(CN) - A Philippines Consulate employee lured a woman to the United States to work for her, then dished her off to people who put her to forced labor for nearly a year and loaned her out to friends, ...

"Immigrant number 96153. That's how my great-grandmother was cataloged, that was the number on her immigration pass." says Gaiutra Bahadur, author of the new book Coolie Woman. Bahadur set out to ...

Traffickers charge women for travel, food, clothes and rent, then force them to pay it off through prostitution at Reno-area illegal massage parlors.

A great-granddaughter assembles fragments of a lost history. They were recruited, duped, bribed, invited, and taken away from their families, aboard ships headed west. They were carried across the sea ...

NORMAN, Okla. – A bed-and-breakfast is being investigated after reports that a Cambodian woman employed there was being treated as an indentured servant. NewsOK reports that a woman who was working at ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.

A viral video of a woman calling for undocumented immigrants to serve terms as indentured servants when they arrive in the U.S. has both received backlash online and caused her to be terminated from ...

Abraham Lincoln argued Nance Legins-Costley's case before the Illinois Supreme Court. Indentured servitude, the equivalency of slavery, was allowed in Illinois. Legins-Costley lived for many years in ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook On Monday, several University units kicked off a five-day symposium that will touch on concepts ...

When slavery was outlawed in the Caribbean, indentured servitude took over. Host Michel Martin speaks with author Gauitra Bahadur. Her book Coolie... "Immigrant number 96153. That's how my ...

When slavery was outlawed in the Caribbean, indentured servitude took over. Host Michel Martin speaks with author Gauitra Bahadur. Her book Coolie... 'Coolie Woman' Rescues Indentured Women From ...