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'''Indentured servitude''' is a form of [[Work (human activity)|labor]] in which a person is contracted to work without [[salary]] for a specific number of years. The contract, called an "[[indenture]]", may be entered voluntarily for purported eventual compensation or [[debt]] repayment, or imposed involuntarily as a [[Sentence (law)|judicial punishment]]. Many came with forged or no contract they ever saw.
Historically, for an [[apprenticeship]], when an apprentice worked with no pay for a master [[tradesman]] to learn a [[craft|trade]] (similar to a modern [[internship]]. This was often for a fixed length of time, usually seven years or less).
Many indentured servants were contracted for by American colonial Planters with the British government for so many men, women or children of various age groups. How these contracts were fulfilled wasn't important. Many quotas were met by kidnapping or duping such individuals into thinking they would have it easy in America, being promised gardens and orchards and houses, which were nonexistent, and what rewards they received at the end, little.
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