indentured servant

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Banneker’s grandparents were said to have been an Englishwoman named Molly, who was a White indentured servant, and an enslaved Wolof man from Senegambia named Bana’ka.

From Washington Post

“They include 25 enslaved people, as well as an infant and at least one indentured servant. Presumably, the infant was the child of one of the enslaved working on the new church.”

From Washington Post

The Maryland group included a Jesuit priest, Father Andrew White; the colony’s first governor, Leonard Calvert; and Mathias de Sousa, an indentured servant of African and Portuguese descent who later served in the legislative assembly of freemen.

From Washington Post

Twilight was born in Corinth in 1795, and rose above his childhood status as an indentured servant to attend and graduate from Middlebury College in 1823, Schultz said.

From Washington Times

You will do your patriotic part, as did your slave and indentured servant ancestors before you.

From Salon