Originally Posted by
shikamaru
Class. If you prefer, try the term ESTATE.
Start with Bouvier's Law Dictionary (1856) concerning the term ESTATE.
And you make a classical mistake concerning SERVITUDE.
Slavery is A form of SERVITUDE, not the form.
There are a wide variety of forms of servitude of which slavery is but one.
And you miss the boat yet again.
The name of the game is SERVITUDE in ALL its forms both great and small.
Another error.
Ask a seamen on shore leave if he has freedom or liberty and if the terms are synonymous.
It's your prerogative to remain in ignorance of the etymology of terms if you so chose.