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
One of them, John Casar, got a nearby white planter to petition the county to free him from his indenture.
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2019
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
Gandhi saw indenture for what it was: “almost as bad as slavery. Like the slave the indentured labourer was the property of his master.”
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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