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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Fulton County Reparations Task Force, a volunteer group in Georgia’s most populous county, recently submitted a 636-page report on the harms the municipality dealt through slavery and discrimination against Black residents.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
8 Jan. 2026 -
When Connecticut receives a report of human trafficking – or modern slavery – multiple agencies collaborate to determine the situation, rescue the victim and provide necessary services like housing, health care and mental health support, and prosecute the offender.—
Kaitlin McCallum,
Hartford Courant,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Usually, their earnings help — but when such women are trapped in servitude, those gaps become all but impossible to fill.—
Ladan Anoushfar,
CNN Money,
24 Nov. 2025
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While some people also practiced goddess worship or wiccan spiritualism, for many the witch was simply a cultural display of joy and a rejection of domestic servitude.—
Time,
Time,
21 Nov. 2025
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“Servility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servility. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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