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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Born into slavery in 1850, Goode was freed at the end of the Civil War in 1865 and moved to Chicago.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025 -
David Bond offered a class called The Atlantic World, much of which involved the history of slavery and the slave trade.—
Brooke Allen,
New Yorker,
12 July 2025
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There was, however, a fateful exception: slavery or involuntary servitude would remain permissible as punishment for crimes.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
30 June 2025
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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 30 Jul. 2025.
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