The Thirteenth Amendment, which went into effect in 1865, absolutely prohibited "slavery or involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.
A further statue of 1874 declared it a crime "to kidnap or carry away any other person with intent to hold him in involuntary servitude.
In all the present territory of the United States, north of the parallel of 36 30' of north latitude, Involuntary Servitude, except in punishment of crime, is prohibited.
And in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory north of said Missouri Compromise line, Slavery or involuntary servitude (except for crime) shall be prohibited.
They were not represented in the British Parliament, and, therefore, could not rightly be taxed by its legislation.
At what time the armed occupation of Washington City became a part of the Revolutionary Programme, is not certainly known.
Reject the olive branch and offer us the sword, and we accept it; we have not the slightest objection.
Upon that subject we feel as the great William Lowndes felt upon another important subject, the Presidency, which he said was neither to be sought nor declined.
And in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory north of the Missouri compromise line, slavery or involuntary servitude (except for crime) shall be prohibited.
But it did not belong in America, and the time came when the American people, after a long bitter war, crushed the slave power, and swept from our shores the last vestige of involuntary servitude.
The amendment permits imprisonment and also involuntary servitude as a penalty for failure to pay a fine imposed as a punishment.
That it might not be renewed, the people amended the Constitution so as forever to bar slavery or involuntary servitude except as men might be put in prison in punishment for crime after a full, fair trial.
And be it further enacted, That all persons held to involuntary servitude or labor in the States aforesaid are hereby emancipated and discharged therefrom, and they and their posterity shall be forever free.
Involuntary servitude is forever prohibited, and the freedom of all persons is guaranteed in said State.
A man is in a state of involuntary servitude when he is forced to do, or prevented from doing, a thing, not by the law of the State, but by the simple will of another.
Thus slavery, even as involuntary servitude, is cut up by the root.
Involuntary servitude, reduced to a science, existed in ancient Assyria and Babylon.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "involuntary servitude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
