"When a woman is locked in a sweatshop or trapped in a home as a domestic servant, alone and abused and incapable of leaving, that's slavery.
Rachel Fuchs, of Arizona State University, writes that women who committed infanticide in the nineteenth century "were generally young, single domestic servants... alone and lacking family support, filled with shame, afraid to dishonor themselves and their families, and abandoned by their lovers".
After debt repayments and investment in oil, there will be little left for the government to pay its army of public servants, let alone the country's twitchy soldiers.
In 1764, the Gentleman's Magazine reckoned there were 20,000 "negroe servants" in London alone.
He was a bachelor and, except for servants, he lived alone with gradually failing eyesight.
Guggenheim, a gregarious sixty-year-old who favors Indonesian shirts, was now living virtually alone, amid servants, in the palace.
His parents were away and he and his sister, Noni, 6, were alone with the servants.
How sad we are to accept the misery of his dying hours at home, abandoned and alone, except for servants.
When she was eighty-five her daughter decided that the old lady must no longer live alone with only servants to look after her, and moved for the summer next door.
The government owes pensioners and civil servants €2.4 billion in April alone, and the it may be forced to choose whether to shortchange its lenders or the Greek people who put it in power.
