📚 noun • entry_id 51083
indentured servant
Meanings (ES + gloss)
esclavo temporario • esclavo temporáneo • laburante no abonado • siervo • trabajador no remunerado
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 t…
Probably the best known of these was John Harrower, whose journal provides a fascinating insight into the life of a schoolmaster and indentured servant in late colonial Virginia.[……
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