| Yes, we should all live within our budget, even government, lest we all become indentured servants. |
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| It was also the day when indentured servants were given the day off to celebrate with their families. |
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| Two years later he died of swamp fever, the leader of a rebel army made up of former indentured servants. |
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| During construction, many men, indentured servants in the beginning, were blown apart during the blasting and digging. |
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| Though the people were spared a life of slavery, many of them ultimately came to the Americas as indentured servants, bound by contract to a specific term of unfree labor. |
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| When the colony could not attract enough indentured servants to export tobacco, it imported slaves. |
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| The inhabitants of slums, jails, poorhouses and orphanages were often shipped to the colonies, frequently as indentured servants. |
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| Using his wife and children as indentured servants, Allie clears the brush, plants a vegetable garden, and builds a house. |
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| Thus, they were brought into the country as indentured servants and were unable to leave their positions. |
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| Africans, who crossed the ocean as slaves, and immigrants from Europe, who came initially as indentured servants, added additional strands to the repeopling of the country. |
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| These people come to Canada with the hope of establishing themselves in Canada and are instead treated as indentured servants. |
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| In this era, considerable numbers of women and men came as indentured servants. |
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| While this was the ideal scenario, most home children simply served as indentured servants. |
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| That 15 trillion dollars of debt makes all Americans indentured servants, slaves now as our generations to follow will also be. |
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| Unskilled foreign workers have become indentured servants and often lack the knowledge necessary to change employment. |
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| The majority of early British settlers were indentured servants, who gained freedom after enough work to pay off their passage. |
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| Women were often vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, especially teenage girls who were indentured servants and lacking male protectors. |
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| Most of the indentured servants were teenagers from England with poor economic prospects at home. |
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| Some were sentenced to transportation to the Carolinas as indentured servants. |
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| As coastal land grew more expensive freed indentured servants pushed further west. |
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| Many Irish people were also transported to the island of Montserrat, to work as indentured servants or exiled prisoners. |
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| The first kidnapped Africans in English North America were classed as indentured servants and freed after seven years. |
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| Millions of individuals were forcibly transported to the Americas as slaves, prisoners or indentured servants. |
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| Certain classes of employees are indentured servants. |
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| They're employees, not indentured servants. |
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| Some of the workers compare themselves to indentured servants. |
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| They are indentured servants brought in, paid below minimum wage, and forced into conditions that have nothing to do with Canadian standards or the Labour Code. |
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| They are indentured servants here in Canada. |
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| I do not think anyone would object if those foreign workers actually were subject to Canadian labour standards and were not being treated like indentured servants. |
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| Instead of doing that, the Conservatives have decided that they want to import temporary foreign workers at lower wages and not subject to health and safety standards, essentially indentured servants. |
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| The Indian indentured servants that were brought over from India by different European powers, brought this dish to the West Indies. |
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| Native females served as indentured servants. |
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| But by the turn of the 18th century, African slaves were replacing indentured servants for cash crop labor, especially in southern regions. |
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| After Bacon's Rebellion, African slaves rapidly replaced indentured servants as Virginia's main labor force. |
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| China sent more indentured servants to European colonies, and around the same proportion returned to China. |
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| Many Europeans who arrived in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries came under contract as indentured servants. |
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| In the case of freed slaves of the United States, many became sharecroppers and indentured servants. |
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| One method to solve the shortage was through the usage of indentured servants. |
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| By the 1640s, legal documents started to define the changing nature of indentured servants and their status as servants. |
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| Such documented cases marked the transformation of Negroes from indentured servants into slaves. |
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| The status of indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland was similar to slavery. |
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| Most of the English colonists arrived as indentured servants, under contracts to work as laborers for a fixed period to pay for their passage. |
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| They obtained a contract from the sheriffs, and after the voyage to the colonies they sold the convicts as indentured servants. |
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| The very bony fish fed indentured servants, and sustained George Washington's desperate Delaware army. |
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| These indentured servants were young people who intended to become permanent residents. |
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| In some cases, convicted criminals were transported to the colonies as indentured servants, rather than being imprisoned. |
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| By 1750 Georgia authorized slavery in the state because they had been unable to secure enough indentured servants as laborers. |
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| The transition from indentured servants to slaves is cited to show that slaves offered greater profits to their owners. |
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| The relative price of slaves and indentured servants in the antebellum period did decrease. |
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| Although the prices of slaves relative to indentured servants declined, both got more expensive. |
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| India and China were the largest source of indentured servants during the colonial era. |
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| Between 1830 and 1930, around 30 million indentured servants migrated from India, and 24 million returned to India. |
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| Most laborers came from Britain as indentured servants, having signed contracts of indenture to pay with work for their passage, their upkeep and training, usually on a farm. |
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| By the 1640s and 1650s, several African families owned farms around Jamestown and some became wealthy by colonial standards and purchased indentured servants of their own. |
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| After 1700, most immigrants to Colonial America arrived as indentured servants, young unmarried men and women seeking a new life in a much richer environment. |
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| The indentured servants were not slaves, but were required to work for four to seven years in Virginia to pay the cost of their passage and maintenance. |
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| In the early years the line between indentured servants and African slaves or laborers was fluid, and the working classes often lived closely together. |
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| These Africans wrought a demographic revolution, replacing or joining with either the indigenous Caribs or the European settlers who were there as indentured servants. |
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| The kindergarchy was alive and well in the Carlyle household, with Alice centre stage and Mum and Dad both fretting about being reduced to the role of indentured servants. |
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| Regular contacts began with the transportation of indentured servants to the colony from Scotland, including prisoners taken in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. |
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| Mass emigration from Europe, including large numbers of indentured servants, and importation of African slaves largely replaced the indigenous peoples. |
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| Much of the population consisted of young, single, white indentured servants and, as such, the colonies lacked social cohesiveness, to a large degree. |
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