servitude
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Sara suddenly found herself unwillingly living a life of servitude.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025
The Declaration proclaimed all men created equal, yet the new nation’s economy depended on enslaved labor in the South and indentured servitude in the North.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
Octavia Butler's fictional president, elected in November 2024, brings back indentured servitude and suspends all regulations.
From Salon • May 17, 2025
Proposition 6, the ballot measure that would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in prison, failed.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024
There are instruments and human players but sometimes a fiddle or a drum makes instruments of those who play them, and all are put in servitude to the song.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Vocabulary lists containing servitude
13th Amendment (1865)
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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