosive collar and lives hiding out in a cave for five years, while Cordelia is seen having a vision and is declared a prophesied ChosenOne. Fred, whose mental state is not great after the experience, meekly lampshades the disparity when she finds out, "They made her a Princess? Oh... that's nice for her... they didn't... didn't do that for me..."
389* ''Series/BreakingBad'': This happens to [[spoiler:Jesse]] in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E14Ozymandias Ozymandias]]", when he's taken prisoner by the Neo-Nazi gang and forced to cook them meth, all the while they torture, humiliate, and starve him, and tell him if he tries to escape, they'll kill [[spoiler:his ex-girlfriend and her son, a threat they make good on and [[ForcedToWatch force him to watch]] ]]. Fortunately, he's able to escape [[spoiler:in the finale, when Walt arrives and guns down all the Nazis]].
390* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
391** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E6TheArk The Ark]]": Between the two time periods, humanity has been enslaved.
392** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators The Dominators]]": The Dominators enslave the Doctor and Jamie.
393%%** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E4TheMutants The Mutants]]": Ky complains this has been done to his people.%%What has?
394%%** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks Planet of the Daleks]]": The Spiridons.
395** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E5Underworld Underworld]]": Most of the people on the planet are enslaved to labour. They think the "sky falls" (tunnel collapses) are done to keep their number low, just enough to labour.
396** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate Warriors' Gate]]": The Tharls had enslaved people in the past — "The weak enslave themselves" — and now are slaves themselves. The Doctor gives them an IronicEcho, and one concedes the justice, but they have suffered enough.
397%%** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E3Frontios Frontios]]": To captured humans.
398** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod "Planet of the Ood"]]: It's revealed that the titular species were [[spoiler:[[HumansAreBastars enslaved by humanity]] and lobotomized by the corporation managing the slave trade to keep them complacent]].
399* ''Series/EmeraldCity'': In "[[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E4ScienceAndMagic Science and Magic]]", [[spoiler:after Jack catches the attention of Lady Ev, she decides to make Jack her property]].
400* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': This is quite common in Essos, where slavery has been practiced widely for centuries, with frequent raids to gain slaves for the places where it's the basis of the economy.
401** Doreah was sold to a brothel at age ''nine'' (by her own ''mother'') and first "[[SexSlave touched a man]]" three years later.
402** Grey Worm and Missandei were also captured through raids as children, then made slaves.
403** The Dothraki take many Lhazareen as slaves to be sold for buying ships so they can buy ships which will take them off to Westeros, horrifying Daenerys (this helps fuel her later anti-slavery campaign).
404** Tyrion and Jorah are later caught by raiders then sold outside Mereen, but it doesn't last long.
405* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'':
406** Methos captured Cassandra when the Four Horsemen burned her village. Thousands of years later, she still wants his head.
407** Methos himself in Ancient Rome. He makes a remark to Duncan about "a senator, his wife and a slave boy" and though the scene was cut from the episode, he’s confirmed as the slave boy in the book "Zealot".
408** Duncan in the period The "Finale" flashbacks happen in. He was captured by Barbary pirates thanks to a woman who wanted to marry an Arab and arranged the attack so she could get away from her bodyguard, Duncan. He was rescued from the market by the immortal Hamza, who eventually became a friend.
409* ''Series/{{Intergalactic}}'': Tula puts her own daughter Genevieve up as collateral on a debt, which she loses, and the crime boss Zedda whom she's playing against then takes her away.
410* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': [[Creator/DavidTennant Kilgrave]] frequently controls the same people for long periods of time to cater or support him during his endeavors.
411** Jessica Jones was Kilgrave's all-purpose slave while he had her under control, serving as his SexSlave and SlaveMook in addition to fulfilling his fantasy that they were in a romantic relationship.
412** On multiple occasions he is shown taking over an apartment and having the previous occupants cook and clean for him.
413** One man in the Kilgrave support group was forced to be his chauffeur for more than a week.
414** At least one woman he had follow him around for long periods just because he liked the way she smiled.
415** When Kilgrave and Jessica speak later in the series she explicitly refers to these sorts of people as slaves (although, ironically, in that particular instance the two people under discussion -- Hank and the bodyguards -- were not, as Kilgrave had hired those two with actual money in order to defuse this specific accusation from Jessica). Double subverted later on, though, when it turns out he did have them under his control; just not in the way Jessica expected. He uses his powers as the primary way of controlling them, and he pays them so they continue to carry out his orders even when he isn't capable of giving them.
416* ''Series/KingdomAdventure'': Zordock's said his long-term goal is to make all the citizens of Lumia his slaves. He seems to change his plans for the main characters specifically between making them his slaves or killing them; probably either one would make him happy. Dagger was called Zordock's slave at one point, as well.
417* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The Orcs kidnap and force innocent people to dig tunnels for unknown reasons. The Elf Arondir is made a slave too in episode 3.
418* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
419** "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E16TheDeprogrammers The Deprogrammers]]": Evan Cooper and millions of other humans were enslaved when the Torkor conquered Earth.
420** "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E4TheGrell The Grell]]": Jesha's grandfather was made a slave as a boy, as were the rest of the Grell alive at that time.
421** "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E7TheHumanOperators The Human Operators]]": The backstory has the surviving humans on the AI ships made their slaves, then [[RapeByProxy forced to]] [[BornIntoSlavery conceive more]] so they could make repairs.
422* ''Series/TheOutpost'':
423** The Mistress "adopted" Janzo, but didn't want a girl, so she sold his sister as a slave.
424** In the Season 3 premiere, the entire Human population of the Outpost have been made slaves of the invading Blackbloods, who are forcing them to mine an ore they need for them.
425** This gets turned around on the Blackbloods later on in the same season, when [[spoiler: Jaaris's rogue Prime Order soldiers take over the outpost and sentence all the Blackbloods to fight to the death for his amusement]].
426* ''Series/PrincessAgents'': Chu Qiao and many other innocent people are kidnapped and forced into slavery.
427* ''Series/Roots1977'': This famous story based on the [[Literature/{{Roots}} novel of Alex Haley]] was made into an award winning TV series in 1976 and tells the story about black slavery in 19th century America. It was famous for being the first TV show to make slavery a topic.
428* ''Series/Roots2016'' makes several revisions from the original, such as Kunta's capture being the product of a grudge between his father and someone from a neighboring clan who sold him to British slave traders, instead of being captured by the white slave traders themselves (which was [[ArtisticLicenseHistory actually uncommon]]).
429* ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles'': After being captured by the Elf Hunters, Eretria's hauled to Utopia and sold as a slave. This doesn't last long however, as Tye bought her to spare her from worse, and [[SlaveLiberation she's freed after that]].
430* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'': This is Spartacus' story, a mercenary in Roman service enslaved for desertion. It goes for pretty much all slaves in the series too.
431* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': In one episode, nine ''Enterprise'' crewmen are captured by Orion slavers. One (T'Pol) sells for a high figure, presumably as a sex slave. Before her new owner can even complete filling out the paperwork, the ''Enterprise'' attacks.
432* ''Series/{{Survivors}}'': Tom, who gets this treatment as punishment for a murder he committed. Greg too, for trying to help him escape.
433* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': The Seanchan enslave Ingtar and Loial when they are taken prisoner in Season 2, with them serving Lady Suroth. Egwene is enslaved as well later, the fate of all woman channelers in the Seanchan's hands, and she's tortured for breaking her into serving them submissively.
434* ''Series/{{Willow}}'': The trolls have enslaved many people for work in the mines of Skellin on the Crone's behalf.
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438* Music/BobMarley wrote a lot of songs in which he referenced black slavery: "Concrete Jungle", "Slave Driver" (''Music/CatchAFire''), "Crazy Baldheads" (''Music/RastamanVibration'') "Buffalo Soldier", "Redemption Song" ("Confrontation") and even into the sleeve notes of the album "Survival".
439* ''Music/KidsPraise'': Charity Churchmouse has a nightmare where she gets tricked into signing a contract that essentially enslaves her to Risky Rat.
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442[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
443* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
444** Heracles/Hercules had to deal with this one a lot. Due to both his [[HairTriggerTemper violent temper]] and extremely [[TheAtoner self-effacing personality]] he was often reduced to slavery to make penance for things he did on impulse.
445** His famous 12 Labors were the result of enslaving himself to his cousin Eurystheus to atone for killing his wife and children. This one wasn't actually his fault -- [[WomanScorned Hera]] drove him into a fit of insanity -- but it's ''really'' hard to forgive yourself for killing your wife and kids. One of the actual labors was cleaning out the manure from a stable, a menial task which was meant to humiliate Heracles. This one didn't didn't work out, as Hercules diverted a river to flush the stables like a giant toilet. That actually backfired, as Eurystheus decided that it ultimately "didn't count" because [[ExactWords the river cleaned the stables rather than Hercules himself]], meaning he had to extend his servitude a bit.
446** On another occasion he was forced to atone for a murder by becoming the slave of a queen named Omphale for a time, which had a more humbling effect (in some versions Omphale forces him to wear a dress and perform tasks normally reserved for women).
447** In another myth, he's tasked with impregnating 50 women (as the amazon queen assumed this would take him a long time, leaving her plenty of time to seduce his attractive friend). He managed it in a single night and departed for his next task the next day.
448** After Persephone's abduction, Demeter wandered the earth, and when she finally stopped at a household, she told them she had escaped slavers who had captured her. That, obviously, wasn't true, but it was the easiest way to fulfill SacredHospitality without admitting who she really was.
449** Theseus abducted Helen intending to make her his wife. When her brothers Castor and Pollux freed her, she retaliated by enslaving his mother, Aethra. Aethra remained her slave and went with her to Troy, until she was finally freed at the end of the Trojan War by her grandsons Acamas and Demophon.
450* ''Literature/TheOdyssey'': Both Odysseus' [[OldRetainer swineherd]] Eumaius and his nurse Eurycleia were born royals but later enslaved in the BackStory.
451* Hecuba and all the princesses of Troy after UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar. Except for the one who is [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed]] at Achilles' tomb -- in some versions, she tells Hecuba at least she's escaping slavery.
452* ''Literature/TheIliad'':
453** Hector foresees and laments such a fate for Andromache.
454--->''Well do I know that the day will surely come when mighty Ilius shall be destroyed with Priam and Priam's people, but I grieve for none of these -- not even for Hecuba, nor King Priam, nor for my brothers many and brave who may fall in the dust before their foes -- for none of these do I grieve as for yourself when the day shall come on which some one of the Achaeans shall rob you forever of your freedom, and bear you weeping away. It may be that you will have to ply the loom in Argos at the bidding of a mistress, or to fetch water from the springs Messeis or Hypereia, treated brutally by some cruel task-master; then will one say who sees you weeping, 'She was wife to Hector, the bravest warrior among the Trojans during the war before Ilius.' On this your tears will break forth anew for him who would have put away the day of captivity from you. May I lie dead under the barrow that is heaped over my body ere I hear your cry as they carry you into bondage.''
455** The women in the Greek camp.
456** Also, Tecmessa, who was Ajax's captive.
457** A dispute over slaves is actually what causes the major conflict of the poem.
458* ''Literature/TheBible'':
459** Joseph gets bought for his prettiness -- as a kind of home accessory.
460** The Jews in general in Egypt (early in the ''Literature/BookOfExodus'') and again when conquered by the Assyrians and Babylonians.
461* ''Literature/{{Mahabharata}}'': All five of the Pandava princes and their wife Draupadi end up enslaved to their cousin and nemesis Duryodhana after first staking all their wealth, their kingdom, their personal possessions and ultimately their freedom [[LostHimInACardGame in a dice game, which they lose]] to Duryodhana. Duryodhana then proceeds to order Draupadi stripped off her clothes in the Royal court, since he now owns her. Luckily for her, Krishna intervenes to ensure that Draupadi remains fully clothed. Later on, Duryodhana is shamed into releasing the Pandavas into a long exile instead.
462* Myth/NorseMythology: While on a journey with Loki, Thor rests at the home of a farmer and his family, and offers the goats that pull his chariots as a meal, telling them simply not to break the bones. The son, Thjalfi, disobeys, and when Thor revives the goats, he notices one has a limp. Depending on which version of the myth you read, Thor either flies into a murderous rage and is only pacified by the father offering Thjalfi and his sister Roskva as slaves, or Thjalfi pre-emptively confesses the moment he notices Thor's change in demeanor, and Thor simply requires him to become his slave in compensation. Either way, Thjalfi becomes Thor's slave alongside Roskva.
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465[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
466* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
467** This will ''definitely'' happening to ''anyone'' (PlayerCharacters or otherwise) who are taken alive by the neogi, an evil race of bug-like creatures who first appeared in the ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' setting but now appear elsewhere. Turning other races into slaves [[PlanetOfHats is their hat]], so to speak, and powerful neogi even do it to weaker neogi. (They view the whole universe in terms of ownership; in their culture, the strong possess and dominate the weak, and it's possible for slaves to own weaker slaves, who in turn can own their own slaves.)
468** The dao (a type of genie of [[ElementalPowers elemental Earth]]) are another race known for being notorious slavers. Ironically, the dao themselves were forced into a type of divine slavery when their ruler was defeated by the Faceless God of [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms the yikaria]] (or yak-folk), requiring the dao to serve the yikaria for "a thousand years and a year". (How much of that sentence had already passed at mainstream time is not known.) Due to this agreement, every yikaria has the ability to summon a dao -- so long as he does not already have one as a servant -- who must serve unquestionably until the sun has set twice.
469** In the 4th Edition guidebook ''Monster Manual 2'', Slavers are one of several varieties of humans that are outlined as possible antagonists. The Lore section states, "Slavers are themselves slaves to greed and power", [[TruthInTelevision which is true, more often than not]].
470** Better known than any of the above examples are the Drow, who keep slaves of every type from other drow to surface elves and humans to such powerful beings as giants and the occasional dragon. Given their enjoyment of enslaving the most powerful beings they can find, it should come as no surprise that many a noble house has been toppled by slave revolt.
471** The Illithids, or mind flayers, are yet another race known for their love of enslaving whatever other species they find, using their psychic powers to dominate the minds of those they enslave. For them, it's not just for the manual labor (which they abhor doing themselves), they also use the slaves as food because they can only subsist on the brains of sentient creatures, the more intelligent the better, and also as reproduction because they propagate more of their kind by producing tadpole-like larvae that are implanted into the heads of humanoid creatures. The larvae consumes the brain of its host over a period of days, growing and taking over more of the body's functions as it does so, until it turns the unfortunate victim into a new Illithid. Needless to say, few creatures are willing to let themselves be enslaved by mind flayers.
472* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': The medieval fantasy ''Banestorm'' setting includes four different kinds of slavery: Slave By Law (sentenced to slavery), Slave By Capture (made a slave by abduction or war), Slave By Birth (born to a slave parent), and Slave By Choice (selling yourself into slavery to pay debts). Not every realm recognizes all four types, and in the principality of Cardiel, [[SlaveLiberation all forms of slavery are illegal.]]
473* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
474** The LawfulNeutral shaitan genies who rule the Elemental Plane of Earth make extensive use of slavery, with many of their empire's cities and mines being built and maintained by slave labor. Enslavement is a common punishment for breaking one of the shaitans' many draconian laws, and the earth genies actively exploit this when seeking to get new slaves. For instance, the imp-like mephits that share their plane are often found in violation of some law or another and forced into labor. The shaitans also maintain a literal city of gold to which they attract travelers by spreading tales and propaganda of it in the hopes that some visitors will take away a bit of the locally valueless gold, at which point they can charge them with theft and enslave them, their companions to said city, anyone they sold the gold to...
475** The empire of the LawfulEvil efreet genies in the Plane of Fire is likewise built on the backs of slaves, and the efreeti will cheerfully enslave anyone who can't stop them from doing so. Most notable is their enslavement of the azer, a race of elementals resembling dwarves with flaming beards and hair, whose fortresses they systematically overran in the distant past, reducing the azer to an oppressed slave class in their empire. Those few azers not enslaved by the efreeti are instead slaves of the fire mephits who make up the Plane of Fire's other major power.
476** The duergar -- LawfulEvil dwarves who live in [[BeneathTheEarth Darklands]] -- are notorious slavers. Their entire society and religion is based on constant toil to begin with, and their cities are built and maintained by the toil of legions of slaves. Duergar see enslaving other beings and forcing them to work for them as a high personal accomplishment.
477* ''TabletopGame/Space1889'': The great European powers, particularly the British, are trying to stop slavery in general and slave trade in particular. However, it is alive and well on Mars. At least one Red Sand scenario can start when the players are captured and enslaved by High Martians. There is another adventure in Challenge 42 where the players are captured by bandits who intend to sell them as slaves.
478* ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'': The Imrians are a race of slavers who prey primarily upon the primitive inhabitants of the southern coasts and islands. Even among those who use slaves, Imrians are regarded as backwards and disgusting.
479* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'':
480** The Dark Elves are prolific slavers. Their fleets and Black Arks haunt the seas, attacking passing vessels, raiding coastal villages and taking as many captives as they can. It's not uncommon for entire coastline to be filled with sudden ghost towns after Dark Elf corsairs pass by. Once a ship's holds are filled it returns to the Dark Elf city-states, chiefly the port of Karond Kar, where great slave markets and a life of backbreaking toil await them.
481** While the Dark Elves are mostly a coastal issue, nobody is safe from Skaven slave raids. Skaven civilization is built on the backs of slaves, which the Under-Empire acquires by sending raiding parties to the surface world (the Skaven live BeneathTheEarth) to raid slums and isolated villages for slaves. The topside governments' denial that the Skaven exist tends to run into strain when entire villages and neighborhoods have their populations vanish overnight.
482** In the first few editions, before some significant changes in worldbuilding, the Slann army was augmented by Lizardmen and Troglodytes forcefully recruited from defeated tribes and by human captives who have been lobotomized, castrated and turned into expandable slave warriors. Later editions made Slann, Lizardmen and Troglodytes (renamed Kroxigor) part of a single species and removed the human slaves altogether.
483* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
484** When Orks overrun a planet, the surviving natives are typically enslaved and forced to do menial labor for the conquerors. Due to the Orks' rough treatement of their subordinates, these unfortnates rarely last long.
485** Similarly to Orks, Chaos forces usually enslave the population when they take a planet.
486** Dark Eldar society runs on slavery, and their most common reason for launching raids on alien worlds is to round up as many captives as possible to bring back to Commorragh as laborers, arena fodder, organ banks, and torture subjects.
487** The Imperium enslaves convicts. A great deal of its factories and ships are crewed by people who lost their freedom for any number of minor offences and financial problems -- people guilty of more major issues are usualy executed or turned into servitors, lobotmized cyborg laborers.
488** Imperial Space Marines have slaves to do work that a Space Marine is not needed for, which are generally failed Marine candidates who somehow survived washing out who are often [[HappinessInSlavery more than happy to help]], since they're still in a better position than the vast majority of Imperial citizens. Most such slaves who appear in the fluff are immensely valued personal assistance who even receive longevity treatments that only the rich normally get. Space Marine serfs are also, in some cases, even better trained than the Imperial Guard in combat, being expected to join the defence of their masters' fortress-monasteries if an enemy ever manages to get close enough to be a threat to them. In some fluff it is revealed that some Chapters have serfs who are born, raised, live their lives and die in the Chapter's service.
489** In the BackStory of the universe, Angron's childhood in the GladiatorGames and his leadership in the GladiatorRevolt stemmed from this.
490** Gue'vesa, humans who have been folded into the Tau Empire's sphere of influence. Many Gue'vesa, and fans, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation might not]] [[HappinessInSlavery see it]] [[DesignatedVillain that way]].
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492
493[[folder:Theatre]]
494* In ''Theatre/AidaVerdi'', this is how the princess, Aida, ended up in Egypt.
495* Creator/{{Euripides}}:
496** In ''Theatre/{{Andromache}}'', Andromache is the victim of her master's jealous wife, Hermione. Who was a Spartan -- at the time of the Athenian-Spartan wars. Naturally, Andromache comes off well.
497** ''Theatre/TheTrojanWomen''[='=]s entire premise is that the Trojan princesses being divided up among the victors.
498* Creator/{{Shakespeare}}:
499** ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'': In the BackStory, Othello won Desdemona by telling his BackStory -- including this.
500--->''Wherein I [[TheStoryteller spoke]] of most disastrous chances,\
501Of moving accidents by flood and field,\
502Of hair-breadth ’scapes i' th' imminent deadly breach,\
503Of being taken by the insolent foe\
504[[MadeASlave And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence]]\
505And portance in my traveler’s history.''
506** ''Theatre/PericlesPrinceOfTyre'': Happens to Marina, who is [[SexSlave sold to a brothel]] after bring captured by pirates. Luckily, her IncorruptiblePurePureness [[EasyEvangelism persuades]] all the potential "customers" to [[HeelRealization seek a life of virtue]] rather than take advantage of her.
507* Creator/{{Plautus}} has this as a standard plot in his play, this being the best way to ensure that the ''[[UpperClassTwit adulescens]]'' can make a legitimate marriage with the "flute girl" he's fallen for: she turns out to have been captured by {{Pirate}}s at a young age and is revealed to be the [[TheIngenue long-lost daughter]] of the next-door neighbor. A twist that was later [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations recycled]] (along with a lot of other Plautus gags) in ''Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum''.
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509
510[[folder:Video Games]]
511* ''VideoGame/{{Aveyond}}'': Rhen is kidnapped from her village and is sold into slavery.
512* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate3'': Karlach, one of the selectible origins and recruitable party members, was a poor warrior from the city of Baldur's Gate who was sold into slavery in the Nine Hells by the person who she worked for. She spent ten years there before the events at the start of the game allowed for her escape. Evading being recaptured by the forces of her previous master, the archdevil Zariel, is one of her major motivations.
513* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': Sebille, one of your selectable origins and recruitable party members, was made a slave by the LizardFolk via a mind controlling SlaveBrand, and then made to kill her own people. She escaped slavery before the start of the game, and is now hunting her master down both for her freedom and revenge.
514* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': Fenris got a double dose of this. Being an elf in Tevinter, he was already born a slave. Then his master Danarius augmented him with lyrium tattoos in a painful ritual that literally ''burned'' his memories away. [[spoiler:An "honor" Fenris ''competed for'' so he could win his mother and sister's freedom.]] The person Fenris was ceased to exist, leaving a powerful and completely obedient BlankSlate. Fenris didn't develop a taste for freedom until a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment prompted him to flee Tevinter and never look back. [[spoiler:He can be MadeASlave again if Hawke allows Danarius to reclaim him. Fenris will be so disheartened by the betrayal that he'll surrender without a fight. A grateful Danarius will send a letter to Hawke mentioning that Fenris' memories were wiped again and he is once more an obedient slave, and he extends an invitation to Hawke to visit his estate in Tevinter.]]
515* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'': You're the son of a hero and you travel with him. A short way through the game you meet the Big Bad Guy, get your ass handed to you and spend the next ten years as a slave.
516* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': Upon entering the Pitt, the player character is jumped and enslaved. This is pretty JustForFun/{{egregious}} CutsceneIncompetence and a massive ButThouMust, since the way you're "supposed" to do it is by willingly dressing up as a slave and turning yourself in as a failed "escapee". And needless to say, you're immediately "volunteered" for the most dangerous job available, and then again "volunteered" participate in the GladiatorGames -- only by a fellow slave! [[JustifiedTrope Granted,]] you're the [[OneManArmy only one capable of doing the jobs,]] and this was pretty much the entire escape plan from the start, considering that winning in the GladiatorGames means you're freed from slavery and can become one of the slavers, where you then have free run of the Pitt and can do anything and everything you want to free and cure the sick slaves. [[GreyAndGreyMorality If only it were that simple.]]
517* ''Franchise/CompilationOfFinalFantasyVII'': ''Literature/FinalFantasyVIIRemakeTraceOfTwoPasts'' reveals this is to be Tifa's oldest fear after hearing tales of HumanTraffickers. Unfortunately for her, Tifa's life continuously puts her in danger of it at least once per game.
518** In the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' she goes undercover as a HoneyTrap for Wall Market's Don Corneo, with the implication she will be his SexSlave if left alone with him.
519** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRebirth'' it's doubled down in that Hojo tries to make her a BreedingSlave after seeing several Sephiroth Clones mutate after fusing with fiends and gets interested in their genetic makeup. Later in the Dustbowl the party is captured by Gus' men and if Cloud cannot win a chocobo race he threatens to sell the rest of his party as slaves to the highest bidder. Hearing that Gus was putting up a woman for sale in his arena ticks her off so much that after winning she kicks him right then and there and warns him that she will do worse if she hears him doing it again.
520* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
521** Generic Bandits try to do this to pretty much any female character. They have nothing to do with the plot, they serve no purpose except to teach the player the ins and outs of the system, and it happens so frequently that it's become a RunningGag among the fanbase.
522** In the ''Tellius'' subseries, the laguz, a race of animalistic humanoids [[{{Animorphism}} that can shapeshift into animals]], have been bought and sold as slaves in the [[HumansByAnyOtherName beorc (human)]] nation of Begnion. A few playable laguz, including Muarim and Vika, are former slaves having escaped and become a part of the Laguz Emancipation Army, dedicated to the [[SlaveLiberation liberation]] of all laguz slaves.
523** Rafiel, the eldest prince of the heron laguz in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'', was kidnapped from the heron homeland Serenes Forest, and was sold as a slave to a Begnion nobleman, Hetzel. Hetzel ''did'' treat Rafiel kindly, to the point that he was going to return him to the forest...and then the [[DoomedHometown Serenes Massacre]] happened. Rafiel was allowed to leave, and ended up in the far-off desert land of Hatari with wolf laguz queen Nailah.
524** During ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'', the raven laguz [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership king Naesala]] sells his ChildhoodFriend Reyson, youngest prince of the heron laguz, to the Begnion nobleman [[FatBastard Oliver]], Duke of Tanas. To his credit, Naesala is [[spoiler:literally forced to serve Begnion due to his [[MagicallyBindingContract blood pact]]]], and was probably going to rescue Reyson later, had he not been liberated by the protagonist Ike and his army barging through Oliver's mansion.
525* ''VideoGame/HegemonySeries'': If you manage to capture retreating enemies, you get to do this to them. It's a [[EvilPaysBetter cheap alternative]] to hiring workers for the mines or supply duties.
526* In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'', Manannan prefers to enslave young boys to do his menial work, calling them all "Gwydion," and killing them on their 18th birthday or if they learn too much. His latest is the PlayerCharacter, and it’s up to him to break the cycle and ensure Manannan won’t enslave any more boys.
527* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'':
528** Juhani's BackStory. Turns out Revan was the one who freed her from it. [[spoiler: You also can skewer the guy who tried to buy her on your lightsabers]]. You also find a small child who ran away from Mandalorian raiders who speaks mostly gibberish, a few people who were sold into slavery as punishment for debts, and you have to free Bastila from the swoop gang planning to auction her off on the galactic slave market.
529** ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'': Mira was technically a slave of the [[ProudWarriorRace Mandalorian]] raiders who destroyed her home. Unlike most examples, they weren't abusive to her, teaching her how to fight and handle explosives as though she were a Mandalorian child.
530** ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': The backstory of the Sith Inquisitor is that they were a former slave, who earned their freedom when they were discovered to be force-sensitive. They were then given two options; Go to the Sith Academy on Korriban for TrainingFromHell... ''[[JoinOrDie or die!]]''
531* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'': The backstory of the WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Angel of Slaughter was that her own parents sold her into slavery as a young girl, which was a CynicismCatalyst. Eventually the BigBad and his enforcers rescued her, brutally killing her tormentors, the relief from which left her a {{Sadist}} who joined them as Enforcer number XV.
532* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'': The Manweersmalls have an unfortunate tendency to find themselves enslaves by the villains ''du jour''. In ''A New Beginning'', they're enslaved by the Apes to do mining for them. Spyro frees them, but in the next game it turns out that they were captured again by the Skavangers and, since they're too weak to make entertaining gladiators, have been forced to be valets instead.
533* ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'' opens with Marco being kidnapped by aliens and sold into slavery. Many other children were kidnapped at the same time, though Marco is the only one still alive by the present day. [[spoiler:The kidnappings were orchestrated by Astaroth, who’d intended Marco to be the personal slave of his daughter Haqua.]]
534* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'':
535** In ''NeverwinterNights/ShadowsOfUndrentide'', the [[LizardFolk asabi]] merchant/treasure hunter Ashtara un-[[TakenForGranite petrifies]] the heroes at the start of Chapter Two -- then clamps a SlaveCollar around their necks and forces you to help him search the ruins of Undrentide. He frees you, however, after you destroy the city's ancient guardian {{golem}}s so that his other slaves can get on with looting the place.
536** The community module ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'' has a particularly memorable long and unskippable cutscene where you are being sold at the drow slave market.
537---> "Buy one kobold, get one free!"
538* ''VideoGame/NewLegends'' have you suffering this fate in the YouCantThwartStageOne level. After Xao Gon killed your father the Emperor and took over your kingdom, he decide to have you flung into his labor camps for no reason other than to rub in his victory.
539* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'': You can do this by capturing humans (either {{mooks}} of the evil teams or passive [=NPCs=]) in Pal Spheres and then putting them to work building your base or crafting items.
540* ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'': In the remake, it's eventually revealed that the [[ArtifactOfDoom Terror Mask]] knows so much about the [[EldritchAbomination Corrupted]] [[spoiler:because it was enslaved by them]]. For ''[[FateWorseThanDeath eons]]'', by its own account. [[spoiler:So it uses Rick to enact its own RoaringRampageOfRevenge against them.]]
541* ''VideoGame/{{Transarctica}}'': You can capture the crews of Viking trains and enslave them to work in your coal mines, or purchase slaves in towns to the same effect. Additionally, it's possible to capture slaves while fighting the Mole Men in underground tunnels.
542* ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'': This shows up in the plots of a few characters, mainly in [[spoiler:the main character's, in which she ends up getting herself killed in order to avoid being sold off by her parents]].
543* ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'': Years before the events of the game, [[DamselInDistress Makoto Makimura]] was sold into slavery to the Korean mafia by a man who [[DistinguishingMark bore a bat tattoo on his left forearm]]. [[spoiler:Said man was Jun Oda, [[BigGood Tachibana]]'s [[NumberTwo right-hand man]], who [[OhCrap realized far too late]] that [[ConnectedAllAlong Makoto was Tachibana's sister]].]]
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545
546[[folder:Webcomics]]
547* ''Webcomic/{{Aisopos}}'': Aesop becomes the slave of Yadmon, the person who killed his parents. Now, that's bad luck!
548* ''Webcomic/{{Baalbuddy}}'': "[[https://youtu.be/_IBHD7UPquA Company of Humans Enslaves Elf]]" has an elf girl reduced to slavery. Instead of the standard hentai trope of her becoming a sex slave, however, she's forced into tech support.
549* ''Webcomic/DragonMango'': Some captured goblins are forced to work until they pay off their debt.
550* ''Webcomic/TheDreamlandChronicles'': The {{pirate}}s' threat of this inspires him to fight [[http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-03/page-129/ here]].
551* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': Slavery is a well-established practice among the drow cultures. Debtors risk enslavement to their creditors if unable to pay back what they own, wars often see victorious armies enslaving captives from enemy armies and citizenry alike, and slave raids on orc and human settlements are common practice.
552* In ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'', they think [[http://endstone.net/2009/07/15/issue-2-page-4/ they can enslave Kyri because she's a higher animal]] and [[SexSlave one customer doesn't want her slaughtered yet]].
553%%* ''Webcomic/{{Fansadox}}'': Every. [[Webcomic/BirthdayGift Last.]] Issue. And it sticks.
554* ''Webcomic/IDontWantThisKindOfHero'': Guineung, as a child, due to being a half-breed. During her mission as Napkin (the team before Spoon was formed), Dana saved him, and he felt grateful. He works for Dana to show his gratitude, hence why he's been with Dana ever since.
555%%* ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'' [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib053.html Roan]]. [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter006/ib035.html And Dara]].
556%%* ''Webcomic/{{Lustomic}}'': Male submission/forced slaves.
557%%* ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'' [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2011-12-02 and the other abducted henchmen]].
558* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
559** After the Order defeats an outlaw band, Belkar proposes selling them into slavery.
560** The first step gets foiled [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0685.html here]] by Belkar's BerserkButton.
561** When they get to the Empire of Blood, Roy and Belkar get captured and become gladiators.
562* ''Webcomic/{{Terinu}}'': Teri's best friend Matt is a notable case. He was indentured to a psychotic SpacePirate when he was ''eight'' to pay for his father's drinking induced debts. It says something about how sucktacular his family's life was that this was an ''improvement''.
563* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Starfish's victims were abducted and enslaved by him, then cut open to smuggle [[AntiMagic First Silver]] hidden inside their still living bodies.
564* ''Webcomic/{{Vattu}}'': Vattu is sold into slavery by her tribe as payment to the Sahtan empire.
565* ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'': The golem girls were used as enslaved guardians, [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/dontignore/ only Bud recognized it for what it was]].
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567
568[[folder:Web Originals]]
569* ''Literature/StatlessAndTactless'': Joe talks the group into enslave Mari because it actually protect her more then harm her. Also it would piss off her player, Ian. Although this is technically supposed to just be for appearances and not actual slavery, Soo immediately takes a liking to the idea of owning someone.
570* ''WebOriginal/TheInnocent'': The children turn all adults into slaves during the [[KidsVersusAdults war on adults]]. Justified, as the children used to be slaves of them, and dislike their authority, causing the conflict to happen.
571* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': [[Characters/RWBYCinderFall Cinder Fall]] desires power above all else, and hates being reminded that she serves Salem since she knows what it's like to be someone else's slave. As a child, she was "adopted" and forced to work in an upscale Atlesian hotel by its wealthy owner. Cinder was not only forced to do most of the physical labor, but also deprived of food, teased and tormented by her "step-sisters", and her legal guardian controlled her with a ShockCollar. Five years later, Cinder eventually killed her "family" and fled.
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575* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE8TheForgotten The Forgotten]]", a disguised Batman investigates a number of mostly homeless or jobless people have gone missing. He ends up captured by the villains and amnesiac, forced into mining gold for a FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit who throws dissenters into dumpsters to die of heat stroke if they so much as look at him the wrong way.
576* ''WesternAnimation/BearStory'': The bear is kidnapped from his home and family and enslaved, forced to perform in a circus.
577* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': This is how Rampage winds up serving Megatron. Rampage's [[HeartDrive spark]] is immortal, so Megatron [[YourSoulIsMine cuts off a piece of it and places it in a box]] that he can use to [[ImHavingSoulPains inflict excruciating pain on Rampage]] if he disobeys.
578* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': Enslavement happens to Courage and his family at times. Notable slavemakers include a giant alien robot and a clan of bullfrogs.
579* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
580** "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E11HowHermesRequisitionedHisGrooveBack How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]": Hermes and [=LaBarbara=] are tricked into attending a "resort" where visitors are forced into hard labor. Hermes uses his powers of Bureaucracy to "efficiently" dump all the work on one Australian guy and free everyone else.
581** "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E17APharaohToRemember A Pharaoh to Remember]]": Fry, Leela and Bender are made slaves in an AncientEgypt-like planet. The Pharaoh is about to free them when he dies, but Bender scams his way into being the next Pharaoh, leaving Fry and Leela as slaves until the end of the episode.
582* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' shows that Cobra does this to civilians, and they do it to Scarlet in the FiveEpisodePilot. This comes back to bite them -- in one scene, a gutsy female slave working as a maid throws water upon the M.A.S.S. device, causing it to break down and foiling Cobra Commander's attempt to vaporize New York City. In the conclusion of the same arc, they have a full [[SlaveLiberation slave revolt]] on their hands when the heroes storm their compound.
583* ''WesternAnimation/HunkyAndSpunky'': Spunky the burro is kidnapped by a mean prospector and turned into a pack mule. [[MamaBear Spunky's mother Hunky comes charging to the rescue.]]
584* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
585** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': This is a common game plan for villains, such as Catrina in "WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEscapeFromCatrina" and the goblins in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE57TheGoldenHorseshoes2 The Golden Horseshoes, Part 2]]", who often plot to enslave the ponies and force them to work for them.
586** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E19ADogAndPonyShow A Dog and Pony Show]]", Diamond Dogs (a pack of dog-like creatures who love jewels) see Rarity using her magic to find gems, so they capture her and force her to work for them. It's never directly called slavery, but still. She manages to get them to let her go (and go off with all the gems) [[PityTheKidnapper through the power of whining]].
587* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': A witch captures Wirt and Greg so she can fill their heads with wool and turn them into mindless servants.
588* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': Before the series began, Blackfire gave her younger sister Starfire to the Gordonians as a peace offering to keep them from invading Tamaran, and also to get Starfire out of the way. In the OriginsEpisode "[[Recap/TeenTitansS5E10Go Go]]", Starfire manages to escape and make it to Earth, where she meets the rest of the Teen Titans.
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592* Most ancient societies in the Near East had slavery as an institution. People could become slaves due to debts, certain crimes, or being taken as prisoners in war. This was also the case for both ancient Greece and Rome. However there were also usually mechanisms to gain freedom. In ancient Greece and Rome slaves were in fact paid a stipend they could save up to buy their freedom — after which they still had limited civil rights though. (Free-born Romans were incredibly snobby about freedmen.) It was also not legal in most cases to simply kidnap people and sell them into slavery (not that it didn't happen sometimes of course). The idea about being sent to the mines as an effective death sentence is pure TruthInTelevision, though; ancient mining didn’t have anything in the way of health and safety rules, so only slaves would put up with the conditions, and they were worked to death.
593* Jewish law forbade fellow Hebrews from being enslaved (though [[IndenturedServitude indentured servants]] were allowed, to serve six-year terms). However foreigners could still be bought as slaves and inherited. This rule was then adopted by Christians as forbidding them enslaving fellow believers. However it was then made a racial institution again during colonization of the Americas, so even if slaves then became Christians it didn't automatically free them, due to their race. Islam also had much the same rules.
594* The idea of being sent to the galleys as bad news is true enough, but with nuances. In the late Middle Ages and some time after, nations on all sides of the Mediterranean, Christian and Muslim, had an unending need for galley oarsmen, and so would raid each other for slaves on any excuse. Experienced sailors, who already had the training, were preferred. It was doubtless brutally hard and soul-sappingly boring work, but some slaves survived for years, so it wasn’t an automatic death sentence. (After all, who’d want their ship’s propulsion system dying in mid voyage?) And arrangements could be and were made for galley slaves to be ransomed to freedom. This all happened to Creator/{{Miguel de Cervantes}}, author of ''Literature/DonQuixote''. Convicts could also be sent to the galleys in some cases, which was effectively slavery even if they sentence was supposedly for a limited period, because they often died before completing their sentence, and the authorities were frequently careless about checking when anyone’s sentence was up.
595* Creator/{{Plato}} was invited to Sicily because the tyrant Dionysius the Elder wanted philosophers at his court. Plato showed up, gave him advice, and sufficiently offended Dionysius that he sold him into slavery, and his friends had to buy him back. This did not stop him from going to advise Dionysius the Younger a generation later, too, which ended more peacefully, if no more successfully.
596* When the Greek philosopher Phaedo of Elis was young, he was taken prisoner in war and was subsequently sold into slavery in Athens, where he was forced into prostitution. Eventually he met Socrates, who took a liking to him and had him freed.
597* Unfortunately it still happens everywhere, including first world countries. According to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230615181432/https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---ipec/documents/publication/wcms_854733.pdf the 2022 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery]] there were up 28 million in forced labour and 22 million in forced marriage in the world in 2021.
598* A convoluted example comes from the early history of the United States. The first slaves in Britain's American colonies were prisoners transported to the New World and sold to the plantation owners as craftsmen, house servants, and field workers. While these "[[DoubleSpeak indentured servants]]" never regained their freedom, upon reaching adulthood any children born to them became free after a period of six years spent working for their parents' owners as "repayment" for the food, shelter, and education they were provided as children. Once it grew into African slaves, this became hereditary.
599* Modern example: this is a huge problem in the cocoa industry. Children are bought cheap (or kidnapped) in Ivory Coast and forced to work. It is estimated that 95% of the kids are not paid for the work, and due to the heavy loads they carry and machetes they use they often get injuries that go untreated. Around 42% or so of cocoa comes from this place.
600* La Malinche, a Nahua woman who lived in what is now Mexico, was given to the Spanish conquistadors as a "servant". She ended up serving Hernan Cortes as a translator and eventually became his mistress, and bore him a child.
601* Los Zetas, a major Mexican crime syndicate, has been known to [[http://www.insightcrime.org/slavery-in-latin-america/zetas-enslave-engineers-in-mexico kidnap telecom engineers]] to build and maintain their communications network. Unlike their usual kidnapping victims, ransoms are not offered and the victims are believed to be [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed when they have outlived their usefulness]].
602* The [[TheTheocracy Islamic State in Iraq and Levant]] has been known, and proclaimed publicly, to set up slave markets where female {{sex slave}}s captured from Yezidi communities were to be sold.
603* Similarly, Nigerian Islamic militants Boko Harem have grown to be notorious for capturing girls who are used as sex slaves.
604* This even happens in the animal kingdom: slave-making ants are so-called 'brood parasites'; they do seasonal raids on the ants of other species, snatch their larvae, and bring them back to their nest. The larvae are then inundated with pheromones to 'brainwash' them into slaves that do everything for the slaver ants, including mouth-to-mouth feeding them. Some species are so dependant on slaves that, without them, they would completely die out.
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