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Stop treating me like an indentured servant!
No, the word 'indentured' is the past participle, past tense of the verb to indenture. The past participle of the verb also functions as an adjective. The word 'indenture' is also a noun form, a word for an contract binding one person into the serve of another for a specified time; a word for an agreement; a word for a thing. The noun form of the verb to indenture is the gerund, indenturing.
An indentured servant is a person who agrees to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time.!!
Indentured servants, also known as bondsmen and bondswomen.
When the squinted her eyes from the sun's bright rays, it was obvious that her forehead had been indentured because when she went into the shade there were small white lines left behind.
Enslaved individuals were owned as property and had no freedom or rights, while indentured servants voluntarily entered into a contract to work for a set period in exchange for passage to a new place or other benefits. Enslaved individuals were often forcibly taken, while indentured servants typically agreed to the terms of their contract before beginning their service.
Indentured servants were free white people who were working off Passage to the new world. Slave were people who were owned by another person and were considered property and not human.
The prefix of indentured is the in.
the difference between an indentured servent and a slave is that an indentured servant only stays with the person for the amount of time that they (the person;people) desire. And a slave stays either for their whole life or until they are sold to another owner.
An "indentured servant". But often, after the passage fee was paid off, they were given another "bill" for their room and board! And when that was paid off, another "bill" for the additional room and board! In other words, the actually proper word was "slave".
Some synonyms for indentured servants include apprentices, bondmen, and bonded laborers.
Indentured servants were people who worked for a set period of time to pay off a debt, while apprentices were individuals who learned a skill or trade from a master craftsman in exchange for room and board. Indentured servants typically worked in various fields, whereas apprentices focused on gaining expertise in a specific craft.