indenture
Apprentice's binding document
Indenture is a formal contract binding one party to service for another, historically used for apprentices and laborers who worked for a set period in exchange for passage, training, or eventual freedom.
The term comes from documents cut with jagged edges so the halves could be matched to verify authenticity.
Today indenture appears mainly in legal and historical contexts: indentured servants, The terms of his indenture lasted seven years.
To indenture someone is to bind them by such a contract.
Domination through foreign settlement
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
- colonial AmericaBritish North Atlantic settlements, pre-1776
Atlantic · seventeenth century · eighteenth century · transported · penal · convict · settler · New World
Shared position between parties
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- deedWritten property conveyance
- bondBinding tie or connection
- leaseTemporary use contract
pact · obligation · terms · clause · provision · stipulation · settlement · compact
Authority or controller
- journeymanQualified trade worker
- craftsmanSkilled manual worker
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
- tradeExchange of commodities
trainee · bondage · term · skill · workshop · artisan · vocation · learning
One who posts bail
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- passageSegment of text
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- colonialOf occupied territories
voyage · term · master · bound · unfree · exploitation · contract labor · tobacco
colonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
colonial America · Atlantic · seventeenth century · eighteenth century · transported · penal · convict · settler · New World · Britain
agreement
Shared position between parties
lease · pact · obligation · terms · clause · provision · stipulation · settlement · compact · arrangement
master
Authority or controller
- journeymanQualified trade worker
- craftsmanSkilled manual worker
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
trade · trainee · bondage · term · skill · workshop · artisan · vocation · learning · mentor
bondsman
One who posts bail
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- passageSegment of text
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
colonial · voyage · term · master · bound · unfree · exploitation · contract labor · tobacco · sugar
bondage
Involuntary subjugation to another
- creditorOne owed money
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- repaymentGiving back what's owed
default · debtor · labor · term · redemption · arrears · liability · bondsman · security · discharge
- apprenticeshipapprentice, trainee, intern, novice, mentee
- commitmentsvow, pledge, oath, vows, promise
- historical documentsDeclaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Emancipation Proclamation, Federalist Papers
- Apprenticeshipsjourneyman, master craftsman, mentee, on-the-job training, pre-apprenticeship
- binding agreementscovenant, treaty, pact, oath, pledge
- financial agreementsloan agreement, credit agreement, loan contract, promissory note, loan
indenturerelease
To let go
discharge · termination · cancellation · dissolution · disagreement
indentureprotuberance
Projection from a surface
protrusion · bulge · projection · convexity · bump
indenturefreedom
Absence of constraint
emancipation · liberty · manumission · self-employment · independence
- indentured servitudeContractual unfree labor for term
- indentured servantContract-bound unpaid laborer
- indentured laborWork obligation bound by contract
- indentured laborersWorkers bound by contract
- bond indentureContract governing debt securities
- indentured serviceContracted work obligation