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Recent Examples of indentured servant
Mattai’s multimedia objects, which examine the present-day legacy of her family’s past as indentured servants in Guyana, is thoughtful, colorful and complicated.
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John Wenzel, The Know, 24 Dec. 2019
As late as 1964, Bo and Lake Giles were still toiling like indentured servants.
—CBS News, 23 Dec. 2019
Before then, more families lived on farms, out of sight of surveillance, and children could be their parents’ little workers—indentured servants until adulthood.
—Lynne Tillman, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
At the time, the tobacco economy relied on white and black indentured servants with finite contracts and some rights under the law.
—Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2019
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John Wenzel, The Know, 24 Dec. 2019
As late as 1964, Bo and Lake Giles were still toiling like indentured servants.
—CBS News, 23 Dec. 2019
Before then, more families lived on farms, out of sight of surveillance, and children could be their parents’ little workers—indentured servants until adulthood.
—Lynne Tillman, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
At the time, the tobacco economy relied on white and black indentured servants with finite contracts and some rights under the law.
—Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2019
See All Example Sentences for indentured servant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indentured servant
servant
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The whole setup looks like a giant creature with an extremely dense and compact body, a long, protruding neck, and an almost-cute face — a little bit like Wall-E, and a little bit like the servant-pet-robot from Red Planet that turns on Val Kilmer and tries to murder him.—
Sophie Ansari,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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Of those who stay, more than eighty per cent work in the informal sector—as domestic servants, street hawkers, porters, cleaners.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Indentured servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indentured%20servant. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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