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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]
South Asian Indentured Labor – Online Archive of Research and Resources – an online archive and living syllabus of text-based resources related to Indian indentureship, with country-specific resources and material related to global Indian indenture diasporas
Indentured servitude in the Americas (2 C, 17 P) I. Indian indenture ships to Fiji (43 P) Pages in category "Indentured servitude" The following 10 pages are in this ...
Indentured servitude in the Thirteen Colonies (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Indentured servitude in the Americas" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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.
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 ...
In 1669, Virginia enacted "An act about the casual killing of slaves" which declared that masters who killed slaves deemed resisting were exempt from felony charges. In 1670, they enacted a law prohibiting free Africans from purchasing servants who weren't also African.
This is a list of people who were once indentured servants. George Abbitt [1] Matthew Ashby [2] Sally Brant; William Buckland (architect) William Butten; John Casor; Judith Catchpole; William Ewen; Alexandre Exquemelin; Mary Morrell Folger; John Howland; Elizabeth Hubbard (Salem witch trials) Anthony Johnson (colonist) William Moraley ...