indenture

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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

He outsmarts his brother James to escape his indenture, but then arrives in Philadelphia with barely enough money to feed himself.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2022

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

Gandhi saw indenture for what it was: “almost as bad as slavery. Like the slave the indentured labourer was the property of his master.”

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