indentured laborers
Contract-bound workforce
Indentured laborers are workers bound by contract to serve an employer for a fixed period, typically in exchange for passage, housing, or training.
The system brought millions of Europeans to colonial America and later transported Asian workers to plantations worldwide after slavery's abolition.
Unlike slaves, indentured laborers had contractual end dates, but conditions were often brutal and rights minimal.
Her ancestors came as indentured laborers from India to work the sugar fields.
- contract lawRules governing binding agreements
- work contractBinding job terms document
- slaveryOwnership of people
- debt bondageCoerced labor repaying loans
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
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indentured laborersindependent contractors
Self-employed service providers
freelancers · entrepreneurs · business owners · employers · yeoman farmers
indentured laborerschattel slaves
Persons owned as movable property
slaves · freedmen · bondsmen · serfs · volunteers
indentured laborersplantation owners
Large-scale agricultural landholders
masters · capitalists · landowners · employers · proprietors
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