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indentured
(redirected from Indentured servant)

   Also found in: Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.03 sec.
indentured adjective apprenticed, articled, bound by agreement, bound by contract, contracted, engaged, enslaved, obligated, obliged, promised, tied down, under obligation
Associated concepts: indentured apprentice


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95) tells of a tough ten-year-old pickpocket in 1730s London who becomes an indentured servant to a Jewish family in New York City.
A few years before 1776, in Boston, a 14-year-old girl from Salem becomes an indentured servant in the home of General Gage and his family.
Fogleman, "From Slaves, Convicts, and Servants to Free Passengers: the Transformation of Immigration in the Era of the American Revolution," Journal of American History 85 (1998), 43-76; The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant, Susan E.
 
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