indentured servant
a master
The contract of work in exchange for passage to America was known as indentured servitude. A person signed a paper agreeing to work for someone a certain number of years in exchange for a ticket to the New World.
A person who trades labor for passage is called
Offeror
An indentured servant is a person who works for a specified period of time to pay off a debt or secure passage to a new country. They are under contract to work for their master in exchange for something, such as land, education, or training.
.An Indentured Servant
They are called a Signatory.
The contract is the indenture servant program. The indenture servant would sign a contract for passage to America, In return, the indenture would work for seven years to the person or company to pay the debt.
That person would be the attorney-in-fact under a Power of Attorney.
stowaway
An indentured servant
The learning position is called an apprentice. An apprentice helped the master and learned the trade himself.Someone contracted to servitude was an indentured servant-- in colonial days this was someone who was advanced the cost of his passage to the colonies and would then work off his debt.