However, by the 1690s, indentured servants were not getting land as much.

In the 17th and early 18th century, most people who came to America were indentured servants.

That doesn't make them indentured servants to the Clinton family.

China will be happy to sign us on as indentured servants, though.

Large numbers of young men and women came alone as indentured servants.

At first, indentured servants were used as the needed labor.

The term was also used for many of the indentured servants.

Then she went in as an indentured servant to a big farm.

I don't think I'll end your indentured servant status with hands like that.

At age 12 he may not have been a very attractive indentured servant.

Then I talked with some of them, and learned they're mostly indentured servants.

Does this mean you’re actually an indentured servant on February 29?

He was freed after seven years and became an indentured servant.

As a result, the cost of indentured servants rose substantially.

Instead they were the reason a man was dead, and I had been transformed into an indentured servant.

It was common for indentured servants to earn their freedom.

In these early days, the majority of settlers were indentured servants.

Or an indentured servant, at the very least, bound to a term of service over which you have no control.

I want to be an equal contributor, not an indentured servant.

There were also a number of indentured servants among the colonists.

Some illegal immigrants say they feel like indentured servants during that period.

Some blacks, in time, even had whites as their own indentured servants.

They came as indentured servants and were often treated little better than slaves.

Women, indentured servants and children were neither allowed at the meetings nor given any political power.

By the 18th century, indentured servants became less common.

Sometimes it took 20 years to pay off their debt as indentured laborers.

There was also an immigration of Chinese indentured laborers later in the 19th century.

All of their ancestors arrived in the 19th century as indentured laborers.

Any indentured laborer who left before the contract ended was considered a criminal and subject to a prison term.

Nearly 200 people were hanged, and more than 800 transported to the colonies as indentured laborers.

While the first Chinese entered as indentured laborers from Cuba, the majority came in the early-20th century.

Many arrived in Singapore as impoverished indentured laborers.

Chinese had been imported as indentured laborers.

Under white rule, migrants from Mozambique and other countries were once solicited as indentured laborers in the mines.

In the later 17th and 18th centuries, economic conditions improved in England, so the supply of indentured laborers decreased.

Indians were brought by the British to work as indentured laborers, but Indian immigration virtually ceased after the 1920's.

Indentured laborers from India started to arrive in Martinique in 1853.

As the flow of indentured laborers to the colony decreased with improving economic conditions in England, more slaves were imported for labor.

By the 1860's, agriculture and sugar plantations were thriving, in large part due to the importing of indentured laborers from India.

This began in the latter part of the nineteenth century when Indian immigration of indentured laborers began.

(His grandfather emigrated from India as an indentured laborer.)

In the 1880s indentured laborers were imported into North America to build the transcontinental railroads and to provide labor for the forest industry.

By then, an estimated 450,000 indentured laborers from India had passed through the Immigration Depot throughout its existence.

In the early colonial years, social boundaries were fluid between indentured laborers and slaves, and there was considerable intermarriage.

The population of about 10,000 people is primarily descendants of indentured laborers who were brought to Guyana from India in the mid-1830s.

Guyana’s two main ethnic groups are the descendants of East Indian indentured laborers and those of African slaves.

Chinese came to Mississippi as indentured laborers from Cuba during the 1870s, with others coming from mainland China in the later 19th century.

Historically, the indentured laborers who came from India brought with them the form of authentic Indian Classical Music.

On the labor-intensives tobacco plantations, planters replaced indentured laborers with slaves, who also served as household and skilled workers.

After slavery was abolished, there was high demand for indentured laborers from South Asia (in particular India).