31.   They came as indentured servants and were often treated little better than slaves.

32.   This appeared to work, as the British ruled through local chiefs and brought in indentured servants from India to do grunt work on the sugarcane plantations they established.

33.   Two desperate families even resorted to selling off their youngest children as indentured servants to well-to-do families, a custom characterized by chronic physical and sexual abuse.

34.   Unlike white indentured servants, indentured black people ultimately were denied freedom, and their bondage was extended to their children.

35.   Washington gradually replaced his own slaves with German indentured servants.

36.   Without the promised land, tools, or food rations, desperate black workers became indentured servants or accepted reduced wage rates.

37.   A man who kidnapped a woman in Guatemala, smuggled her into Florida and kept her as an indentured servant has been sentenced to nine years in prison.

38.   So were indentured servants.

39.   The former British colony is split almost evenly between descendants of indentured servants who were brought from India to work on sugar plantations and descendants of African slaves.