indentured servant

Sambo had learned his trade from a Scottish convict turned indentured servant.

Her father was a white indentured servant, a tailor named Andrew Judge, who had come to America from Leeds, England, in 1772 and gained his freedom after fulfilling the terms of his four-year contract at Mount Vernon.

An indentured servant was typically someone who agreed to work for several years in exchange for his or her passage, eventual freedom, and the promise of some land.

A son of a once wealthy merchant family, Joyce was being sent to the West Indies to start his new life as an indentured servant.

Ashley McMahan, Hyunji Lee’s attorney, said her client was treated like an “indentured servant” by the other defendants.