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  • Thumbnail for Indenture
    An indenture is a legal contract that reflects or covers a debt or purchase obligation. It specifically refers to two types of practices: in historical...
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    Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years. The contract, called an...
    40 KB (4,910 words) - 19:37, 11 May 2024
  • The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers from British India were transported to labour in...
    35 KB (4,096 words) - 17:12, 15 March 2024
  • Tripartite Indenture was an agreement made in February 1405 among Owain Glyndŵr, Edmund Mortimer, and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, agreeing to divide...
    3 KB (281 words) - 00:38, 22 November 2023
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    The Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (TIA), codified at 15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa–77bbbb, supplements the Securities Act of 1933 in the case of the distribution of...
    11 KB (1,095 words) - 19:05, 16 January 2024
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    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....
    30 KB (3,788 words) - 23:06, 26 April 2024
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    Indentured servitude in Pennsylvania (1682-1820s): The institution of indentured servitude has a significant place in the history of labor in Pennsylvania...
    47 KB (6,804 words) - 22:53, 30 December 2023
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    under indenture. By the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in 1775, only 2 to 3 percent of the colonial labor force was composed of indentured servants...
    62 KB (8,470 words) - 00:41, 15 February 2024
  • This is a list of people who were once indentured servants. George Abbitt Matthew Ashby Sally Brant William Buckland (architect) William Butten John Casor...
    1 KB (87 words) - 17:13, 15 March 2023
  • and 1916, a total of 42 ships made 87 voyages, carrying Indian indentured labourers to Fiji. Initially the ships brought labourers from Calcutta, but...
    16 KB (257 words) - 18:56, 20 January 2024
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    Anthony Johnson (colonist) (category American indentured servants)
    achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years and was granted...
    21 KB (2,360 words) - 00:14, 19 April 2024
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    Indians (Chapter 133, Cal. Stats., April 22, 1850), nicknamed the Indian Indenture Act was enacted by the first session of the California State Legislature...
    21 KB (2,736 words) - 23:46, 14 September 2023
  • Coolie Woman (full title: Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture) is a book written by Gaiutra Bahadur and co-published in 2013 by Hurst and Company of...
    9 KB (826 words) - 05:33, 24 December 2023
  • Girmityas (redirect from Indentured Indians)
    𑂏𑂱𑂩𑂧𑂱𑂗𑂱𑂨𑂰) also known as Jahajis, were indentured labourers from British India transported to work on plantations in Fiji, South Africa, Eastern...
    5 KB (386 words) - 04:51, 9 May 2024
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    Coolie (category History of immigration to the United States)
    traders across Asia. By the 18th century, the term referred to migrant Indian indentured labourers. In the 19th century, during the British colonial era...
    81 KB (9,451 words) - 05:45, 28 April 2024
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    "innocent people preferring death with their own hands to life under it", "were a ghastly feature of indenture". Gokhale also raised an issue surrounding the...
    27 KB (2,934 words) - 13:16, 29 March 2024
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    expressed to be thereby granted and conveyed were granted unto the Vendor and his heirs and assigns subject as therein And Reciting that by an Indenture of Lease...
    39 KB (5,120 words) - 02:53, 14 May 2024
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    as indentured servants, hiring themselves out as laborers for a fixed period to pay for their passage. In the early years the line between indentured servants...
    214 KB (19,266 words) - 14:08, 11 May 2024
  • Indo-Fijians (category Immigration to Fiji)
    knowledge of the terms of the indenture agreement and were aware of their rights and refused to do the heavy work assigned to them, their contract was terminated...
    45 KB (5,448 words) - 00:15, 9 May 2024
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    which created it, the SEC enforces the Securities Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers...
    69 KB (6,497 words) - 06:35, 16 April 2024
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