indenture

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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

An original 18th-century indenture contract hangs on the wall as an example of the one Sullivan probably signed.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2018

After their period of indenture was over, they were released, if they were still alive.

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