indenture

Example Sentences

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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

Flood was instrumental in the elimination of MLB’s horrendous indenture of players and launched the players’ rights to negotiate contracts without the tether that owners held for too many years.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2021

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

He exposed one of the tricks the planters used to get around the terms of the indenture contract.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson