indenture

In a little over a year, my three-decade indenture as a full-time laundress will come to an end.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

When Fiji de-criminalized the desertion of indenture contracts in 1916, it is little wonder that hundreds of workers left the colony's sugar plantations.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2023

He outsmarts his brother James to escape his indenture, but then arrives in Philadelphia with barely enough money to feed himself.

From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2022

One of them, John Casar, got a nearby white planter to petition the county to free him from his indenture.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2019

“Seven years to pay back yo’ indenture ain’t bad,” Teenie pointed out.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

Franklin Roosevelt had repudiated the so-called gold clauses in private and government bond indentures, aware that upholding payment in gold would have provoked widespread bankruptcies and devastated the federal budget.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023

The bonds themselves have been issued with a mix of terms and indentures.

From Reuters ● Mar. 15, 2022

Myrra Dal is a contract worker, one of thousands of people serving out indentures signed by their great-grandparents in exchange for passage off a dying Earth.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

Without radical change, all of our choices at home and as a nation will be increasingly driven by servicing these indentures from which there will be no redemption.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2020

“You had better be apprenticed at once. Would Gargery come here with you, and bring your indentures, do you think?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

The Freedmen’s Bureau used it to reunite 110 indentured children with their parents.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Mark Joseph Stern: Elizabeth Turner was 8 years old when she was indentured just two days after she and her mother ostensibly gained their freedom.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

The books take place in a galaxy where space travel is fast and many people live in indentured servitude to giant corporations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

Gandhi saw indenture for what it was: “almost as bad as slavery. Like the slave the indentured labourer was the property of his master.”

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

The R.A.F. conveniently provided a scholarship, indenturing him to air service later on.

From Time Magazine Archive

The indenturing of the Bechuana rebels was a subject upon which much was said on both sides.

From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

Working people of the colonial period were hoodwinked and kidnapped by shippers and speculators who reimbursed themselves by indenturing them to planters and farmers.

From Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons

When I was going to South Africa on the Norman the great question of the hour was the indenturing of the Bechuanaland rebels.

From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

The system of indenturing had long since disappeared, because legislatures and courts declined to recognize and enforce contracts for service.

From Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons