indentured
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Waves of Indians migrated to East Africa around that time, as teachers, clerks, merchants and indentured workers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 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
CAL also found evidence of debt bondage, a form of forced labor that involves “recruitment fees,” often paid with a loan, with workers essentially indentured until their debts are settled.
From Salon • Apr. 2, 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
Initially, blacks brought to this country were not all enslaved; many were treated as indentured servants.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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