helot

How To Use helot In A Sentence

• Instead, for the sake of avarice, power and even religious helotism, the members of the U.N. allow villains who desire war to obtain nuclear technology and ignore their own resolutions to disarm terrorists. We Need a United United Nations
• Compulsory labour takes a considerable variety of forms, today as in the past - debt bondage, clientship, peonage, helotage, serfdom, chattel slavery, and so on.
• Sparta had also, in the late 8th century, defeated and annexed the territory of Messenia, its western neighbour, reducing its population to helotry and dividing its land among the full Spartiate citizens.
• The Spartans, he said, would never dare attack Attica with an Athenian army in their homeland, and an invasion would likely spur a revolt of the helots.
• He next persuaded Athens to send him with a large hoplite force to help Sparta against the helots, now in revolt.
• The alternative before white working men was to be driven with the African into helotry or to advance with him to freedom. Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 13
• Ancient and modern authors have found it very difficult to define helotism, because it was not considered to be an ordinary type of unfree labor.
• In addition to being super-exploited, Dubai's helots are also expected to be generally invisible.
• I also do not want to live in Sparta, transformed into a garrison society due to the need to suppress the helots. Cheers for a Two-Tier Society, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• African communities that had submitted to the Boer yoke earlier were rightless helots from amongst whom the Boer farmers could impress labourers. SPEECH DELIVERED BY Z PALLO JORDAAN - ANC MP DURING THE DEBATE ON THE PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS