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Indentured servants could not marry without the permission of their master, were frequently subject to physical punishment, and did not receive legal favor from the courts. Female indentured servants in particular might be raped and/or sexually abused by their masters. If children were produced the labour would be extended by two years. [14]
In a later test of this interpretation, the administrator of Lower Canada, Sir James Kempt, refused in 1829 a request from the U.S. government to return an escaped slave, informing that fugitives might be given up only when the crime in question was also a crime in Lower Canada: "The state of slavery is not recognized by the Law of Canada ...
With William Grinstead acting as her attorney, Key sued the estate over her status, saying she was an indentured servant who had served past her term and that her son was thus freeborn. [2] At 25, Elizabeth had been a servant for a total of 19 years, having served 15 years with Mottram.
The lawsuit asks for eight counts to be levied against the defendants, including violation of a U.S. code that prohibits human trafficking, slavery, indentured servitude and peonage.
In late 16th century Japan, "unfree labour" or slavery was officially banned; but forms of contract and indentured labour persisted alongside the period's penal codes' forced labour. Somewhat later, the Edo period 's penal laws prescribed "non-free labour" for the immediate families of executed criminals in Article 17 of the Gotōke reijō ...
Voluntary servitude in this case was integral in the practice of education. In medieval Russia, self-sale was the main source of slaves. [ 10 ] However, as two of the reasons for self-sale in Russian history were avoidance of the military draft and avoidance of poll taxes, also known as soul taxes, it is questionable how voluntary this sort of ...
It is the first documented case of a black man sentenced to lifetime servitude and is considered one of the first legal cases to make a racial distinction between black and white indentured servants. [136] [137] After 1640, planters started to ignore the expiration of indentured contracts and keep their servants as slaves for life.
At the end of his period of indentured servitude, Gardner became a merchant's agent, shipping agent, and merchant seaman. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 11 ] As a merchant's agent, Gardner would handle business for several well known historical figures, including James Madison and Thomas Jefferson . [ 13 ]