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 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 The novel follows Benedict's romance with Sophie, a young woman from a noble background who has been reduced to servitude. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025 Does Meghan in the kitchen amount to domestic servitude? Mina Holland, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for servitude
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  • Plan an off-season visit for late July and early August to coincide with Antigua's nearly two-week-long carnival, which celebrates the end of slavery.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
  • Others online pointed out that Lively once boasted about her and husband Ryan Reynolds getting married in 2012 on a Southern plantation with a history of slavery.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Servitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servitude. Accessed 15 May. 2025.

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