Children who are sold as bonded labor only get a handful of coarse grain to keep them alive in return for their labor. Sometimes their period of thrall extends for a lifetime, and they simply have to toil hard and depend on the mercy of their ‘owners’ without any hope of release or redemption. The parent of the bonded child is usually an impoverished, uneducated landless laborer, and the mortgagee is traditionally some big landlord, money lender or business man who thrives on the child’s vulnerability to such exploitation.
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