indentured

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There were many white slaves in the US in the early days -- indentured servants -- who practiced the model of working X years and then being free. amanda Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 07: 24 PM EST

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  • Any person bringing a child or indigent person into this county without being legally indentured, shall be prosecuted to the full extent of the law Within five minutes after reading the above notice I was on my way to our County Poor-house, three miles from town. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • A variant of your existing handset on a 24-month contract - Hello! apart from the fact that it has less scratches, the phone isn't going to be of any use anyway and 24-month contract is mobile carrier version of indentured slavery. —  British Blogs
  • The economic crisis is just one more battle in their ongoing war to establish the absolute dominance of a tiny, ultra-rich, hereditary minority over a population of impoverished, indentured, insecure cheap-labor serfs. —  Political Animal
  • Oliver Twist: Oliver grows up in abject poverty is sold into brutal indentured slavery, joins a gang of child thieves, his closest companion (Nancy) is brutally murdered saving him but then he finds love: fade out. —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • Trinidad's East Indian culture came to the island beginning May 30, 1845 with the arrival of indentured servants brought to fill a labor shortage created by the emancipation of the African slaves in 1838.
 

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