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    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...
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    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"...
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  • 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...
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  • The Tripartite Indenture was an agreement made in February 1405 among Owain Glyndŵr, Edmund Mortimer, and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, agreeing...
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    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...
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    Indentured servitude in British America was the prominent system of labor in the British American colonies until it was eventually supplanted by slavery...
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    Indentured servitude in Pennsylvania (1682-1820s): The institution of indentured servitude has a significant place in the history of labor in Pennsylvania...
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    Irish indentured servants were Irish people who became indentured servants in territories under the control of the British Empire, such as the British...
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    identity was created. The indentured workers originated mostly from rural village backgrounds. . The contracts of the indentured labourers, which they called...
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  • This is a list of people who were once indentured servants. George Abbitt Matthew Ashby Sally Brant William Buckland (architect) William Butten John Casor...
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  • Indentured servitude in continental North America began in the Colony of Virginia in 1609. Initially created as means of funding voyages for European workers...
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  • Girmitiyas, (Bhojpuri: 𑂏𑂱𑂩𑂧𑂱𑂗𑂱𑂨𑂰) also known as Jahajis, were indentured labourers from British India transported to work on plantations in Fiji...
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    Anthony Johnson (colonist) (category American indentured servants)
    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...
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    ghastly feature of indenture". Gokhale also raised an issue surrounding the expected number of women being forced into indenture. With every 100 men...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    blackbirding, where South Sea Islanders were coerced or abducted into indentured labour, mainly by Queensland colonists. From 1886, Australian colonial...
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  • The Tripartite Indenture of 1856 was an agreement between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the City of Boston, and the Boston Water Power Company signed...
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    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...
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    activity and pestilence throughout the war. A further 50,000 were sent into indentured servitude in the West Indies. Physician-general William Petty estimated...
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  • 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...
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  • Islands (USVI) arrived in the Danish colony of Saint Croix in June 1863 as indentured workers. However, the nearly all 325 Indians who came to Saint Croix left...
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    Indians (Chapter 133, Cal. Stats., April 22, 1850), nicknamed the Indian Indenture Act was enacted by the first session of the California State Legislature...
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    Powell's younger brother, Henry, consisting of 80 settlers and 10 English indentured labourers. Some sources state that some Africans were amongst these first...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • ancestry to the Indian subcontinent. They are descendants of the Jahaji indentured laborers from British India, who were brought by the British, Dutch, and...
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  • 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...
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    colonies in the Caribbean was filled by indentured laborers from the Indian subcontinent. Millions of enslaved or indentured laborers were brought to various...
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  • the indenture system and was one of the few people who, after indenture, prospered and made an attempt to help his less fortunate ex-indentured brethren...
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