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indentured servant

[in-den-cherd sur-vuhnt] / ɪnˈdɛn tʃərd ˈsɜr vənt /


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As the conversation gets rolling, she digs into her roots, explaining that her maternal grandmother was an illiterate indentured servant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

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

“My grandmother came here as an indentured servant and I couldn’t find anywhere that she even paid a fee,” Siebenaler said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2021

His plan for bringing prosperity to the white and Black indentured servant class was simple.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2021

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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