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to keep in servitude

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  • Servitude (BDSM) — In BDSM, servitude is performing tasks and following orders as an aspect of being submissive.Some submissives gain pleasure and satisfaction from performing services for their dominants, such as serving as a butler, waitress, chauffeur, maid, or… …   Wikipedia

  • Ritual servitude — OverviewRitual servitude is a practice in Ghana, Togo, and Benin where traditional religious shrines take human beings, usually young virgin girls in payment for services, or in religious atonement for alleged misdeeds of a family member almost… …   Wikipedia

  • Navigable servitude — is a United States constitutional doctrine that gives the federal government the right to regulate navigable waterways as an extension of the Commerce Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the constitution. It is also sometimes called federal… …   Wikipedia

  • To keep one's nose to the grindstone — Grindstone Grind stone , n. A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. [1913 Webster] {To hold one s nose to the grindstone}, {To bring one s nose to the grindstone}, to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Modern day slavery — Slavery in the United States was declared immoral and in 1865 the U.S. government created and drafted the 13th Amendment which freed existing slaves and made slavery illegal in the United States. Slavery which was abolished 143 years ago is… …   Wikipedia

  • Penal labour — Female convicts chained together by their necks for work on a road. Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika c.1890 1927. Penal labour is a form of unfree labour in which prisoners perform work, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard, depending… …   Wikipedia

  • Henry B. Brown and John M. Harlan: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) — ▪ Primary Source       By 1896 segregation in railway cars was in effect in all Southern states. In an effort to test the constitutionality of Louisiana s segregation laws, Homer A. Plessy, who was only one eighth African American and could… …   Universalium

  • Slavery in the United States — began soon after English colonists first settled Virginia in 1607 and lasted until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. Before the widespread establishment of chattel slavery, much labor was organized …   Wikipedia

  • china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …   Universalium

  • China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …   Universalium

  • United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …   Universalium

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