indentured servantin a sentence
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Most white immigrants to the American colonies were voluntary indentured servants up until The American Revolution.
indentured servants = someone who was bound by a signed or forced contract to work without wages for a period of time
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Or you could join the company's ever-growing ranks of indentured servants.
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indentured servants = people required to work for a period of time for only room and board (no wages)
- Indentured servitude would be better.† (source)
- In American History they've been studying how the United States was founded on indentured servitude.† (source)
- If all that mattered were the unfettered right to buy and sell, tainted food could not be kept off supermarket shelves, toxic waste could be dumped next door to elementary schools, and every American family could import an indentured servant ( or two), paying them with meals instead of money.† (source)
- He might have to rake the yard or clean the kitchen and take out the trash, but it wasn't as if her ex treated Ben like an indentured servant.† (source)
- He had contracted for 100,000 bricks, ordered specially made window frames from London, and in Philadelphia purchased the unexpired servitude of an indentured servant, a stonecutter, to do the columns.† (source)
- Linguists Guy Bailey and Patricia Cukor-Avila write that in the colonial period black slaves and white indentured servants often worked together, and relationships between the races were more fluid than later.† (source)
- Indentured servants complain all the time and steal us blind at the first opportunity.† (source)
- Sailors, tradesmen, mechanics in long leather aprons, journeymen printers, house-painters, sail-makers, indentured servants, black slave women, their heads wrapped in bright bandannas, free black stevedores and draymen, mixed together with Quaker merchants and the elegants of the city in their finery, everyone busy about something, and everyone, it seemed to visitors, unexpectedly friendly and polite.† (source)
- The Indentured Servant Protection Agency also used it to monitor and record my daily activities, to ensure that my human rights were being observed.† (source)
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- I assumed a fake identity and masqueraded as an indentured servant to infiltrate IOI's corporate headquarters.† (source)
- Then I selected the Indentured Servant Observation and Communications Tag control settings submenu, which operated both my eargear and security anklet.† (source)
- I had a thumbnail of my apartment building's external security camera feed at the edge of my display, so I saw the IOI Indentured Servant Retrieval Transport pull up out front, siren wailing and lights flashing.† (source)
- As I inched forward along the conveyor, flat-screen monitors mounted overhead showed the same ten-minute training film over and over, on an endless loop: "Indentured Servitude: Your Fast Track from Debt to Success!"† (source)
- Molly has decided to think of this job as indentured servitude: each hour she works is another hour closer to freedom.† (source)
- The Red Legs were a tribe of Scotch-Irish poor whites who had come to St. Hubert as indentured servants two hundred years before.† (source)
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