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"ref": "2004, David Dobson, Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607–1785, University of Georgia Press, page 149",
"text": "Probably the best known of these was John Harrower, whose journal provides a fascinating insight into the life of a schoolmaster and indentured servant in late colonial Virginia.[…]He arrived in London virtually destitute and, unable to find work, soon contracted to work as an indentured servant in Virginia as a means of escaping unemployment and poverty.",
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"ref": "2015, Gwyn Campbell, Alessandro Stanziani, editors, Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World, Routledge",
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"ref": "2019 November 12, Sewell Chan, “Noel Ignatiev, scholar who called for abolishing whiteness, dies at 78”, in Los Angeles Times",
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"A debt bondage worker who is under contract of an employer for a specified period of time, in exchange for transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging, and other necessities."
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"(chiefly historical) A debt bondage worker who is under contract of an employer for a specified period of time, in exchange for transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging, and other necessities."
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"sense": "debt bondage worker",
"word": "契約傭工"
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"roman": "qìyuē yōnggōng",
"sense": "debt bondage worker",
"word": "契约佣工"
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"word": "契約傭僕"
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"word": "契约奴"
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"sense": "debt bondage worker",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "debt bondage worker",
"word": "velkaorja"
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"sense": "debt bondage worker",
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"ref": "2019 November 12, Sewell Chan, “Noel Ignatiev, scholar who called for abolishing whiteness, dies at 78”, in Los Angeles Times",
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],
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"sense": "debt bondage worker",
"word": "契約傭工"
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"sense": "debt bondage worker",
"word": "契约佣工"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "debt bondage worker",
"word": "契約傭僕"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qìyuē yōngpū",
"sense": "debt bondage worker",
"word": "契约佣仆"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "debt bondage worker",
"word": "契約奴"
},
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qìyuēnú",
"sense": "debt bondage worker",
"word": "契约奴"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "báinú",
"sense": "debt bondage worker",
"word": "白奴"
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"sense": "debt bondage worker",
"word": "velkaorja"
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"sense": "debt bondage worker",
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