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Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
275 pages : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Description
In 1853, four bonded servants escape from a Russian fur post at New Archangel (now Sitka, Alaska) when they cannot bear the ill treatment. A harrowing trip southward brings the two survivors to a bay in southern Washington, where they are rescued.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters -- barkskins. Rene suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi'kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless,...
3) Black flower
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Traces the experiences of Ijeong, a Korean immigrant sold into indentured servitude who resolves to find the nobleman's daughter that he loves and is swept up by the Mexican revolution.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
696 pages ; 24 cm
Description
After cheating the hangman twice--once after the Battle of Culloden in Scotland and again at Marshalsea Prison--Jamie MacGillivray is sentenced to indentured servitude in colonial America where he teams up with a poor village girl similarly sentenced through serfdom, revolt, escape, and romantic entanglements.
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"In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
176 pages cm
Description
A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.
8) Amal unbound
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
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