indentured servant
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indentured servant
noun indentured servants
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A debt bondage worker who is under contract of an employer for a specified period of time, in exchange for transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging, and other necessities.
He traced back to Alfred Standing, an indentured servant, or slave if you please, who was transported from England to the Virginia plantations in the days that were even old when the youthful Washington went a-surveying in the Pennsylvania wilderness.
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noun debt bondage worker
| Español | trabajador no remunerado, esclavo temporáneo, esclavo temporario, siervo, laburante no abonado |
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| 中文 | 契約傭工 /契约佣工 qìyuē yōnggōng, 契約傭僕 /契约佣仆 qìyuē yōngpū, 契約奴 /契约奴 qìyuēnú, 白奴 báinú |
| Deutsch | Vertragsknecht, Schuldknecht |
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title = {indentured servant},
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