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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

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




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