What's the difference between servitude and slavery?

Servitude


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence.
  • (n.) Servants, collectively.
  • (n.) A right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
  • (2) But though he’s helped liberate thousands of kids from servitude (and into education), 13 million children still toil in India’s supply chain alone.
  • (3) £30,000 Agencies report that victims are being sold on, along with their debt, for as much as £30,000, to other traffickers for multiple exploitation, including sex trafficking, domestic servitude and cannabis cultivation.
  • (4) Not now, not then, not ever.” Other survivors were seated in the public gallery at the start of a nine-day hearing dominated by the voices of people sexually abused from as young as two and three years old, after the British government sent them away from their parents into domestic and labour servitude in Australia and other Commonwealth countries.
  • (5) Kate Roberts, of Kalayaan, said: “For employers who consider that they in effect own the worker they employ, it is certainly convenient that the UK law now prevents their employee challenging any exploitation or even escaping from a situation where they have been trafficked for domestic servitude.” In response to the criticism, Karen Bradley, the minister for modern slavery and organised crime, announced a separate independent review into tied visas, due to be completed in the summer.
  • (6) Parents are required to bring up children responsibly, while living in a form of servitude to licensed employers and petty line managers, often themselves at risk of returning to zero-hours.
  • (7) Sometimes we can make £400 in a day.” Mehari does it because he loves to travel – since he came to the UK from Eritrea, escaping the national service there which is, in effect, limitless servitude to the government with pocket money, he’s been everywhere.
  • (8) People are generally trafficked for sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, forced labour, begging and organ extraction.
  • (9) Count Plunkett, who has recently been disinterned, and Professor John MacNeill, who after a long sentence of penal servitude for his part in the 1916 rising shared the benefit of the general amnesty, led in the House as vice presidents of Sinn Fein.
  • (10) We recently had a client who was in domestic servitude, forced to work in a nail bar during the day and every evening taken to a brothel and exploited there all night.” Human traffickers may face life sentence under Britain's tough new slavery bill Read more Methods used to lure children from Vietnam to the UK are also becoming increasingly sophisticated, including use of social media.
  • (11) The Operation Imperial team is investigating alleged offences of slavery, servitude, forced labour, false imprisonment, kidnap and assaults.
  • (12) May said victims were held against their will and forced into a life of abuse, servitude and inhumane treatment.
  • (13) Common problems experienced by children – such as autism, epilepsy, dyslexia or even simple naughtiness – could trigger accusations, said Ariyo, with children living away from home or in domestic servitude most likely to be targeted.
  • (14) The amendment’s first section reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Warren, Michigan, March 2016.
  • (15) Trafficking in this region has become deeply engrained.” In the village of Kunuri, Deepti Minch, 19, describes her experience of being trafficked into domestic servitude in northern India’s Punjab state.
  • (16) Hyland told the Guardian that the huge numbers of displaced people heading for Europe were “easy prey” for traffickers trading in servitude and sexual exploitation.
  • (17) Why don't we call this policy by the name it really is, namely the indentured servitude of our young people.
  • (18) Balira was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for knowingly holding another in servitude and common assault and ordered to pay Mathias £3,000 in compensation.
  • (19) Every woman, being with child, who, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, shall unlawfully administer to herself any poison... or unlawfully use any instrument... shall be liable ... to be kept in penal servitude for life.
  • (20) Drawing powerfully on her own family history – her great-great- grandfather lived as a slave – she spoke of “the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.

Slavery


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.
  • (n.) A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.
  • (n.) The holding of slaves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
  • (2) "Women who are forced to become prostitutes via trafficking are examples of modern-day slavery."
  • (3) I’ve never had a black person or a brown person ever say anything bad about me.” Then he proceeded to make fresh contentious comments, first by repeating the comparison between slavery and welfare dependence: “Receiving welfare and housing – is that a sense of slavery when you get caught up in that and can’t get out of it for generations?
  • (4) The transformation of the global slave trade from a high-cost, slow-recruitment business to a low-cost, rapid-recruitment one is driving criminal interest in trafficking and slavery, which is why it is permeating every corner of the global economy.
  • (5) This year, after a generation of terminal decline, it won an award for stylish restoration that saved the birthplace of the seventh earl of Shaftesbury , the great 19th-century reformer who took up Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish slavery, and saw it through to victory.
  • (6) The report, based on testimonies and interviews with North Korean refugees in Seoul, London, Japan and Washington, compiled chilling evidences of crimes against humanity including forced starvation, torture, slavery and sexual violence .
  • (7) This summer’s shocking revelations about slavery in the Thai fishing industry , which supplies prawns to UK supermarkets, demonstrate that voluntary systems are failing to identify and eradicate these practices.
  • (8) David Denby in the New Yorker called it "easily the greatest feature film ever made about American slavery".
  • (9) The much anticipated landslide for Steve McQueen's powerful slavery drama 12 Years A Slave did not materialise, although it gained a single and respectfully prominent win as best film (drama).
  • (10) Very odd.” When it came to working in the US, making 12 Years a Slave, McQueen was adamant that he wouldn’t let the same thing happen again, particularly not on a film about slavery, of all things.
  • (11) In the 1860s, the fight between the North and the South was about slavery and the right of the Confederate states to maintain a dreaded institution that kept people of African descent in bondage.
  • (12) Human trafficking and slavery, particularly when children are the victims, not only deny fundamental human rights but also testify to an utter failure of our religions, cultures and civilisations.
  • (13) The New Yorker pronounced it "easily the greatest feature film ever made about American slavery".
  • (14) The TIP report offers a good starting point for establishing which products could be linked to slavery and human rights abuses.
  • (15) There is resentment that other historical French crimes, including slavery, are not given the same emphasis on the curriculum.
  • (16) It is modern slavery enforced not through shackles and whips, but by fiddled contracts, missing permits and paperwork and the Guardian has found it happening just down the road from the desert palace of Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Khalifa al-Thani.
  • (17) Meanwhile the state is under pressure to do more against trafficking and sexual slavery.
  • (18) The NCA figures were published as the Home Office prepares to put its modern slavery bill to the Lords this year.
  • (19) However, human rights groups claim too little progress has been made on sweeping away the kafala system that bonds labourers to their employer and has been likened to modern slavery.
  • (20) By escaping slavery and helping many others do the same,” the writer Feminista Jones argued in the Washington Post , “Tubman became historic for essentially stealing ‘property’.