indentured servants
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The Bible had a solution for this: the tradition of Jubilee, a 50-year ritual of debt forgiveness, land restoration and the emancipation of slaves and indentured servants.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2025
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
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
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