奴隷制

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 奴隷制 (どれいせい) adds system 制 to slave 奴隷, naming an institutional arrangement.
• Basic usage: It refers to the historical or social system of slavery, not to an individual person.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A system rather than a person
  • 奴隷制 commonly appears with discussion of its effects or abolition because its referent is the institution as a whole.