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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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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

For many years, indentured servants filled America’s need for workers.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis