Indentured

Indentured servitude is often contrasted with chattel slavery.

Indentured servitude and chattel slavery are two completely different things.

These days, it seems like you have to become indentured to be able to afford dentures.

indentured servant

indentured labour

As a result, many Black people remained unfairly enslaved and indentured in the so-called free territory. This was not legal slavery (also known as de jure slavery), but slavery in practice (de facto slavery).