indentured servant
noun
: a person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance
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In every direction are street signs that bear the names of the town’s 19th century settlers, who were freeborn Black citizens, the formerly enslaved and indentured servants.
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Donna M. Owens, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2023
The outline represents Grace Wisher, a free Black child who was Pickersgill’s indentured servant and apprentice.
—Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 26 Aug. 2021
The tensions lie in the rancor between the colony’s Puritan community and the Anglican couple Eleanor and John Billington, who until recently were indentured servants.
—Samantha Harvey, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
No people or animals other than birds lived on the archipelago until Portuguese explorers discovered it in the early 15th century and populated it with minor gentry, indentured servants, slaves, and prisoners given the choice between jail and exile.
—Trish Lorenz, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2020
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Donna M. Owens, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2023
The outline represents Grace Wisher, a free Black child who was Pickersgill’s indentured servant and apprentice.
—Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 26 Aug. 2021
The tensions lie in the rancor between the colony’s Puritan community and the Anglican couple Eleanor and John Billington, who until recently were indentured servants.
—Samantha Harvey, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
No people or animals other than birds lived on the archipelago until Portuguese explorers discovered it in the early 15th century and populated it with minor gentry, indentured servants, slaves, and prisoners given the choice between jail and exile.
—Trish Lorenz, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2020
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“Indentured servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indentured%20servant. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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