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indentured servants

n. (indentured servant English)

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Two indentured servants would arrive in Salvation crippled, a third not arrive at all.

That manly bearing and days of wearying travel, of fruitless haggling had distracted her from contracts and netted her nothing more than a pair of indentured servants who were no couple.

Occasional families had owned slaves, but in a city they were much like indentured servants and were treated in the same way.

Some thought that she had several indentured servants, some thought only one or two-no one present had actually set foot in Rose Hall, but of course people said .

A few bribes at the Tax Docks, and the Satrap's treasury agents became very gullible, more than willing to believe that folk with tattooed faces and chained in coffles were indentured servants, not slaves at all.

Above the Chesapeake, the heaviest concentrations were in Rhode Island, New Jersey, and New York, where they worked under less oppressive conditions as farmhands, coachmen, butlers, maids, and so on, more as indentured servants than as slaves.

Except for slaves and indentured servants, most Americans also had a life in local politics.

The widow Richardson was left the farm to manage until Richardson’s two children were of age: she managed the indentured servants and the slaves, and brought in the tobacco crop, year in, year out.

The widow Richardson was left the farm to manage until Richardson's two children were of age: she managed the indentured servants and the slaves, and brought in the tobacco crop, year in, year out.

Beggars, vagabonds, indentured servants, kidnapped girls, even convicts, were sent to Jamestown and became the ancestors of some of the “.

And if those figures exceed about half the value of Epiphyte, which frankly wouldn't be very difficult, then we become indentured servants of the Dentist.

The workers were clones and indentured servants, paying off family debts that went back generations.

They wind up as indentured servants, prostitutes, exotic dancers, you name it.

Whorehouses, strip joints, sweatshops, even as indentured servants.