For example, there were even colonial laws that said when [white indentured servants] were done with their indentured service, their masters were required to provide them with some compensation and a functioning musket.
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Singh's great grandfather, Laxman Singh, was an Indian indentured laborer.
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In most places that took indentured labourers, racial animus persists.
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Northam is actually correct about indentured servants arriving in 1619.
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"It's indentured slavery," she says down the phone from Paris.
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"It was indentured servitude, and it still is," he said.
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Other former indentured labourers were also able to buy broke colonists out.
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In return for this indentured consumerism, you get a free movie ticket.
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He also says Marshall treats all his black friends like indentured slaves.
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Hudson Yards Infrastructure Corporation, N.Y., $2.15 billion of second indentured revenue bonds.
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Indentured labourers in Trinidad and Guyana (formerly British Guiana) were also granted land.
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A big payout from stock options after three years of indentured startup servitude?
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Many of these men, and they are almost all men, are indentured slaves.
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Many are jailed or sold as indentured laborers when they get to Libya.
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They're saddled with enough student debt to turn them into lifelong indentured servants.
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It's an arrangement that many have observed is eerily evocative of indentured labor.
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But the countryside remained polarised between owners of latifundia (large estates) and indentured labourers.
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He is a notable example of how some indentured labourers prospered against the odds.
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As a British colony, Mauritius took the greatest share of indentured migrants: some 450,000.
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And customers think it's OK to swear at servers because they're indentured servants, apparently.
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Some were indentured servants, not lifelong vassals: chattel slavery had yet to be codified.
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Anthony Johnson, one of the country's first black slave owners, had five indentured servants.
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Farmers are still getting forced into lives of indentured servitude by giant chicken corporations.
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Of all the great American sports, football most closely resembles high-priced indentured servitude.
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Johnny is held in a kind of indentured servitude by the joint's flatulent owner.
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Ralph Northam mentioned in his latest misstep, calling them "indentured servants" in an interview.
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The work also criticizes "Hamilton" for not including Native Americans and white indentured servants.
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But it turned into a 12-year-long form of indentured servitude, the woman alleged.
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"This particular form of contract agriculture essentially makes the farmer an indentured servant," he said.
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It's basically a tool to keep control over people, to keep control over indentured servitude.
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But some have started to weave the history of indentured labourers into their national narratives.
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Players can enjoy indentured servitude to the greedy capitalist Tom Nook starting March 20, 2020.
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Since the prisoners were working without payment, it was considered a form of indentured servitude.
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The 13th Amendment began as more than just a bar on slavery and indentured servitude.
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To be clear, we are not suggesting poorhouse policies nor some kind of indentured servitude.
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He came as an indentured servant and was, supposedly, only 21956 to 25 years old.
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INDENTURED: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA, by Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss.
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THE 13th Amendment to the constitution has prohibited slavery and indentured servitude in America since 1865.
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Words like "Indentured servant" is how people try to erase the pain and horrors of slavery.
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Once indentured servants made money, they opted out of waged labor, and bought their own farms.
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Hostility persists between the Africans, brought as slaves, and the Indians, who arrived as indentured servants.
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"This is manufactured financial indentured servitude," she said during a congressional hearing on lending on Thursday.
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If a single individual owns the entire productive asset base, then the only employment is indentured slavery.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the constitution prohibits slavery and indentured servitude—"except as a punishment for crime".
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INDENTURED The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA By Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss Illustrated.
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Indentured workers' descendants have done least well where their ancestors could not own land, as in Fiji.
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Strangers in strange lands, indentured labourers and their descendants preserved some traditions, from caste practices to recipes.
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But I believe the first Africans brought to the colonies were given the status of indentured servants.
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Dogs and cats, noble souls though they are, have been turned into a class of indentured clowns.
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The Times piece alluded to the idea of "indentured servitude," which is what critics are calling this.
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Cookie, by contrast, was orphaned early and has endured a life of indentured labor and hard traveling.
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"Any job that pays $2.13 an hour is not a job, it's indentured servitude," Ocasio-Cortez said.
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Guano was so sought-after as a fertilizer that Peru imported indentured Chinese laborers to mine it.
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Human trafficking runs rampant, with women sold into sex slavery and men sent away for indentured servitude.
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He also co-wrote "Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the N.C.A.A.," with Joe Nocera.
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"Help us end this neo-indentured servitude," Sinakhone Keodara, one of the drivers organizing the strike, tweeted.
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In the Game of Thrones sourcebooks, indentured servants mine the islands for iron and sometimes tin and lead.
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At the time, an ex-Faraday employee told The Verge the relationship with LeEco was like "indentured servitude."
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Land also gave indentured labourers a start in South Africa, where many were granted plots after their servitude.
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Try not to consider the philosophical ramifications of forcing a man with severe brain injuries into indentured servitude!
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Ralph Northam called Black Americans who were forcefully enslaved "indentured servants" and Gayle King had to correct him.
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The problem is the NHL's CBA, one that was ratified six months before Drouin entered into indentured servitude.
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With the 13 abolition of slavery, migrants flooded in from the east: Indian indentured laborers and Chinese shopkeepers.
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Brutalized indentured workers from India and China took up sugar production in Guyana and Fiji, Mauritius and Trinidad.
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The dayibasi often provide laborers with between-harvest loans that can result in a form of indentured servitude.
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Many live as indentured slaves on the estates of some of Pakistan&aposs largest landowners, working on the farms.
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There have been concerns about construction conditions for migrant laborers in Qatar, which some have likened to indentured servitude.
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In Trinidad, however, the mantle was passed to Afro-Trinidadians, who were settled decades before the indentured labourers arrived.
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Fertile white women who have violated Gilead's sexual purity laws are forced to become Handmaids, working as indentured childbearers.
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Ralph Northam is facing backlash yet again after he referred to slaves as "indentured servants" in a recent interview.
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"Help us end this neo-indentured servitude," Sinakhone Keodara, one of the drivers organizing the strike, tweeted that day.
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In 17th-century Virginia, critics of rebellious indentured servants denounced them as society's "offscourings," a term for fecal matter.
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"Barkskins" begins when two skinny and penniless Frenchmen, Charles Duquet and René Sel, arrive in Canada as indentured servants.
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The central authorities are weak and powerless as a result, having become indentured to various political and sectarian fiefs.
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The congresswoman referred to their plight as "indentured servitude," becoming the most prominent voice to back a rescue plan.
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The first 21,2000 "hill-country Tamils" came to work in the island's nascent coffee plantations in 20030 as indentured labourers.
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When really the truth of the matter is they are in indentured service to the commercial interests of its business.
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Women who break society's sexual purity laws are forced to become indentured breeders, called Handmaids, who wear thick red capes.
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The fae work in lowly occupations, often as indentured servants to work off the cost of their passage to safety.
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We are becoming indentured servants to a system we didn't understand when we were forced to make these financial decisions.
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Dustin's a white indentured laborer; Gary's the black slave who oversees his work; Dustin licks Gary's boots until he comes.
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"You almost have them as indentured servants," said Danny Fontenot, the director of the hospitality program at Palm Beach State College.
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Many risk death while going overseas, or having their papers and possessions confiscated upon arrival and being forced into indentured servitude.
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Breakingviews Viacom's chief executive, Philippe P. Dauman, proving he may be the world's highest-paid indentured servant, is defying his boss.
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Borrowers likened it to indentured servitude, and potential investors, the source of Upstart's funds, were skeptical of the risks and returns.
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In the real world, IOI encourages Oasis fans to run up debts that it collects by forcing them into indentured servitude.
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In describing the plight of Affinites, Zhao aimed to invoke real-world issues, including human trafficking and indentured servitude in Asia.
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Many members effectively became indentured servants for Nxivm, working for years without pay and losing their life's savings, the plaintiffs said.
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A favorite research subject of hers was Germanna, the Virginia settlement of Germans who in 1718 were tricked into indentured servitude.
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His comments that the first Africans brought to Virginia 400 years ago were "indentured servants" did nothing to help his case.
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Yet they're treated as indentured servants at best, even by the good guys: Poe is referred to as BB-8's "master".
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Both debates are causing unease in the communities that trace their origins to the influx of indentured workers in the 19th century.
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His features are East Asian, a reminder of all the Chinese who immigrated to Latin America, often as indentured servants or coolies.
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"Autonomous" refers to the state of the book's emancipated robots, who are originally indentured to pay for the cost of their creation.
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Many have compared "third party ownership" to sports indentured servitude, as third parties — often wealthy businessmen — own monetary shares in different players.
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When we first shared our idea, people said it sounded like indentured servitude because the migrant is so tied to one family.
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Often with financial arrangements akin to indentured servitude, the women were prevented from leaving the premises and could not communicate with family.
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Between draws and the points system, this helps to keep the carny folk always just barely equalling out, always indentured their employers.
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An investigation found the workers caring for older residents, though, are often living like indentured servants and are fearful of speaking up.
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In colonial times, indentured servants and prison inmates were purportedly fed them almost daily, until ordinances were passed to prevent such cruelty.
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From indentured juvenile to tortured adult to union leader before her 39th birthday, she has paid heavy dues and plans to keep paying.
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Former pieces saw her performing in the guise of her alter ego Cindi Mayweather, an indentured android trying to free her fellow robots.
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He was chastised back in February for referring to slaves as "indentured servants" during an interview with Gayle King on CBS This Morning.
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As reported in the book Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA, black players largely remained committed to the cause.
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They come over here as indentured servants basically and their boss gets them a cheap lawyer while they work off their insurmountable debt.
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The early black arrivals in the British North American colonies, and likely those at Jamestown, were often given the status of indentured servants.
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They then enter indentured servitude in businesses ranging from hotels to convenience stores to pay off smuggling debts and bond fees, Zamora said.
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Plot A satire in which an indentured servant from China goes to work for a Chinese-American family living a comfortable California life.
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In a 75-20 vote, the Senate passed a bill banning the import of all products produced using convict, forced, or indentured labor.
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Lewis, however, supported the view of a minority of those textbooks that these involuntary migrants were indentured servants, a debate that continues today.
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A lot of textbooks now will center them as both [slaves or indentured servants], but the way we understand slavery is very vague.
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Luckily, Tom is considerate enough to let you pay your debt back in miles, like a sort of indentured credit card reward program.
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She, a woman who was born to an indentured servant, wrote to her son that she never felt so poor in her life.
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When that happens, smugglers often collect half in the home country and require children to work off the other half as indentured servants.
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"It's certainly not our intention to create a class of indentured servants who can't move from one school to another," Mr. Belluck said.
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Though this is 24% higher than it was in 2003, it seems unlikely to trigger the kind of indentured servitude so often imagined.
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First, indentured laborers were brought to islands like Trinidad and Cuba, where they sometimes worked alongside slaves even after slavery was officially outlawed.
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New forms of subjugation took the place of slavery: sharecropping; the indentured labour of prisoners; lynching; the suppression of black voters; and racial segregation.
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The indentured labourers' fortunes varied from place to place, according to their numbers, who else lived there, and laws about land tenure and race.
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It chronicled the lives of several dozen indentured Cambodian migrants, most of them boys, working on the ships, all of whom are now free.
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The country's complicated history, which includes colonization, slavery and indentured servitude has resulted in a food culture that incorporates British, African and Indian influences.
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And BoJack's roommate slash indentured servant Todd (Aaron Paul) … well, he escaped the improv cult cruise, so the less said about that, the better.
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"My family is from Guyana, so feeling that strong connection with slavery and my family coming over as indentured servants" is energizing, she said.
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"By romanticizing people who treated human beings as animals, you're playing along with the system as well," an indentured servant (Lisa Pakulski) tells Miranda.
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The Afro-Indian heritage of Toronto is inextricably linked to the history of slavery, indentured servitude and empire that gave the world Naipaul himself.
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" Later, after a backlash, Northam released a statement saying that a historian once told him it was more accurate to use the term "indentured.
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But by her account, after marrying Mr. Kazin less than two years later, she indentured herself for nearly three decades as his insignificant other.
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He says the plan would create "a near-indefinite period of involuntary indentured servitude" where he has to work solely for the creditors' benefit.
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The book tackles issues of discrimination and indentured servitude, and attempts to create a fantastical look at the murky area between good and evil.
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He meant that we should amend the 13th amendment — which abolished slavery and indentured servitude, except as a punishment for a crime — not abolish it.
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"A historian advised me that the use of indentured was more historically accurate — the fact is, I'm still learning and committed to getting it right."
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Wars are fought against ornery aliens, upper-class snobs keep others as indentured slaves, and trained assassins murder people and fashion their bones into furniture.
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The social scene is dominated by people, like me, of Indian heritage, the descendants of sugar-cane cutters indentured to South Africa in the 1800s.
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"At some of these companies, it's like being an indentured servant," Bill Hieatt, who has been a trucker for 20 years, previously told Business Insider.
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He was born in 1932 in Trinidad, the grandson of indentured servants who had been moved from one imperial hinterland, India, to another, the Caribbean.
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Others paid smugglers huge fees, which they then had to work off, a form of indentured servitude that was enforced by the threat of violence.
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Eat The Indian food here is as authentic as it gets, made by the descendants of Indian nationals who were brought over as indentured servants.
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Based on the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name, "The Handmaid's Tale" is about once-modern women forced into indentured servitude to bear children.
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A historian advised me that the use of indentured was more historically accurate -- the fact is, I'm still learning and committed to getting it right.
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Gamblers become starving indentured servants, and the Straw Hats liberate them in escalating battles rendered with a crude line and an often, well, golden palette.
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Comfort has a tendency to treat May as an indentured servant rather than a traveling companion, loading her down with costumes to freshen and mend.
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Wealthy landowners constructed race and white supremacy to "divide and conquer" and keep enslaved Africans and European indentured servants from banding together for economic justice.
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This vibrant mixture stems from its history as a Dutch, French and British colony, and its sugar plantations that brought indentured laborers from southern Asia.
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In actuality, they'd signed themselves up for a mix of indentured servitude and recreational abuse at the hands of a man with a god complex.
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"Any job that pays $2.13 an hour is not a job, it is indentured servitude," she said, referencing the current minimum hourly wage for tipped workers.
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In the original cartoon, the artificial intelligence industry is booming, and despite their apparent sentience, AI beings like Rosie the Robot are still indentured for life.
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Because you, sometimes, must bear the price of indentured servitude to clinch the acquisition, it is understandable you would seek additional compensation in an acqui-hire.
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The book is narrated by one such Handmaid, known to us only as Offred, because she is indentured to a wealthy and powerful man named Fred.
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In effect, these federally sanctioned high interest rates and loan formulas have created nothing more than a new class of indentured servants for the 220006st century.
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His compromise was to sell Billey into a term of indentured servitude, as allowed by Pennsylvania law, at the end of which he would become free.
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Gary (Ato Blankson-Wood) casts himself as a field slave in charge of a white indentured servant played by his narcissistic boyfriend, Dustin (James Cusati-Moyer).
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Indentured workers from India, descendants of slaves from Africa, and Native American groups were critical to the D.T.R.'s work, but merely mentioned in some texts.
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Most of today's Indo-Mauritians trace their lineage back to the Girmityas, indentured laborers who migrated to work on colonial British sugarcane plantations around the world.
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Its dances and songs peer back across centuries, into the years of black indentured servitude, slavery and, ultimately, freedom on the other side of the Atlantic.
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Even after the abolition of slavery in the early nineteenth century, indentured labour and racist policies continued to blight the British governance of the West Indies.
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During the next two centuries, New England Indians also suffered indentured servitude, convict labor, and debt peonage, which often resulted in the enslavement of the debtor's children.
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This history focusses on the role Native American and African slave and indentured laborers played in building Detroit from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.
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The most famous was Bacon's Rebellion in 21962, in which indentured white servants and free and enslaved blacks took up arms against Virginia's governor but were crushed.
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Our textbooks say they were sold for goods, but they could have been indentured and sold for goods, until their terms [of their labor contracts] were up.
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According to Smithsonian Mag, she suppressed peasant rebellions, failed to end serfdom (Russia's system of indentured servitude that existed until 1861), and annexed land through frequent wars.
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If the comfort women for Japan were kidnap victims, the U.S. camp-town women were victims of sustained economic coercion—much like indentured servants or tenant farmers.
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In this latest take on all-too-realistic dystopia, those in debt can enter a form of indentured servitude, serving as "Dociles" to a wealthy trillionaire class.
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"No, dude, you are not an indentured servant," Troxell said in response a staffer who attempted to give him $10 back in change, according to the investigation.
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The descendants of indentured servants, Irish or otherwise, did not face a legacy of racism similar to the one faced by people of African descent, she said.
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From the NBA's first Indian-origin player to the descendant of an indentured laborer, CNN spoke to a handful of people born to Indian parents who settled overseas.
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And are most masseuses who do sex work choosing to do so on their own volition, or because they are effectively indentured servants in debt to abusive bosses?
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They saw the solution to Latin American backwardness in immigration of white European indentured labourers, which initially prevented a rise in rural wages for former slaves and serfs.
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Both Pave and Upstart faced criticism of being business models supporting nothing more than a modern indentured servitude and it was negative press that neither company could shake.
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Its main rival is the People's Progressive Party (PPP), which is dominated by Guyanese of Indian origin, whose forebears came as indentured workers on the country's sugar plantations.
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Buried in the Centennial State's 1876 constitution is a provision that technically permits a person to be sentenced to slavery or indentured servitude if convicted of a crime.
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While researching my book Curry: Stories & Recipes across South Africa, I had a hard time finding out what exactly the Indian indentured laborers ate in this new land.
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Northern emancipation hardly delivered the slaves or their children from oppressive conditions; poverty forced many ex-slaves to enter themselves or their children into long-term indentured servitude.
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Read more: 'It's like being an indentured servant': Truck drivers reveal the worst parts of their jobsGas stations and grocery stores would start to run out of supplies.
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She was born around 1773 on George Washington's plantation in Virginia, Mount Vernon, with a white indentured servant as a father and an enslaved seamstress as a mother.
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When Mexico tried again, Austin secured a loophole for farmers in Texas, allowing them to free their slaves and then sign them to 99 years of indentured servitude.
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"He would have done a year or two and people would have embraced him because the whole city operates on avaricious class aspirational indentured servitude," Mr. Corcoran said.
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The new ruling bars U.S. imports of goods made by convict, forced or indentured labor — a move that may have a profound impact on U.S. companies using foreign suppliers.
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About 400 workers have been freed from slave-like conditions in Brazilian coffee plantations since 2002, Sheridan said, adding that total number of indentured farmers is likely far higher.
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She becomes an indentured ladies' maid to spoiled heiress Imogen Spurnrose (Tamzin Merchant), whose brother Ezra (Andrew Gower) has lost much of the family fortune with his bad investments.
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Almost from the moment the school opened as the Florida State Reform School in 1900, there was a steady stream of reports of abuse, indentured servitude, crowding and neglect.
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In 219, New York State ratified gradual emancipation for enslaved offspring born after July 4 of that year but held them in indentured servitude until they were young adults.
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It was first used to refer to automatons by the Czech playwright, Karel Capek, who repurposed a word that had referred to a system of indentured servitude or serfdom.
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Not entirely tranquilized, however: a spate of recent international criticism of the working conditions of the armies of indentured laborers who are building paradise caught the Qatari government off guard.
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It traces the life of Ramoncita, a two-spirit person, from her early life as a naive indentured servant, all the way to old age as a self-actualized artist.
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Arnold had read a 2007 New York Times article about mag crews — traveling groups of young people selling magazine subscriptions, often for predatory companies keeping them indentured under brutal conditions.
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Morris says this echoed Macklemore's public apology to Kendrick Lamar, and that "recognizing, in the present, that you're permanently indentured to the past" is the task of forward-looking musicians.
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IOI's goal is to control the OASIS, a task it hopes to accomplish partly by offering repayment of in-world debts to people who enter into what's essentially indentured servitude.
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He grew up poor in North Carolina and Tennessee, sent by his mother to work as an indentured servant (he eventually ran away; a reward was offered for his return).
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Its population of 750,000 is mostly divided between descendants of African slaves brought over by the Dutch and those descended from Indians brought over by the British as indentured laborers.
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The book, it turned out, was about a bright girl in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who is indentured as a servant in Cambridge to pay for her brother's academic studies.
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Before that it was Scottish, the name of an indentured servant who came here when America wasn't a country, when he was just one of many who were brought over.
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The island's Hindus are the descendants of half a million indentured laborers, subjects of the British Empire brought to Mauritius in the nineteen century with the promise of a better life.
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Years later, in a cruel twist of irony, those very ships were eventually used to transport indentured Chinese laborers to the sugar and tobacco plantations in Latin America to mine guano.
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His recently widowed grandfather (De Niro) wants to save him from a life of indentured nuptial obligations and concocts a scheme to get Jason down to Daytona Beach for spring break.
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Last season, the main madams were sidelined: Margaret Wells (Samantha Morton) was sent to America as an indentured servant and Lydia Quigley (Lesley Manville) was locked up in a mental hospital.
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But Gideon is an indentured servant, and her labor is owed to Harrowhark, the 17-year-old princess of the Ninth, most powerful necromancer of her generation, and Gideon's childhood nemesis.
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Cabbagetown was a poor depressed area of white people who were essentially brought into Atlanta as indentured servants, to work as slaves in the cotton mills, which are now luxury condos.
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"Many were sent by the British as indentured laborers on Sri Lankan tea plantations, and hoped for a better life in India when they came here during the war," he said.
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Sometimes the adoptions took place as one might hope—a child legitimately welcomed into another family—and sometimes they were closer to a form of indentured servitude for the still-settling West.
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The disclosures have also led the United States to take some important new steps to clamp down on the use of indentured workers and discourage other unlawful activities on the high seas.
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The amendment that the president has said he will sign this week would close a loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930, which bars products made by convict, forced or indentured labor.
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You can use the eye machine for its intended use, or, you can use it to show people a series of images intended to indoctrinate them into a life of indentured servitude.
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After a series of sex sketches—a dildo-drunk mistress and a slave fiddler; a white indentured servant and the slave who has been assigned to oversee his work—something confusing happens.
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The Chans, who soon after would leave Hong Kong to pursue work in Australia, signed a ten-year contract with the academy, essentially consigning their son to a life of indentured servitude.
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Rather than pay fair wages to free African workers, British planters such as the Bookers convinced the British government to help finance voyages to collect replacement sugar workers — indentured workers from India.
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British Guiana was first in line to receive these workers, and by the time the practice ended in 1917 amid gross human-rights abuses, the colony had received 2003,000 Indian indentured workers.
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The H-1B visa program is nothing more than a massive loophole big business exploits to import cheap labor — little more than modern indentured servants — to replace more expensive domestic skilled labor.
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Curry powder, rice, soy sauce, the savory zing of sugar cooked black: These are among the tastes of Caribbean cooking, ingredients and techniques brought to the islands by slavery, colonialism, indentured servitude.
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Prison labor is nearly as old as the American prison system itself, and it is protected by the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery and indentured servitude except as punishment for a crime.
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Lily and Mia are trapped by the motel manager in a form of indentured servitude, and Lily is so desperate in her relationship with Jian that she submits to hymen-reconstruction surgery.
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Roti arrived on the island of Trinidad around the time slavery was abolished in the late 1830s, with indentured servants from India, where the unleavened flatbread has been popular for many centuries.
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People convicted of crimes, no matter how heinous, are fined; failure to pay sends them to "the patty line," where they work in indentured servitude until they've settled their debt to society.
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But what if my European ancestors were indentured servants who worked closely with African slaves and a real romance evolved, despite the cultural norms of that time, and now here I am?
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"Ship Him to Shanghai," one of the oldest songs on the record features Moore's pretty guitar that contrasts with Scott singing about maritime indentured labor in California at the turn of the century.
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Instead, they have decided both effects are bad and are attempting to eliminate them, effectively by increasing the extent to which people are indentured in the workforce by the threat of medical bankruptcy.
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In some ways it accomplished the opposite: In trying to be attractive to U.S. firms, Puerto Rico instead became indentured to them, pledging tax breaks and cheap labor for ultimately transient economic benefits.
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How does that qualify as "indentured servitude" in a world where the college debts of a large percentage of college graduates are a crushing economic problem to both the individual and to society?
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Ben Franklin's best-selling "Autobiography" mythologized his rags-to-riches rise from indentured servant to inventor and statesman, and in so doing he further stitched the redemption narrative into the nation's moral fabric.
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Behind its facade as a liberal parliamentary democracy, Lebanon is the hostage of a half-dozen cynical politicians — themselves often indentured to a foreign power — who divvy up positions and profits among themselves.
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There are magnificent passages in this section of the book, as O'Brien patiently brings to life the stories and histories, the terrors and hopes of London's population of exiles, immigrants, and indentured visitors.
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He called the first Africans brought to Virginia 400 years ago "indentured servants," and though there is debate about whether he was technically correct, it was a tone-deaf statement that drew criticism.
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Speaking about his dedication to continuing the work of racial progress, Mr. Northam pointed out that the state is 400 years from the moment "the first indentured servants from Africa" landed in Virginia.
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In the early 1600s, Native Americans fleeing the colonial frontier took refuge here, and they were soon joined by fugitive slaves, and probably some whites escaping indentured servitude or hiding from the law.
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"Agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they possibly can while family farmers are going bankrupt and in many ways are being treated like modern day indentured servants," he said.
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In the past decade, Human Rights Watch has issued multiple searing indictments of working conditions in the UAE, denouncing the kafala system of indentured labour, high rates of heat stress and on-site accidents.
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The Chinese began to arrive in great numbers in the 19th century as part of the British colonial government's policy of importing indentured laborers to work in the country's tin mines and rubber estates.
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Polo left money to Church institutions in Venice, forgave outstanding debts, and freed his indentured servant, a Tatar he had named Peter, "so that God may absolve my soul from all guilt and sin".
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American history is replete with horrific episodes that prevented the accumulation of black wealth for centuries: first slavery, then indentured servitude under Jim Crow, segregated housing and schooling, seizure of property and racial discrimination.
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The only people she's enlisted to help her as she insists everything is great (it's not) are her loyal right-hand man/indentured servant Gary (Tony Hale) and pleasant dope Richard Splett (Sam Richardson).
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He is accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a young girl, who was then a sixth-grader, for eight months — allegedly making her his "indentured sex object," prosecutors said in court on Thursday, Newsday reports.
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After Zhao decided she wanted to release the book, she and her publisher sought feedback from scholars and sensitivity readers in an effort to resolve any ambiguity around the type of indentured labor depicted.
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Just as the Sarajevan zoo bear lived a kind of mirror life to the citizens held hostage nearby, Obreht's indentured camel in colonized lands articulate all that is left unsaid by its human master.
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He qualified after discovering, as an amateur genealogist, that a forebear, Adam Pierce, the son of a black seaman and Dutch indentured servant, had served in the New Jersey Militia during the Revolutionary War.
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It is in the meticulous ledgers of Mount Vernon that we first see Ona Maria Judge, who was born around 1773 to an enslaved mother and a father who was a white indentured servant.
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Although the Qatari government has pledged to improve the rights of its migrant work force, some construction workers and foreign athletes continue to work in what is essentially indentured servitude, human-rights monitors say.
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The Nightingale centers around Clare (Aisling Franciosi — who played Jon Snow's mama Lyanna Stark on Game of Thrones), a young Irish convict sent to Australia to serve a 7-year sentence as an indentured servant.
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Do a little poking around and you'll hear stories of indentured workers and massive exploitation of castañeros, something Deeth found when Lush began its entry into sourcing Brazil-nut oil from this part of Peru.
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When slavery was abolished in Trinidad, in 1834, large numbers of indentured laborers were brought from India and China to work on the plantations and, later, in the oil-and-gas industry that replaced them.
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As Indentured reports, he went from top high school recruit to All-American safety, and was considered the best athlete on a Trojans defense that also featured future NFL stars Junior Seau and Mark Carrier.
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Deaton points to the "achievements of the Progressive movement …in taming inequality," but how does he handle slavery, indentured servitude and the almost nonexistent property rights of all women through much of our national history?
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The Irish slave narrative is based on the misinterpretation of the history of indentured servitude, which is how many poor Europeans migrated to North America and the Caribbean in the early colonial period, historians said.
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"The issues around Affinite indenturement in the story represent a specific critique of the epidemic of indentured labor and human trafficking prevalent in many industries across Asia, including in my own home country," she said.
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As a convicted traitor, Jamie can't follow the rest of the prisoners to indentured servitude in America (he can't be freed without royal approval), so he is separated from Murtagh again, which really is not okay.
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"We're highly specialized people with a huge amount of debt that we have to work, like almost indentured servitude salaries just so that we can complete our training and be full-fledged independent physicians," Myles said.
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And we know that Baboo Naidoo, a translator, was documented as the first Indian trader to have set up a shop for the indentured laborers to purchase some of these foods, which he did in 1861.
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He began recounting the history of Chinese people in America, beginning with westward expansion and the gold rush, in the mid-nineteenth century, when an influx of largely poor Chinese immigrants provided cheap, often indentured, labor.
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For the global one percent, tomorrow's utopia is an economic fallout shelter on the sea where benevolence is measured in consumer demand and little thought is given to the disposable poor indentured to keeping it afloat.
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It has exploded into a $240 billion-a-year sex industry that relies on pervasive secrecy, close-knit ownership rings and tens of thousands of mostly foreign women ensnared in a form of modern indentured servitude.
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The ordinary person, who, in the view of past ruling classes, was often referred to as a serf, indentured servant or modern-day lower and middle class who achieves economic freedom will not willingly surrender it.
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I also know that this is, structurally, by design: People who are effectively indentured by debt and live in fear will not be making radical choices about how to live or how to change the world!
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"Recent information from Brazil shows how the Cuban government profits from its state-sponsored foreign medical missions, which they sell as medical diplomacy but look a lot more like indentured servitude," Menendez said in a statement.
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Fertile women who violate Gilead's sexual purity laws are forced into life as indentured childbearing slaves, or Handmaids, and the story of one very typical and ordinary Handmaid, Offred, was the story of The Handmaid's Tale.
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In the interview, he also said he was dedicated to continuing the work of racial progress, pointing out that the state is 400 years from the moment "the first indentured servants from Africa" landed in Virginia.
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There are actually glimpses of that bleakness in the terror on Art3mis's face as she's dragged off to the same corporate indentured servitude in which her father died, trying to work off debt he could never clear.
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Trinidadian independent researcher Michele Reis said the country has "systematically failed to have an adequate migration policy", despite its multi-cultural demographics reflecting historic waves of newcomers, from European colonizers to enslaved Africans and indentured Indian labor.
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Kanye made it clear he's been discussing it with close friends and says the part of the Amendment he takes issue with is the part that allows for the enslavement -- or indentured servitude -- of anyone who's imprisoned.
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Her grandfather, who was the son of an Afro-Barbadian and Indo-African woman, grew up in Lengua Village, a town in southern Trinidad populated by many Indo-Trinidadians, who were descendants of the country's indentured laborers.
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In this program at the society's DiMenna Children's History Museum, the American Slavery Project has focused on the many anonymous slaves, indentured servants and free black New Yorkers interred in the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan.
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It was subsequently settled by French colonists, who brought over 90,000 African slaves to power its sugar industry, and, after slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century, it was worked by Indian and Chinese indentured laborers.
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He learned how to read when he was an indentured servant at a book binder, never was formally educated, and came up with the most profound physical and mathematical discovery of the 1900s and couldn't do math.
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Once there, Yasuke became an indentured bodyguard to a powerful Portuguese Jesuit missionary, who in turn gave Yasuke over as a "weapon bearer and novelty" to the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga in a diplomatic effort to appease him.
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But while Northam has tried to focus on what his office has done, he has also stumbled further, drawing complaints after he referred to the first Africans brought to Virginia as "indentured servants" during this week's CBS interview.
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"In rural America, we are seeing giant agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they can, while family farmers are going bankrupt and, in many cases, treated like modern-day indentured servants," he said.
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"We got a tip from our Amazonian butter supplier that there are issues around indentured labor," she explains, again pointing to the need to make big buys to ensure you know the whole story, from soup to nuts.
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" While the Legal Goods title openly questions the difference between "legal" and "good," it is also a play on words relating to, as Patterson says, "the anonymous indentured servants making our everyday items from inside the prison system.
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Thanks to her hard work, as well as the efforts of the seven domestic/indentured servants she brought with her, Samantha was successfully able to construct a lady's well, children's horseback riding lessons, and an Indian MayPole club.
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Gandhi lived in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century, where he campaigned for rights for the descendents of Indian indentured laborers brought there to work sugar plantations in its northeast Natal province, now KwaZulu-Natal.
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" Joe Nocera, a columnist for The Times and co-author of the book "Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the N.C.A.A.," appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: "The courts haven't done a whole lot.
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According the book Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA, Colter also had a personal motivation for demanding change: the story of his uncle, Cleveland, a former football star at the University of Southern California.
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In this Season 10 premiere, Jon Cryer ("Two and a Half Men") heads to Boston and learns of an ancestor who was a prisoner of war and forced to come to the United States as an indentured servant.
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Ralph Northam whitesplained when he referred to slaves as "indentured servants from Africa," after having to apologize for a yearbook photo of a person in blackface while admitting he once wore blackface at a Michael Jackson dance contest.
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"Before slavery truly became institutionalized in the colonies, some Africans were sometimes treated more like indentured servants who were freed once their service ended or debt had been paid," the National Museum of African American History & Culture said.
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A group of high-profile Democratic Senators, led by Sherrod Brown of Ohio, wrote letters to the nation's top retail CEOs Monday, demanding they crack down on trucking companies that turned their workers into modern-day indentured servants.
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Living a legacy The tea plantations in Assam are a legacy bequeathed to India by the colonial-era government where local tribes were employed, or in some cases got into indentured servitude, in the gathering of tea leaves.
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Mosquitoes also played a role in steering slave ships from Africa across the Atlantic, because plantation owners in the Americas believed that Africans withstood the onslaught of mosquito-borne disease better than indigenous slaves or European indentured servants.
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Mosquitoes also played a role in steering slave ships from Africa across the Atlantic, because plantation owners in the Americas believed that Africans withstood the onslaught of mosquito-borne disease better than indigenous slaves or European indentured servants.
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The faces of indentured workers—who make up nearly 90% of Qatar's population—recur throughout and serve as a reminder of how Doha's cosmopolitan prestige is built on the back of nefarious systems such as the kafala(sponsorship) scheme.
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As documented in Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss's new book, "Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA," it has lost its way so many times that it is now the organization from which players need protection.
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to close a loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930, which bars goods made by convict, forced or indentured labor, amid a new focus on slavery in the supply chains of global companies.
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In the letter dated July 12, the senators urged the CBP to enforce existing laws prohibiting forced labor imports, citing a Washington Post investigation from June that indicated the sector in Ivory Coast still relied on indentured child labor.
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Yesterday's episode of Silicon Valley (the show) treated us to another, when Erlich Bachman—Aviato founder, Bachmanity partner, and all-around palapa-immolating gasbag—left his incubator to take up (unwitting, long-term, possibly indentured) residence in a Tibetan opium den.
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In seeking out domestic servants at low cost, Wilson invoked California's Act for the Government and Protection of Indians of 1850, which promoted the removal of Indigenous and enslaved African children from their families and imposed upon them indentured servitude.
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As one of the first three to go through Modern Labor's program, Angotti is a willing test subject for what some economists and entrepreneurs see as the future of education—and those analysts also reject the "indentured servitude" moniker for ISAs.
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"Barkskins" starts in 1693 with the arrival of two Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, in New France, the colonial territory that France held in North America, to wrest a living as indentured woodcutters, or barkskins, in exchange for land.
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Joe Nocera's new book, "Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA," is an indictment against big-money college athletics, an industry that generates $13 billion per year on the backs of athletes who aren't paid a dime.
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So Axe is left with only one other option: buy the research firm to silence its chief executive, shut down Mateo's firm to end its threat, and force Victor into what's essentially indentured servitude, back with the grunts at Axe Cap.
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West tweeted a picture of a Make America Great Again hat last month with a caption calling for the abolition of the 13th Amendment, which freed slaves in the United States but allowed for the indentured servitude of convicted criminals.
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"In rural America we are seeing giant agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they possibly can while family farmers are going bankrupt and in many ways are being treated like modern day indentured servants," Sanders said.
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"Any job that pays $2.13 per hour is not a job, it is indentured servitude," Ocasio-Cortez told restaurant workers, customers and reporters at the Queensboro Restaurant in her New York City district, in a reference to the lowest possible wage before tips.
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As you show in the documentary, they're fleeing anti-black laws and the indentured servitude of sharecropping that defined the era after Reconstruction, only to have these prejudices catch up with them in the form of housing segregation and tough-on-crime policies.
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But it has turned to a variety of sources for hard currency in the past, including counterfeiting, insurance scams, selling missile parts to the Middle East, and, more recently, exporting manpower abroad under conditions that human rights groups say resemble indentured servitude.
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Each character's vastly different cultural and historical context — Claire is a woman from an America at the cusp of the civil rights movement, while Jamie experienced indentured servitude and genocide himself as a Highlander — adds layers of nuance that only Outlander could bring.
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The opposition People's Progressive Party, backed primarily by the descendants of indentured Indian laborers brought by the British, has promised to use the oil revenues to reopen and modernize the bankrupt sugar refining plants, reflecting their traditional strength in the rural areas.
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Because the truth is seemingly inexplicable: She's used the Greyhound bus ticket intended to liberate her in order to embark on a recruiting mission for her pimp, condemning another Donna type to a life of fear, degradation and indentured servitude on the streets.
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Having essentially been sold into indentured servitude themselves when they were still only children, and knowing far too well what it felt like to be treated as less than human, they did not shrink from subjecting others to an even worse fate.
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He was just stuck in a place where none of his friends could see or hear him, and thus doomed to watch as they mourned his death, then tried to figure out how to free his soul from indentured servitude to the Library.
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Read more: 'It's like being an indentured servant': Truck drivers reveal the worst parts of their jobsWhile Costello's comments make clear that a wider recession isn't needed for truckers to suffer, a downturn in freight often foretells suffering in the rest of the economy.
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The bodies, thought to be those of indentured workers brought to Peru to replace slave labor, were found buried at the top of an adobe pyramid first used by the ancient Ichma people, Roxana Gomez, the lead archaeologist of the site, said on Thursday.
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For 45 swift minutes, we follow these boys on their tortuous journey — hiding in the darkened back of a truck, unwillingly indentured into farm work, at long last in sight of the white cliffs of Dover yet unable to reach them across the channel.
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Photographer: Mark Elias/Bloomberg via Getty Images With Florida's peak growing season underway, thousands of foreign guest workers are descending on farm fields to join a labor force that has endured the hardships of crowded boarding houses, law enforcement raids, and indentured servitude for generations.
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These marginalized individuals were understood quite literally as disposable human fertilizer for pastoralizing the American wilderness, only one facet of a settler-colonial regime's ruthless exploitation and extinguishing of human lives, which extended from indentured labor to chattel slavery to ethnic cleansing and beyond.
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Eboshi, for example, with her slick of red lipstick and swishing silks, might be a perfect villain — she doesn't hesitate to kill gods, fell trees and mine virgin land — and yet she also employs and cares for society's untouchables: lepers and formerly indentured brothel workers.
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When wealthy planters transitioned from largely white indentured servitude to black chattel slavery in the second half of the 17th century, they feared that poor whites who labored alongside slaves and sometimes took them as lovers would rebel with them or help them escape.
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It is a typical Creole eatery in Guadeloupe, with plastic streamers, bamboo tables and chairs, and plastic place mats emblazoned with the ever-present madras plaid motif, a design vestige of the indentured Indians who worked the plantations after slavery was abolished in 263.
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Today, these are supplemented by spicy curries and pickles introduced in the 19th century by Tamil indentured servants, and by the use of cooked greens like those the Chinese and Malaysian merchants who came to Réunion 523 years ago might have had at home.
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According to Lamberti, Ronal's lawyer, Ronal clearly should have received a U visa, a type of visa created by Congress in 2000 for victims of crimes — including abduction, incest, indentured labor, torture, trafficking, and abusive sexual conduct — who assist US law enforcement as witnesses.
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Playlist: "Shield Your Eyes" / "The Boat Dreams From The Hill" / "West Bay Invitational" / "Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault" / "Indictment" / "Outpatient" / "Fireman" / "Chemistry" While Jawbreaker's pop-focused period is surely the best introduction, it had an experimental bent that indentured it to the post-hardcore scene, too.
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The two clerics and numerous researchers, aid workers and police officers were brought together by concern over the multitude of scourges now described as modern slavery: bonded or indentured labour, human trafficking, prostitution rackets involving trafficked persons, and the criminal exploitation of vulnerable people on the move.
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In other words, even if every iota of every single American's work were to be harnessed in service to paying down the national debt for a year, each and every American would still be on the hook for about $4,85033 — in addition to that year's indentured servitude.
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The grim history is clearly told in the prices paid for slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: an indigenous slave, likely to die of imported disease, cost less than an also vulnerable European indentured servant, who cost less than a slave imported directly from Africa.
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Thanks to these new document disclosures, we now have hard evidence — and the government's own evidence — that in addition to implementing a vast internment program in Xinjiang, the Chinese Communist Party is deliberately breaking up families and forcing them into poverty and a form of indentured labor.
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The idea that the self doing the speaking in poems and the self it speaks about are two distinct characters, indentured warily to one another, is not new: it can be found, in various forms, in Rimbaud and Fernando Pessoa, Borges and Elizabeth Bishop, and many others.
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Mr. Twist proposed the use of "humanettes," human-puppet hybrids in which the performers' heads are visible above the puppets' bodies; as a result, the Oompa-Loompas now appear more as a chorus line than an indentured work force, and the audience seems to appreciate the zaniness.
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So when he falls into the ocean and turns up having completely lost his memory, she seizes on a hare-brained scheme to pretend that he's her husband, essentially turning him into an indentured servant for the month so she can focus on studying for her nursing test.
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Huang is right to point out the cruel irony in all of this, but when he characterizes his subjects as "two brothers formerly sold into indentured servitude and treated no better than slaves," he inadvertently downplays the incomparable brutality of the slaveholding system in order to heighten the contradictions.
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Ms. White and other regional historians say it's more likely that the dish has Afro-Caribbean roots; indentured or enslaved West Africans would season the greens and onions left over in the winter garden with red pepper, and stuff it into jowls or whatever chunks of pork they had on hand.
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Though his freedom from the (relatively luxurious) indentured servitude of team control and limited contract arbitration is still three years away, Bryce Harper's demigod skill set and unreal offensive production at such a young age has anonymous team executives and vested agents suggesting he could become baseball's first half-billion-dollar free agent.
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There's no reference to the first documented Africans in Jamestown, who worked as indentured servants in the tobacco fields and eventually became slaves, or of the slowly worsening relations between the English and the natives — due to the English's relentless usurping of the land — or of Pocahontas's capture for ransom in 1613.
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Just in time for what should have been Raniere's sentencing (that's delayed to 2020 now, FYI), Lifetime has put out a made-for-TV movie based on the experience of a mother who tried to free her daughter from Raniere's secretive blackmail scheme involving nudes, near-starvation, indentured servitude, and human branding.
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"There is a huge dependence on migrant workers who have employment terms that are no different than indentured servitude," said Sarah Leah Whitson, director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch, an advocacy group that has documented abuses of migrant workers in the neighboring emirate of Abu Dhabi.
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"[She] worked like an indentured servant as a child, was farmed out to boarding schools, had a mother that never wanted her, ended up in a sexual relationship with her stepfather at very young age, so she had this kind of Dickensian childhood that I knew nothing about when I used to watch Joan Crawford."
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Despite its ratification in 1850 as a free state prohibiting slavery and indentured servitude, California wavered on the status of enslaved people throughout its early history, creating legal structures that allowed slave-owning whites migrating from the midwest and south to retain ownership over enslaved Black people.
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Mr. Abe's push to revise the Constitution has coincided with cabinet-level attempts to renegotiate history: Whether so-called comfort women used by Japanese soldiers during World War II were "sex slaves" or if their work was a form of indentured servitude; and how many Chinese civilians died in the Nanking Massacre in 1937.
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We all know that from the 50s through the 70s, indentured housewives enacted their undiagnosed anxiety disorders, unending boredom, and general social repression on their families by preparing all sorts of culinary horrors that husbands and children had to pretend to enjoy or risk shattering the eerie, Pleasantville-like shininess of the nuclear family dynamic.
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Read more: &aposIt&aposs like being an indentured servant&apos: Truck drivers reveal the worst parts of their jobs The third area of investment, where it all comes together, is about driving more effective workflows, greater productivity, and access to information for our employees as well, because they&aposre ultimately at the center of all of this.
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In its ecstatic portrayals of African harvest festivals, the traditions of indentured workers, and colonial Catholicism, Caribbean Carnival (which is thought to have appeared first in Trinidad and Tobago) was a good medium for kaleidoscopic performances and pageantry; there is a beauty, even, in the early illustrations that served as models for what was to come.
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Some may feel it is a bit rich for a country that has limited free speech and a history of using imported indentured labour on its construction sites to ask people to "see humanity in a new light" or "recognise ourselves in each other", as exhorted to by the posters advertising the LAD on the main highway to Saadiyat Island.
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Some may feel it is a bit rich for a country that has limited free speech and a history of using imported indentured labour on its construction sites to ask people to "see humanity in a new light" or "recognise ourselves in each other", as they are exhorted to by posters advertising the LAD on the highway through the city.
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Before that, generations of my family were enslaved—we were able to track it on my mother's side but not my father's, who was an only child whose mother died during childbirth—in a system unlike any other in world history, one that began as a kind of indentured servitude but morphed into one based on the darkness of one's skin.
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The problem first came to light in a series of articles this summer from the New York Times and the Associated Press, chronicling the lives of indentured migrants who are forced to fish for seafood that eventually finds its way to US markets, including shrimp sold in grocery stores like Walmart and Whole Foods and pet food sold by brands including Meow Mix.
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Fresh anxieties about the precariousness of work and the increasingly precarious place of the worker have, meanwhile, permeated the cultural mainstream, from mounting critiques of the so-called gig economy to the teachers' strikes enjoying popular support nationwide to Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One," a Hollywood vision of the future that features characters who become indentured servants to rapacious tech overlords.
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And despite its global scope, the book remains beholden to a Eurocentric perspective that has little to say about pre-European systems of sugar production in Asia, glosses over the enormous expansion of systems of indentured labor in sugar-growing Asia, and is weak on sugar consumption in places like India, Barbados or Senegal — all currently suffering from a diabetes epidemic.
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" In May 1794, it was recorded that a man named Duncan McMullen, "an object of the almshouse," was asking for permission to travel to Philadelphia to retrieve his daughter, an indentured servant, "who upwards of 8 years ago we had bound to col Alex Hamilton now of that City, and who he is afraid keeps her ignorant in regard to her time being fulfilled.
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They are four relatively obscure humanitarians: an orphanage founder in Burundi who challenged a bloodthirsty mob and other dangers; the only doctor for half a million people in Sudan's Nuba Mountains; a Pakistani advocate for indentured laborers who helps extricate them from debt; and a Roman Catholic priest in the Central African Republic who saved more than 1,000 Muslims, mostly women and children, from fatal persecution.
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