Sentence examples for indentured services from inspiring English sources

Money merchants, including the federal government acting as one, entice potential borrowers by lending first and demanding indentured services later.

But there was another well-traveled road to individual proprietorship that also provided a workforce: the system of contract labour known as indentured service.

When really the truth of the matter is they are in indentured service to the commercial interests of its business.

Everyone else must sign a contract of indentured service.

Indentured service in Igbo areas was described by Olaudah Equiano in his memoir.

Maybe if we sever a limb and hand it to the bank officer on a bed of lettuce and promise indentured service.

Following his triumph in the election, Jennings's and his anti-slavery allies were successful in enacting a legislative agenda that limited the territorial governor's authority and repealed an 1805 act regarding indentured service.

Our portion lays out clear rules about avoiding any kind of financial servitude, including prohibiting interest on loans (Lev 25 37), restricting service of indentured servants and laborers (Lev 25:40) and banning servitude of these types for the offspring of those stuck in it (Lev 25:41).

Further laws forbade a master from shortening the length of time of service required for his servant, and also confirmed that any indentured servants whose period of service began in England would still be required to complete their service while in Plymouth.

Every 50th year (seven Sabbath years) was a "Jubilee" year in which indentured servants were to be released from service and land was to revert to its original owners (Leviticus 25: 8-55).

Eschewing both the indentured slave-labour of David Hepworth's dubious public service ethic and the inimitable uniformity of Mark Ellen's house-style, this internet-welded community of interest has up to now sustained a remarkably unified and effective opposition to the Bauer proposals.