Abstract
Indentured servants were workers – mostly unmarried young adult males – who voluntarily entered alienable forward-labour contracts typically lasting between three and five years in exchange for passage to an overseas destination.
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- Auctions
- Colonialism
- Incomplete contracts
- Indentured servitude
- International migration
- Labour contracts
- Redemption
- Slavery
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Grubb, F. (2018). Indentured Servitude. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2600
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