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What is the name for a person who made a contract to work for a certain number of years in exchange for passage to the new world and a place to live?

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The word you are looking for is called an Indentured Servant.
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Indentured servant

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Farmers found it difficult to hire workers in colonial North America, so one solution was to pay the passage to a young man from a European country who would work for several years to pay for the ticket. These young people were indentured servants working for a fixed period of time, depending on the debt acquired by their passage from their country of origin, they received food, clothing, lodging.

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