An indenture is a legal contract that reflects an agreement between two parties. Although the term is most familiarly used to refer to a labor contract...

Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years. The contract called an "indenture"...

The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers from British India were transported to labour...

Indentured servitude in British America was the prominent system of labor in the British American colonies until it was eventually supplanted by slavery...

The Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (TIA), codified at 15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa–77bbbb, supplements the Securities Act of 1933 in the case of the distribution of...

This is a list of people who were once indentured servants. George Abbitt Matthew Ashby Sally Brant William Buckland (architect) William Butten John Casor...

Irish indentured servants were Irish people who became indentured servants in territories under the control of the British Empire, such as the British...

Indentured servitude in Pennsylvania (1682-1820s): The institution of indentured servitude has a significant place in the history of labor in Pennsylvania...

The Tripartite Indenture was an agreement made in February 1405 among Owain Glyndŵr, Edmund Mortimer, and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, agreeing...

Indentured servitude in continental North America began in the Colony of Virginia in 1609. Initially created as means of funding voyages for European workers...

identity was created. The indentured workers originated mostly from rural village backgrounds. . The contracts of the indentured labourers, which they called...

Girmitiyas, (Bhojpuri: 𑂏𑂱𑂩𑂧𑂱𑂗𑂱𑂨𑂰) also known as Jahajis, were indentured labourers from British India transported to work on plantations in Fiji...

The Tripartite Indenture of 1856 was an agreement between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the City of Boston, and the Boston Water Power Company signed...

Coolie Woman (full title: Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture) is a book written by Gaiutra Bahadur and co-published in 2013 by Hurst and Company of...

achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years and was granted...

Indians (Chapter 133, Cal. Stats., April 22, 1850), nicknamed the Indian Indenture Act was enacted by the first session of the California State Legislature...

ghastly feature of indenture". Gokhale also raised an issue surrounding the expected number of women being forced into indenture. With every 100 men...

In the 18th century, the term more commonly referred to migrant Indian indentured labourers. In the 19th century, during the British colonial era, the term...

or the 1934 Act), SEC enforces the Securities Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers...

blackbirding, where South Sea Islanders were coerced or abducted into indentured labour, mainly by Queensland colonists. From 1886, Australian colonial...

The racially-divided southern Africa was inhabited by a large number of indentured labourers from India of whom Tamils were the majority. Rastus United States...

activity and pestilence throughout the war. A further 50,000 were sent into indentured servitude in the West Indies. Physician-general William Petty estimated...

Indians moved to Fiji to work as indentured labourers, especially on sugarcane plantations. Repatriation of indentured Indians from Fiji began on 3 May...

Dublin. Memorial: 1913-008-053. Registered: 04/02/1913. Memorial of an Indenture made the Twenty first day of January One thousand nine hundred and thirteen...

Murtagh and the rest of the prisoners are sent to the American colonies as indentured servants, while John paroles Jamie to work at a private estate called...

serfdom Abolition of slave trade in Persian gulf [fa] Related Common law Indentured servitude Forced labour Fugitive slaves laws convention Great Dismal Swamp...

Powell's younger brother, Henry, consisting of 80 settlers and 10 English indentured labourers. Some sources state that some Africans were amongst these first...

ancestry to India and the wider subcontinent. They are the descendants of indentured servants and settlers who migrated from India beginning in 1838, and continuing...

children of slave mothers were to be eventually liberated but to be held in indentured servitude until their mid-to-late twenties. Together with slaves freed...

fleeing Portuguese Brazil. At first, sugar was grown primarily using white indentured labour, but rising costs soon led English traders to embrace the use of...