Sentence examples similar to servitude status from inspiring English sources

Several laws dealt with indentured servitude, a legal status whereby a person would work off debts or be given training in exchange for a period of unrecompensed service.

I hated my mother's unwaged status, her servitude, her domesticity.

He and Sam had had any number of discussions on the subject, both as it applied to the civil rights movement and as it applied to what Clyde saw as their own status of indentured servitude in a business that was dominated by whites and governed by greed.

Furthermore, as social media diminishes us with not just information overload but the 24/7 servitude of liking, friending and status updating, this going under the radar reminds us that we might benefit from withdrawing the labour on which the founders of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have built their billions.

The Sophists concluded that true servitude was not a matter of status but a matter of spirit; thus, as Menander stated, "be free in the mind, although you are slave: and thus you will no longer be a slave".

Yet throughout history, whether it was slavery, servitude or torture, even the implication of this status entailed a form of abuse.

Male slaves had no paternal rights and female slaves were recognized as mothers only to the extent that their status doomed their children's fate to servitude in perpetuity.

Agriculture brought landownership, status hierarchies, and, most important for our considerations, servitude and slavery.

These people are the ones for whom the mechanism's current way of working - call it the status quo - offers a life of anguish and servitude.

Thus, because the stole is a yoke around the neck of the priest and he should rejoice in his servitude, on donning or doffing it he kisses the emblem of his servile status.

The routine sacrificial offering of human beings, usually prisoners from the Qiang tribe, as if they were sacrificial animals and the rarer practice of accompanying-in-death, in which 40 or more retainers, often of high status, were buried with a dead king, suggest the degree to which ties of affection, obligation, or servitude were thought to be stronger than life itself.