servitude

Example Sentences

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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

Involuntary servitude, however, is still in the Constitution.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 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