An indenture is a legal contract that reflects or covers a debt or purchase obligation. It specifically refers to two types of practices: in historical...

Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years. The contract, called an...

The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers from British India were transported to labour...

The Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (TIA), codified at 15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa–77bbbb, supplements the Securities Act of 1933 in the case of the distribution of...

Indentured servitude in British America was the prominent system of labor in the British American colonies until it was eventually supplanted by slavery...

The Tripartite Indenture was an agreement made in February 1405 among Owain Glyndŵr, Edmund Mortimer, and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, agreeing...

Irish indentured servants were Irish people who became indentured servants in territories under the control of the British Empire, such as the British...

Indentured servitude in Pennsylvania (1682-1820s): The institution of indentured servitude has a significant place in the history of labor in Pennsylvania...

This is a list of people who were once indentured servants. George Abbitt Matthew Ashby Sally Brant William Buckland (architect) William Butten John Casor...

achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years and was granted...