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servility

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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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“Servility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servility. Accessed 8 Dec. 2022.

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