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indentured servant

[in-den-cherd sur-vuhnt] / ɪnˈdɛn tʃərd ˈsɜr vənt /


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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

Banneker’s grandparents were said to have been an Englishwoman named Molly, who was a White indentured servant, and an enslaved Wolof man from Senegambia named Bana’ka.

From Washington Post Mar. 21, 2023

His plan for bringing prosperity to the white and Black indentured servant class was simple.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2021

Sambo had learned his trade from a Scottish convict turned indentured servant.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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