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

Flood was instrumental in the elimination of MLB’s horrendous indenture of players and launched the players’ rights to negotiate contracts without the tether that owners held for too many years.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021

As a result, work itself becomes pay-to-play, and people without money have no choice but to sign indenture contracts.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2018

“The Grisha was a Corporalnik serving her indenture with Councilman Hoede’s household. He thought because she was a Healer and not a Heartrender, he was making the safe choice to test the parem.”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

By the end of the 1800s, only a quarter of the indentures sailed back to India after their five years were over.

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

The chief of staff job listing is either an “amazing opportunity” or indentured servitude, depending on whom you ask.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Both slavery and the system of indentured workers didn't end in Cuba until the late 19th Century.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024

In colonial America, both white and black people came as indentured servants, including some of those who sailed aboard the Mayflower.

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

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

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

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

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