Definition of "helotry" []

• The condition of serfdom. (noun)
• Helots considered as a group. (noun)

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• "But in a 19-year war, Sparta finally defeated the Messenians and reintroduced helotry."
• "It would be worth his while to keep his commercial helotry supplied with sceptical literature."
• "The alternative before white working men was to be driven with the African into helotry or to advance with him to freedom."