How to Use indentured servant in a Sentence

indentured servant

noun
  • Logan fixed the problem; Kendall is now, more or less, his indentured servant.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 2019-08-14
  • Johnson served out his contract and went on to run his own tobacco farm and hold his own indentured servants, among them Casor.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 2017-03-08
  • The fae work in lowly occupations, often as indentured servants to work off the cost of their passage to safety.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2019-09-03
  • So the indentured servants and other migrants from England had a brief but strong influence on Sranan.
    — Nicole Creanza, Scientific American, 2018-03-04
  • Individuals who sign up live in prison-like accommodations, eat scraps, and work as indentured servants for the rest of their lives.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 2018-07-07
  • Africans first appeared in Virginia in 1617 as indentured servants.
    — John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 2018-11-20
  • In the 1620s, tobacco in the southern British colonies was worked by indentured servants.
    — Steve Haycox, Alaska Dispatch News, 2017-08-25
  • This would also make the whole system less exploitative, so that moms like Kylia Carter didn't feel like their sons were treated like indentured servants.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 2018-05-13
  • By the end of the 17th century, the colonies’ reliance on indentured servants had shifted toward that of enslaved African people.
    — National Geographic, 2019-08-13
  • Rogers never misses a beat in a stellar and often frenetic portrayal as Mary, an indentured servant and the most fervently religious of the girls.
    — Patti Restivo, baltimoresun.com, 2019-11-01
  • Instead, these immigrants were deceived, overworked and unable to escape their hardship, essentially held as indentured servants.
    — Gene Baur, Fortune, 2018-06-08
  • Mary’s mother probably was an indentured servant from England, like 80 percent of all free women who immigrated to the Chesapeake at that time.
    — Marjoleine Kars, Washington Post, 2019-07-25
  • His grandparents moved to the South American nation around 1835 to work in the sugar industry – as indentured servants.
    — Adelaide Chen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2018-03-05
  • As a wealthy estate ruler named Don Lucas (Yan Collazo) nears his final days, indentured servants, love interests and distant relatives vie over what will remain of his riches.
    — OregonLive.com, 2018-02-12
  • Similarly, the enslavement of Africans in the South helped the region’s white indentured servants graduate into legal and political equality.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2018-05-03
  • Giannini’s fourth great-grandfather, Antonio Giannini, and his family came to the colonies from Italy in 1773 as indentured servants.
    — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 2018-03-21
  • European indentured servants, considered poor whites, who were given the opportunity to be overseers of plantations to keep slaves in line, now hauntingly echoes modern-day law enforcement taking over that overseer responsibility in society.
    — Jo Ann Zuniga, Houston Chronicle, 2018-05-09
  • Instead, the law subjected them to the far harsher provisions of Chapter 13, effectively turning borrowers into indentured servants of institutions like the credit card companies headquartered in Delaware.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 2019-06-10

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