indentured servant
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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
In 1669, she sailed with a brother to St. Kitts in the West Indies and served eight years as an indentured servant.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2021
Bradford's genteel second wife Alice and the fiery Eleanor Billington, an Anglican woman and former indentured servant not interested in the least in submitting to "proper" Puritan customs, are the stars and focus of "Beheld."
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2020
An indentured servant was typically someone who agreed to work for several years in exchange for his or her passage, eventual freedom, and the promise of some land.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
