Synonyms:
servitude
Meaning: state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment; "penal servitude"
Usage examples
This system was called indentured servitude.
He stood it--to the tune of ten years' penal servitude.
In all these particulars Germanic slavery and Roman servitude are alike."
Many a one hath cast away his final worth when he hath cast away his servitude.
But when she had learned the truth,--a truth so unexpected,--then such servitude became impossible to her.
Mr. Benjamin was too clever for us both, and now he is going to have penal servitude for the rest of his life.
To the North, the proportion of slaves steadily diminished although chattel servitude was on the same legal footing as in the South.
When their weary years of servitude were over, if they survived, they might obtain land of their own or settle as free mechanics in the towns.
shall I know any better what they are for, when I am crushed by hardships and idiocy, and weak as an old man after twenty years' penal servitude?
I may add by the way that since then, very many persons have supposed, and even now maintain, that I was sent to penal servitude for the murder of my wife.