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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Recent Examples of servitude Advertisement California Nevada just banned ‘slavery and involuntary servitude’ in prisons. Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025 The legislation also removes language authorizing slavery and involuntary servitude as possible criminal punishments. Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2025 And taken alongside the failure of Prop. 6, which would have ended involuntary servitude in prisons, Prop. 36 was taken as a signal that Californians attitudes toward crime are changing. Annika Merrilees, Sacramento Bee, 16 Jan. 2025 This is part of a national move to ban involuntary servitude in states whose constitutions still indicate the practice is legal. Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for servitude

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“Servitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servitude. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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