as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
the Fugitive Slave Act had the effect of returning enslaved people who had made it to freedom in the North to a brutal life of servitude in the South
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Does Meghan in the kitchen amount to domestic servitude?
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Mina Holland, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2025
Proposition 6 This measure would ban involuntary servitude and end mandatory work requirements for state prisoners.
—Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
Our protagonist is, once again, drifter Max Rockatansky (previously played by Mel Gibson, but now inhabited by Tom Hardy), who is captured and forced into servitude as a human blood bag for one of Joe’s warriors.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Instead of constitutional rights and freedoms, Ukraine has a martial law now, which effectively reduces citizens to a state of servitude.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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Mina Holland, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2025
Proposition 6 This measure would ban involuntary servitude and end mandatory work requirements for state prisoners.
—Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
Our protagonist is, once again, drifter Max Rockatansky (previously played by Mel Gibson, but now inhabited by Tom Hardy), who is captured and forced into servitude as a human blood bag for one of Joe’s warriors.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Instead of constitutional rights and freedoms, Ukraine has a martial law now, which effectively reduces citizens to a state of servitude.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Servitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servitude. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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