Wiktionary
n. A debt bondage worker who is under contract of an employer for a specified period of time, in exchange for transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging and other necessities.
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Indentured servitude or indentured labor is any system of unfree labor under which an employee (indenturee) is bound by a contract ( indenture) to work for a particular employer, for a fixed period of time. The employer is often permitted to assign the labor of an indenturee to a third party. Indenturees usually enter into an indenture for a specific payment or other benefit, or to meet a legal obligation, such as debt bondage. In many countries, systems of indentured labor have been outlawed.
Usage examples of "indentured servant".
He had contracted for 100,000 bricks, ordered specially made window frames from London, and in Philadelphia purchased the unexpired servitude of an indentured servant, a stonecutter, to do the columns.
Elodie Marguerite Helene de Vonnange-Lassignac was about to be flagellated by her own indentured servant - a humiliation beyond name.
Soulez considered the creature as much an indentured servant as a minion.
In his entire life up to now, and he was thirty-five years old that year, he had never worked for wages, always as an indentured servant.
I want every indentured servant and slave on this plantation to be an expert, and if we can’.
A healthy young male of any race could be sold as a slave or indentured servant in the West Indies for upward of two hundred pounds.
But as he could not call her a slave in Bingtown, he took her as indentured servant.
Here in Bingtown, she was genteelly referred to as an indentured servant.
A onetime bookkeeper who had been obliged to sell himself as an indentured servant, Mr.
The Church at least has laws that govern how slaves are treated, and an indentured servant has the hope of buying himself free.
With Needham was a young indentured servant, Gabriel Arthur, who was left behind to learn the Cherokee language.