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Indenture refers to a legal and binding agreement, contract, or document between two or more parties.Historically, indenture has also referred to a contract binding one person to work for another for a set period of time (indentured servant), particularly European immigrants.

A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants typically worked four to seven years in exchange for passage, room, board, lodging and freedom dues.

Some indentured servants served as cooks, gardeners, housekeepers, field workers or general laborers; others learned specific trades such as blacksmithing, plastering, and bricklaying, which they could choose to turn into careers later.

An indentured servant signed a contract agreeing to work for a fixed periodusually four to seven yearsin return for meals, clothes, shelter and their passage to the colony. At the end of their term, the master was required to give the workers freedom dues, usually three barrels of corn and a suit of clothes.

Indentured servitude differed from slavery in that it was a form of debt bondage, meaning it was an agreed upon term of unpaid labor that usually paid off the costs of the servant's immigration to America. Indentured servants were not paid wages but they were generally housed, clothed, and fed.

Indenture refers to a legal and binding agreement, contract, or document between two or more parties.Historically, indenture has also referred to a contract binding one person to work for another for a set period of time (indentured servant), particularly European immigrants.

As nouns the difference between indenture and deed is that indenture is (legal) a contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice) while deed is an action or act; something that is done.