indentured servants
Example Sentences
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Fifteen-year-old Joyce was captured along with everyone else onboard—a mix of other indentured servants, merchants, and crew–and taken to a slave market in Algiers to be sold at auction.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 11, 2024
They "brought with them their aristocratic ways and indentured servants," Turchin writes, although the latter were "soon replaced by imported Africans," with enormous historical consequences.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2023
Workers are not indentured servants, bound to continue laboring until any planned work stoppage would be as painless as possible for their master.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
In her dissent, Jackson wrote: “Workers are not indentured servants, bound to continue laboring until any planned work stoppage would be as painless as possible for their master.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
By the 1630s, most people in colonial Virginia—whether they had chosen their life or not—were indentured servants.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
