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
“Obviously the banjo’s got African roots too. Country music came from people in the South and Appalachia, slaves and indentured servants from Europe, each gathering and trading stories.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024
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
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
It is not clear whether they were slaves or indentured servants, which means they would have to work for a number of years and then they would be free.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
