Sentences with 'servitude'
Example sentences and phrases with the word servitude and other words derived from it.
• « Despite the British ban on the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, the existing African-American slave population was maintained through natural reproduction and remained locked in a position of total legal servitude, enforced with brutal violence. »
• « The institution of slavery is not a recent phenomenon. Most civilisations have practised some form of slavery and human servitude, and African empires were no different. »
• « As in the European serf system, those who sought protection or relief from famine became the serfs of those who provided relief. Debt could also be repaid through a form of servitude. »
• « British Americans' reliance on indentured servitude and slavery to meet the demand for colonial labour helped give rise to a wealthy colonial class - gentry - in the Chesapeake tobacco colonies and elsewhere. »