indentured servant
Example Sentences
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As the conversation gets rolling, she digs into her roots, explaining that her maternal grandmother was an illiterate indentured servant.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
A son of a once wealthy merchant family, Joyce was being sent to the West Indies to start his new life as an indentured servant.
From National Geographic • Jan. 11, 2024
And they want to exploit you for everything you're worth — which, to them, is what you can bring to the table as a corporate indentured servant.
From Salon • Jan. 13, 2022
One local example mentioned by the Colonial Williamsburg researchers is the story of an indentured servant named Thomas Hall, who was born female and raised in England as a girl named Thomasine Hall.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2019
Sambo had learned his trade from a Scottish convict turned indentured servant.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
