Her story loosely mirrors the author's own experiences as the indentured servant of a mean-spirited and violent woman. |
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Since this approval process takes years, this system turns the employee into an indentured servant. |
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Mr. Speaker, I cannot let the member get away with calling this the indentured servant thing. |
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Sean Andrews, who portrays Mr. Loughery's Irish indentured servant, snorted. |
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Half soldier, half indentured servant, Michael goes on murderous errands whose purpose he never questions. |
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Slave, servant, indentured servant, serf, it all meant the same to me. |
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He's the equivalent of an indentured servant trying to pay back the debt that he owes to the traffickers. |
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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. |
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The demand for payment, written in spidery script, had been sent to a woman whose son was an indentured servant. |
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The headright system tried to solve the labor shortage by providing colonists with land for each indentured servant they transported to Virginia. |
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The girl becomes an indentured servant to the lord of the manor. |
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His circumstances had been such that he could easily have become an indentured servant himself, but he was simply lucky. |
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Sometimes, it's to be an indentured servant. |
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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. |
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In 1654, John Casor, a black indentured servant in colonial Virginia, was the first man to be declared a slave in a civil case. |
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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. |
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Historians are undecided if the legal practice of slavery began there, since at least some of them had the status of indentured servant. |
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So, although Sharp was treated well, maybe even as part of the family, his status obviously was different from the typical white indentured servant. |
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If not, you'll be an indentured servant to MasterCard all your life. |
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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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When it seemed later that the cause of freedom would eventually triumph the proslavery element undertook to perpetuate slavery through a system of indentured servant labor. |
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One example is with Anthony Johnson, who argued with Robert Parker, another planter, over the status of John Casor, formerly an indentured servant of his. |
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