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Revolution came under indentures. However, while almost half the European immigrants to the Thirteen Colonies were indentured servants, at any one time they were...

consistently for longer indentures. In an effort to persuade labourers to stay on, the Mauritius Government, in 1847, offered a gratuity of £2 to each labourer...

Thirteen Colonies arrived under indentures. Half a million Europeans, mostly young men, also went to the Caribbean under indenture to work on plantations. Fraud...

Indentures agreed to provide up to seven years of labor in return for passage to the New World and food, housing, and shelter during their indenture....

same ship as their indentured counterparts. For example, an advertisement in the Pennsylvania Gazette read: TO BE SOLD, THE Indentures of a few SERVANTS and...

the unskilled indentures who came before them. These new indentured servants were therefore less likely to cause revolts and the concerns of the gentry then...

according to their Indentures, and one whole year apiece after the time of their service is expired by their said indentures in recompense of his loss sustained...

farm using indentured servants. One of those servants, John Casor, would later become one of the first African men to be declared indentured for life....

under indentures which obligated them to work for no wages, until their land and sea transportation and other expenses had been covered. Because of abuse...

been much of a video-game player, but by the finale, I was ready to 'Leeroy Jenkins!' my way out of the theater". Ready Player One's depiction of a pop culture-dominated...

Guyanese nationals of Indian origin who trace their ancestry to India and the wider subcontinent. They are the descendants of indentured servants and settlers...

This is a timeline of the history of the area in present-day South Africa....

Indian indentured labourers. In the 19th century, during the British colonial era, the term was adopted for the transportation and employment of Asian...

an indentured labourer in Fiji and to his efforts to end the indenture system. He is one of the prime characters in Kamla Kant Tripathi's history based...

among one's 128 5×great-grandparents. Shriver estimates that 70% of white Americans have no African ancestors (in part because a high proportion of current...

of the terms listed below (such as "gringo", "yank", etc.) can be used in casual speech without any intention of causing offense. The connotation of a...

Protection of Indians (Chapter 133, Cal. Stats., April 22, 1850), nicknamed the Indian Indenture Act was enacted by the first session of the California...

his son. Another way to attain one's freedom was to run away, which made that person a fugitive slave. Both indentured servants and enslaved people ran...

dependent on that. III: If a servant who is being sold claims to have indentures (a legal contract), the master or owner can bring the servant before a...

The engagé system of indentured servitude existed in New France, the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the French West Indies from the 18th and 19th centuries...