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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]
Half of an indenture document of 1723 showing the randomly cut edge at the top. 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 between an employer and a laborer with an indentured servant status, historically indentures were used for a variety of contracts, including transfers and rents of ...
Britain had a long history of penal servitude even before passage of the Penal Servitude Act of 1853, and routinely used convict labor to settle its conquests, either through penal colonies or by selling convicts to settlers to serve for a term of years as indentured servants. [citation needed]
White indentured servants usually worked for five to seven years and their masters provided them housing, food, and clothing. [2] [3] Saint-Domingue gradually increased its reliance on indentured servants (known as petits blanchets or engagés) and by 1789 about 6 percent of all white St. Dominicans were employed as labor on plantations along ...
The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers [1] from British India were transported to labour in European colonies, as a substitute for slave labour, following the abolition of the trade in the early 19th century.
A new federal lawsuit alleges that a now-closed Stockton boarding school violated a former student's Constitutional rights. Rebecca Randles, of Randles, Mata LLC, is representing former student P.H.
California will not consider amending its constitution to eliminate indentured servitude as a possible punishment for crime after Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration predicted that it could cost ...
Even though the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banned slavery, most of the African Americans were enslaved, some were indentured servants. [2] [3] Many of the slaveholders were influential men like civic and religious leaders, businessmen, and lawyers, [3] who sanctioned going around the law to keep their bondservants. [4]