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

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

Then Hab must have remembered, too, the words of the indenture.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

Grisha indentures didn’t come cheap, and Hoede had three of them.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Generations before aspiring communicators began attending journalism schools, and centuries before some of them skipped formal training altogether and simply declared themselves online influencers, most future news professionals launched their careers as indentured apprentices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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

But the early modern economies in sugar, tobacco and gold generated empire-building profit for Europe and the early U.S. by means of enslavement and indentured servitude.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024

To me, indentured wealth feels like something that should be disbanded.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024

In 1896, an indentured worker in British Guiana who called himself Bechu began publishing a series of letters to the local newspaper, revealing the conditions on the sugar plantations—or “estates,” as they were called.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

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 Commons, John R. (John Rogers)

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 Commons, John R. (John Rogers)

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 Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)