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How to use indentured servant in a sentence

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Her story loosely mirrors the author's own experiences as the indentured servant of a mean-spirited and violent woman.
Since this approval process takes years, this system turns the employee into an indentured servant.
Mr. Speaker, I cannot let the member get away with calling this the indentured servant thing.
Sean Andrews, who portrays Mr. Loughery's Irish indentured servant, snorted.
Half soldier, half indentured servant, Michael goes on murderous errands whose purpose he never questions.
Slave, servant, indentured servant, serf, it all meant the same to me.
He's the equivalent of an indentured servant trying to pay back the debt that he owes to the traffickers.
I could hear the milk-maids' buckets clatter, the cows lowing in the dell, and the indentured servant boy's tortured cries as he was being flogged.
The demand for payment, written in spidery script, had been sent to a woman whose son was an indentured servant.
The headright system tried to solve the labor shortage by providing colonists with land for each indentured servant they transported to Virginia.
The girl becomes an indentured servant to the lord of the manor.
His circumstances had been such that he could easily have become an indentured servant himself, but he was simply lucky.
Sometimes, it's to be an indentured servant.
In 1666 he was engaged by the French West India Company and went to Tortuga, where he worked as an indentured servant for three years.
In 1654, John Casor, a black indentured servant in colonial Virginia, was the first man to be declared a slave in a civil case.
Parker, where the court ruled that John Casor, an indentured servant, be returned to Johnson who claimed that Casor belonged to him for his life.
Historians are undecided if the legal practice of slavery began there, since at least some of them had the status of indentured servant.
So, although Sharp was treated well, maybe even as part of the family, his status obviously was different from the typical white indentured servant.
If not, you'll be an indentured servant to MasterCard all your life.
A major difference between the servitude system of old and today's student loan system is that the indentured servant was free after a few predefined years.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This man had once been an indentured servant with Mr. Rolls, a sugar factor at the Barbados.
One was instigated by a perjurer and a heretic, the other by an indentured servant, in all probability from a convict ship.
It provided that no indentured servant should be sold into another government without the approval of at least one justice.
If the white woman were an indentured servant, she was constrained to serve an additional year.
The value of the Indian servant was about the same as that of the English indentured servant.
Perhaps there was an indentured servant who could teach her a little.
The lot of the indentured servant was not ordinarily a hard one.
Frances' teacher may have been her mother or an indentured servant.
The indentured servant could be held usually for but a few years.
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