indenture

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In a little over a year, my three-decade indenture as a full-time laundress will come to an end.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2024

When Fiji de-criminalized the desertion of indenture contracts in 1916, it is little wonder that hundreds of workers left the colony's sugar plantations.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2023

He outsmarts his brother James to escape his indenture, but then arrives in Philadelphia with barely enough money to feed himself.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2022

One of them, John Casar, got a nearby white planter to petition the county to free him from his indenture.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2019

A normal indenture was seven years, but she had to pay off the debts of her parents, and the only way she was allowed to do that was to sign up for a double indenture.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper