kidnapped and sold into indentured labor in the American and Caribbean colonies (often without any indentures). Indentured servitude was also used by governments...

Indentured servitude in British America was the prominent system of labor in the British American colonies until it was eventually supplanted by slavery...

Indentured servitude in continental North America began in the Colony of Virginia in 1609. Initially created as means of funding voyages for European workers...

Irish indentured servants were Irish people who became indentured servants in territories under the control of the British Empire, such as the British...

Indentured servitude in Pennsylvania (1682-1820s): The institution of indentured servitude has a significant place in the history of labor in Pennsylvania...

labor or indentured servitude were much more cost-effective than slave labor. In principle the widespread implementation of indentured servitude on plantations...

extension of slavery and indentured servitude. In the 17th century, nearly two-thirds of English settlers came to North America as indentured servants. European...

people (such as serf, bordar, villein, vagabond, and slave) who were indentured or forced to labour without pay. During the Arab slave trade, Europeans...

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...

period of indentured servitude: to the age of 28 for males and to 25 for females. Slaves born before that date were redefined as indentured servants and...

Colonies were held under such contracts of limited indentured servitude. Except for those indentured for life, they were released after a contracted period...

Tuckahoe plantation Indentured servitude in the Americas Redemptioner Indentured servitude in Pennsylvania Indentured servitude in Virginia Mississippian...

to prove whether or not Chinese laborers were truly free agents. Indentured servitude, once the dominant form of emigration to the United States, had largely...

Palatines (Palatine German: Pälzer) were the citizens and princes of the Palatinates, Holy Roman States that served as capitals for the Holy Roman Emperor...

men who ran away with him received a lighter sentence of extended indentured servitude. For this reason, some historians consider John Punch the "first...

Delaware, and to a limited extent New Jersey, where chattel slavery and indentured servitude were finally ended by the Thirteenth Amendment in December 1865....

through the imposition of laws, from regulating indentured servitude to eventually making life-long servitude legal. Laws and practices limited the behavior...

Chinese Guyanese Chinese Surinamese Between 1853 and 1879, 14,000 Chinese indentured servants were imported to the British Caribbean as part of a larger system...

waive the right to quit. Cruel and unusual punishment Debt bondage Indentured servitude Peon Person Slavery Wage slavery "Constitution of Malaysia, as at...

arrangements have existed for all recorded history.[citation needed] Indentured servitude and slavery are not considered compatible with human rights or with...

Conscription Indentured servitude Involuntary servitude Penal servitude Service Service-oriented submission Slavery Servitude (Roman law) Equitable servitude, a...

Article 8 of the state's 1816 constitution, which also prohibited indentured servitude. The Indiana Supreme Court rulings related to Article 13 (exclusion...

It was thought to be a form of unfree labour. It was replaced by indentured servitude (Takobeya-rōdō (タコ部屋労働)). (Hard) penal labour does not exist in the...

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...

the tobacco they grew as rent to their landlord. This tenantry, indentured servitude of five years in return for passage, and family labor, reduced the...

1749–1754. More than half of their number was sold into indentured servitude. These indentured servants became known as "Redemptioners" as they would "redeem"...

of indentured servants and settlers who migrated from India beginning in 1838, and continuing during the British Raj. The vast majority of indentured labourers...

themselves into indentured servitude, to pay back the shipping company which had advanced the cost of their transatlantic voyage. British indentured servants...

pseudohistorical narrative that conflates the penal transportation and indentured servitude of Irish people during the 17th and 18th centuries, with the hereditary...

major driver of large migrations, some people voluntarily accepting indentured servitude and others forcibly imported as slaves. Grown in tropical and subtropical...