Sentence examples for voluntary servitude from inspiring English sources

As everyone knows, there is nothing quite like voluntary servitude.

He undertook what he called this "voluntary servitude" along with his beloved mother (whose English was actually better than her son's) and his Manchester-born friend, Marie Nordlinger.

She had prepared a small zine for distribution at the protest, on the back of which was printed Étienne de La Boétie's essay "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude," from the sixteenth century.

"The rapid dominance resulting from British contact has fast turned many tribal people into state citizens who live lives of voluntary servitude far removed from their tribal duties and laws".

"Voluntary servitude" is the course that La Boétie recommends: obedience to the state or Church, with the inner understanding that this is a course we've chosen from social prudence, not from personal conviction.

Thanksgiving looks easy, and it probably was, back in those early feminist days before the idea of the perfect meal invaded the heads of otherwise accomplished women, convincing them that voluntary servitude in the kitchen was the secret of their liberation.

As it follows a 16-year-old boy and two girls, 12 and 14, through one harvest cycle, it depicts their lives as a more or less voluntary indentured servitude and provides a detailed, sometimes heartbreaking, mostly hopeless portrait of a permanent American underclass.

It held that although employers sometimes described their workers' entry into contract as voluntary, the servitude of peonage was always (by definition) involuntary.

This is not a modern form of indentured servitude, but a voluntary form of taxation, one that would make only the beneficiaries of a college education — not all taxpayers — pay for the costs of it.

As French notes, indentured servitude differed from slavery in that it was "theoretically voluntary," and families were allowed to stay together.

Peonage is sometimes classified as voluntary or involuntary, but this implies simply a difference in the mode of origin, but none in the character of the servitude.