Involuntary servitude is the condition of a person laboring to benefit another against his will due to coercive influence directed toward him. While laboring to benefit another occurs in the condition of slavery, involuntary servitude does not connote the complete lack of freedom that is commonly referred to as slavery.

The thirteenth amendment to the United States Constitution makes involuntary servitude illegal under any United States jurisdiction whether at the hands of the U.S. government or in the private sphere (unless as punishment for a crime): "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction".

See also

Slavery