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indentured servant

noun as in an unpaid immigrant servant

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This state constitution outlined that existing indentured servants would remain in their contracts, and children born to them would be freed only at certain ages — women at 18, men at 21.

Hughson had in his service an indentured servant,—a girl of sixteen years,—named Mary Burton.

One was instigated by a perjurer and a heretic, the other by an indentured servant, in all probability from a convict ship.

It provided that no indentured servant should be sold into another government without the approval of at least one justice.

The planter navigated the boat himself unless he could provide a slave or an indentured servant.

The only books were two Bibles; the list mentions a single indentured servant.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to indentured servant, such as: articled servant, bondslave, bondsman, chattel, serf, and servant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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