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

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

“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

A son of a once wealthy merchant family, Joyce was being sent to the West Indies to start his new life as an indentured servant.

From National Geographic • Jan. 11, 2024

Sambo had learned his trade from a Scottish convict turned indentured servant.

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