servitude

• But there are many of us totally unsuited to this, brought up with ways and habits that would make such an existence something very like penal servitude--what will you do with us With this cry--for it became a cry--in my ears, I tried to go asleep. —  Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
• Ignorant even of the nature of the contract which binds them to servitude, the coolies are driven in crowds to the ship which is to transport them to another hemisphere; and they endure all the horrors of the "middle passage" during their long voyage When they arrive at their port of destination in the West Indies they are apprenticed for a term of years to the planters who need their services, and many of them succumb to the tropical climate and the severe labor in the cane field. —  The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
• I thank you, madam, but my servitude is for life The men my father will bring may not be the ordinary servants who come here to better their condition. —  Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia
• Thou subjectest sons to their parents in a kind of free servitude, and settest parents over their sons in a benignant rule.... Thou joinest together, not merely in society, but in a kind of fraternity, citizens with citizens, peoples with peoples, and in fact the whole race of men by a remembrance of their parentage. —  Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
• But this servitude is outward only, and abridges in no sort the liberty of private judgment. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II

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