indenture

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

Instead, Said found a Russian to take over his indenture, Nicholas Vassilievich Trubetzkoy, a 22-year-old godson of Czar Nicholas, who taught him Russian.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

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

After their period of indenture was over, they were released, if they were still alive.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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 ● May 15, 2023

The bonds themselves have been issued with a mix of terms and indentures.

From Reuters ● Mar. 15, 2022

Myrra Dal is a contract worker, one of thousands of people serving out indentures signed by their great-grandparents in exchange for passage off a dying Earth.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

Without radical change, all of our choices at home and as a nation will be increasingly driven by servicing these indentures from which there will be no redemption.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2020

During Ravka’s civil war, a lot of Grisha had fled the fighting and paid their way to Kerch by becoming indentures without realizing that they’d essentially sold themselves into slavery.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Both slavery and the system of indentured workers didn't end in Cuba until the late 19th Century.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Mark Joseph Stern: Elizabeth Turner was 8 years old when she was indentured just two days after she and her mother ostensibly gained their freedom.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

“Obviously the banjo’s got African roots too. Country music came from people in the South and Appalachia, slaves and indentured servants from Europe, each gathering and trading stories.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024

Like Koffi, Sahel had been a beastkeeper indentured to the Night Zoo, which meant he’d had little money in life and likely had even less in death.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

The R.A.F. conveniently provided a scholarship, indenturing him to air service later on.

From Time Magazine Archive

When I was going to South Africa on the Norman the great question of the hour was the indenturing of the Bechuanaland rebels.

From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

The indenturing of the Bechuana rebels was a subject upon which much was said on both sides.

From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

Working people of the colonial period were hoodwinked and kidnapped by shippers and speculators who reimbursed themselves by indenturing them to planters and farmers.

From Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons

The system of indenturing had long since disappeared, because legislatures and courts declined to recognize and enforce contracts for service.

From Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons