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indentured servants

NOUN

an unpaid immigrant servant

Synonyms

WEAK

articled servant bondslave bondsman chattel serf servant slave

Example Sentences

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They and their families are expendable indentured servants on a rock enrobed in perpetual darkness.

From Salon • Aug. 16, 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

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

The record shows that people who were indentured servants were often treated harshly and could be severely punished for breaking the agreement.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz