Antique Indentured Servant Contract/ Manuscript 1723 Framed.

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Antique Indentured Servant Contract/ Manuscript 1723 Framed.  Very rare. Please see the pics for condition. 28X21 inches including the frame.
An
indentured servant
or
indentured laborer
is an employee (indenturee) within a system of
unfree labor
who is bound by a signed or forced contract (
indenture
) to work without pay for the owner of the indenture for a period of time. The contract often lets the employer sell the labor of an indenturee to a third party. Indenturees usually enter into an indenture for a specific payment or other benefit (such as transportation to a new place), or to meet a legal obligation, such as
debt bondage
. On completion of the contract, indentured servants were given their freedom, and occasionally plots of land. Indentured servitude was often brutal, with a high percentage
[
vague
]
of servants dying prior to the expiration of their indentures. In many countries, systems of indentured labor have now been outlawed, and are banned by the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
as a form of
slavery
.