The phrase "indentured for" is correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where someone is obligated to work for a specific period of time in exchange for something, often a form of education or training. Example: He was indentured for five years to pay off the debt he owed for his medical school tuition.
The Gradual Emancipation Act of 1799 freed no one immediately; only children born to slaves after July 4, 1799, would be liberated, and they would remain indentured for many years.
Another key to his muscular drama is that Pope trained as a journalist; after being indentured for three years on the Ealing Gazette, he applied for a job on LWT's Six O'Clock Show, a regional magazine programme aired on Friday evenings, in 1983.
Men and children were "indentured" for $20. Women were given away.
And children born to slave mothers before July 4 , 1827 would be indentured for 21 years, so, theoretically, some blacks could remain in bondage until 1848.
Most settlers in Texas ignored the restrictions and instead converted their slaves to servants indentured for 99 years.
When the bride's family accepted the offerings, Mr. Apatiki, a skilled ivory carver and polar bear hunter, did what was required of him: he went to work for her family as a kind of indentured servant for a year, hunting seal, whale and polar bear, and doing chores.
So, in an effort to make it up to my ancestors who fought and died so I could have the opportunity to be an indentured servant for a college education just like all my white friends and work for a magazine where I can write posts like this but am not expected to write posts like this, I'd like to share with you my favorite Black History story.
So, in an effort to make it up to my ancestors who fought and died so I could have the opportunity to be an indentured servant for a college education just like all my white friends and work for a magazine where I can write posts like this but am not expected to write posts like this, I'd like to share with you my favourite Black History story.
He knew that his ancestors were driven off some of the most fertile land in Kenya to make way for white settlers, and that for years after they lived in grinding poverty as little better than indentured labour for the colonists.
Indentured labour for our times.
I don't think anybody should have to be an indentured servant for the rest of their lives".
