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His appeal to latter-day fascists is limited, given that the early success of his regime led only to servitude and then total catastrophe.

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That also means that very soon Father will be freed from his servitude.

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Six seasons of TV and three feature films depict servitude as a benevolent state, sometimes verging on jolly.

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In 1870, the 15th Amendment prohibited the states from denying or abridging the right of citizens to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Their loss was a "systematic and deliberate" aspect of the oppression of the San and Khoekhoe peoples who were forced into servitude, he said.

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