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
Many women left the punitive existence of domestic servitude and escaped to the booming city by the sea.
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Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2025
The people are crying out for relief from medical servitude and the Trump administration keeps doubling down on the oppression.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
The main character escapes servitude and arrives at a space station called the Eye, where different factions are fighting for both survival and freedom.
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 20 Mar. 2025
There’s also another attempt to ban involuntary servitude.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2025
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Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2025
The people are crying out for relief from medical servitude and the Trump administration keeps doubling down on the oppression.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
The main character escapes servitude and arrives at a space station called the Eye, where different factions are fighting for both survival and freedom.
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 20 Mar. 2025
There’s also another attempt to ban involuntary servitude.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for servitude
slavery
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The festival also revealed programming in honor of Juneteenth — the day, now a federal holiday, that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
30 May 2025
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The outlet reports that the images were obtained by the university for Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz to use as evidence for a discredited pseudoscientific theory of Black racial inferiority in defense of slavery.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
29 May 2025
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“Servitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servitude. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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