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  1. Another term for a slave or serf used in the
  2. Caribbean in the 18th and 19th centuries; a
  3. person who was offered a few acres of land in
  4. return for some years of compulsory service.
  5. The system was a means of obtaining labour
  6. from Europe.
  7.