Apartheid
A typically government-enforced system that enshrined into law the forced racial segregation of two (or more) races
Chattel slavey
The system by which slaves and their children are treated as personal property and bought and sold on an open market.
Endemic
Something that is pervasive and lasts forever.
Grandeur
Something or someone of profound splendor and magnificence.
Inaugurate
To initiate something; to begin something new.
Indelible
Something that can't be erased or removed (from a collective consciousness, for example).
Osmosis
A slow process by which someone processes something (information, for example).
Perennial
Something that lasts for quite a long time.
Subordination
To put someone or something into a lower class than they currently are.
