indenture
Example Sentences
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The Declaration proclaimed all men created equal, yet the new nation’s economy depended on enslaved labor in the South and indentured servitude in the North.
Franklin Roosevelt had repudiated the so-called gold clauses in private and government bond indentures, aware that upholding payment in gold would have provoked widespread bankruptcies and devastated the federal budget.
From Los Angeles Times
Despite entering the union as a free state, California’s first Legislature passed a law in 1850 to legalize indentured servitude of Native children.
From Los Angeles Times
“You have at every stage facilitated this modern-day indentured servitude of children,” Mr. Hawley yelled.
From New York Times
Webster imagines her ancestor’s work as a milkmaid, the trial and her ultimate indenture on a plantation in Maryland where Molly met Bana’ka, the enslaved man who became the father of her children.
From Washington Post
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