John McWhorter

The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.

American Writer

Mike Bidlo

I like the relationship between the master and the student. Each piece has new problems, and each is different. They're all an indentured servitude. There's that subjugation that you have to put yourself under. It's a give and take. There is work involved, and during that time, the greatest things are revealed.

American Artist

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We can look at 1619, when Africans first came here, and how early African slaves intermixed pretty indiscriminately with indentured white servants.

American Journalist

Sydney Brenner

Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid... He's got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer.

British Scientist

Sam Seder

There's an argument that private debt, in some way, is creating indentured servants in our country. But public debt does not do that. In fact, public debt does the exact opposite - it relieves private debt.

Bryan Cranston

I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.

American Actor

Jill Lepore

As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.

American Historian

Roxane Gay

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.

Used in formal contexts involving written agreements, often between organizations or between individuals and organizations.

Legal Documents

Indicates that the parties involved have legal obligations that must be fulfilled as per the agreement.

Binding Terms

Often contains specific legal terms; understanding may require legal knowledge.

Technical Language

Refers to a literal dent or depression in a solid surface.

Physical Mark

Can describe the result of pressing an object into a malleable surface.

Impression Left

Some indentures are intentional design features, not accidental or unwanted.

Not Always Damage

Historically, it involved committing to work for someone for a set time, often without pay.

Historical Servitude

The period of service was usually several years under specific terms and conditions.

Long-Term Commitment

Trading labor for training was a way for young people to enter a trade or profession.

Early Career Start

 and then he was in debt to the gang, and was sort of an indentured servant for a while. So I have a couple minutes. Let me do one last thing I hadn't thought I'd have time to do, which is to talk about what we learned more generally about economics, from the study of the gang. So, economists tend to talk in technical words.

The freakonomics of...

 the emancipation act was gradual. Those who were currently enslaved were forced to serve a period of indentured servitude until their mid-20s. Throughout this period, enslavers repeatedly sold Baumfree, tearing her from her loved ones. Often, she was explicitly prevented from pursuing new relationships.

The electrifying...

 A popular origin suggests that it was used as a way to serve people of color who were forbidden to eat in cafes and restaurants. Nonwhite customers had to order their food to go at the door and the dense bread served as a robust and portable container. From indentured servitude to apartheid,

How India Influenced...

 The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land. American Natives were enslaved, but many died from new diseases, while others effectively resisted.

The Atlantic slave...

 to reduce child and indentured labor practices. Today, chocolate has established itself in the rituals of our modern culture. Due to its colonial association with native cultures, combined with the power of advertising, chocolate retains an aura of something sensual, decadent,

The history of chocolate...

 It was a way of appeasing the gods. Otherwise the rain wouldn't come, the sun wouldn't shine. Public executions. They were common, normal, legal. You used to take your kids to watch beheadings in the streets of Paris. One of the greatest wrongs, slavery, indentured servitude,

How technology changes...

 And when chickens get sick, some of them die. And you don't get paid for dead chickens, and Craig started to struggle to pay off his loan, he realized he made a mistake, but he was all but an indentured servant at this stage. When I met him, he was at a breaking point.

A lesson in turning...

 having signed a deed of indenture saying, "I'll work for nothing for five years. You just have to feed me." But at the end of it, you've got a hundred acres of land. That's the land grant on the bottom half of the slide. That's not possible in Latin America

Niall Ferguson: The 6...

 I don't know what you mean. Will you vouch for Duquet or give your word on his character? I take him here to my,, show him the path to becoming free, a landed man, and now he has fled the contract of his indenture,

What Sort of Man Are...

 that were working as basically indentured servants near our hotel, and so I stayed to photograph that. Now I'm helping them get a mobile medical unit. So, it's just wanting to give back even more

Indenture