servility

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Noun
  • The tragedy of slavery is also explored here, including an award-winning exhibit called Slavery and Cotton in the Shoals with work by textile artist Valerie S. Goodwin.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 5 July 2025
  • Douglass’s decision to speak on July 5, deliberately after Independence Day celebrations, symbolically underscored his argument: America’s celebration of freedom was bitterly ironic and deeply hypocritical in the context of slavery and racial oppression.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • There was, however, a fateful exception: slavery or involuntary servitude would remain permissible as punishment for crimes.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 June 2025
  • Later that year, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2025
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“Servility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servility. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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