servitude
slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude.
compulsory service or labor as a punishment for criminals: penal servitude.
Law. a right possessed by one person to use another's property.
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It brought disease, servitude and so many things that weren’t good for Wampanoags and other Indigenous cultures.
This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later. | Dana Hedgpeth | November 4, 2021 | Washington PostSingle women’s wage-earning was curtailed by a regime of compulsory servitude.
Pandemics have long created labor shortages. Here’s why. | Spencer Strub | June 3, 2021 | Washington PostThe hours are long and there’s a rank smell of indentured servitude.
Five Scientists on the Heroes Who Changed Their Lives - Issue 93: Forerunners | Alan Lightman, Hope Jahren, Robert Sapolsky, | December 2, 2020 | NautilusThis amendment prohibited denying a person to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
These women are exploited for several purposes, including labor, forced-marriage, and domestic servitude.
UN Report Says 29 Million Girls And Women Are Being Sold In Modern Slavery Right Now | D. N. | October 16, 2020 | No Straight News
If the indentured-servitude thesis is correct, it should be a pretty low number, right?
Trapped in the cycle of permanent emergency and perpetual action, he wrote, “servitude has no rest, agitation no pleasure.”
Hunter S. Thompson Was Right About America: It’s Still Freaks vs. Fear | James Poulos | February 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the rush to replace words with images may be preparing us for servitude.
The white Hempstead, for instance, worked his way out of indentured servitude, the next step up from slavery.
Was Slavery as Harmful in the North as It Was in the South? | Eric Herschthal | May 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“I tried to kill myself twice,” says Atia, now 14 and still living in servitude.
In South Sudan, Girls Are Given Away to Settle Family Feuds | Tom Rhodes | April 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut by the pleasure led,Of that sweet likeness, that allured me so,A long and heavy servitude to bear.
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi | Giacomo LeopardiThey require, and in many instances they merit, all that can be done to alleviate a situation of servitude.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyThe seigneurs imposed servitude, the friars preached resignation, and the people of Gaul became cowardly, selfish and cruel.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueOn the other hand they were likely to prove intractable and ungovernable, and many preferred even suicide to servitude.
The Private Life of the Romans | Harold Whetstone JohnstonIndifferent was M. Louis, for whom it was the last day of servitude, a slave become emancipated, rich enough to enjoy his ransom.
The Nabob | Alphonse Daudet
British Dictionary definitions for servitude
/ (ˈsɜːvɪˌtjuːd) /
the state or condition of a slave; bondage
the state or condition of being subjected to or dominated by a person or thing: servitude to drink
law a burden attaching to an estate for the benefit of an adjoining estate or of some definite person: See also easement
short for penal servitude
Origin of servitude
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