as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
the joy that emancipation must have brought to people who had known only servility since birth
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Noun
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Harris said the comments coming on the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States were consistent with Trump’s most recent policies and practices working against people of color.—
Nicquel Terry Ellis,
CNN Money,
24 June 2025 -
Juneteenth is a federal holiday celebrated annually on June 19, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
23 June 2025
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Violence was the means by which slaveholders were able to get fellow human beings to submit to servitude, and Texans were willing to use it liberally.—
David Wright Faladé,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2025
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One viral fake news story, based on no evidence at all, said that Will Smith had sold one of his children into Combs’s servitude.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
3 June 2025
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“Servility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servility. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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