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
To me, indentured wealth feels like something that should be disbanded.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024
That option obviously doesn't exist in the middle of the ocean — or, for that matter, even in countries like Indonesia, where indentured servitude still exists.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 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
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