indentured servants
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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
They "brought with them their aristocratic ways and indentured servants," Turchin writes, although the latter were "soon replaced by imported Africans," with enormous historical consequences.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2023
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
In colonial America, both white and black people came as indentured servants, including some of those who sailed aboard the Mayflower.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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