indentured
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Living in Guadeloupe, Ms. Sinnapah Mary is an Afro-Caribbean artist who is also the descendant of Indian indentured workers brought to the island by the French after slavery ended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
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
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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