indentured servant

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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

But when she gets kidnapped to work as an indentured servant at the Imperial Palace, she starts making a name for herself with her scientific know-how and talents at deduction.

From Salon

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

From Literature

An indentured servant was typically someone who agreed to work for several years in exchange for his or her passage, eventual freedom, and the promise of some land.

From Literature

Her father was a white indentured servant, a tailor named Andrew Judge, who had come to America from Leeds, England, in 1772 and gained his freedom after fulfilling the terms of his four-year contract at Mount Vernon.

From Literature