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.

Voters in five states on Tuesday were asked whether to update their states’ constitutions to remove slavery and indentured servitude as potential punishments. Although the 13th Amendment to the US ...

We sometimes imagine that such oppressive laws were put quickly into full force by greedy landowners. But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one ...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is facing backlash yet again after he referred to slaves as “indentured servants” in a recent interview. Northam — who is already facing mounting pressure to step down ...

BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSTITUTION. >> CARRYING A BELL FROM THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION, SHE IS SEEKING TO OUTLAW SLAVERY AS A CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT. >> OUR CONSTITUTION DOES PROHIBIT SLAVERY AND ...

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TOPICS: HOWARD COUNTY, Md. (7News) — Clues to Maryland's past are being uncovered in Howard County. "We're finding things like lost buttons, ceramics, and bottle glass. All things that can tell us how ...

It seems as if the history of Blackface isn’t the only history that embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam struggles with. In an interview with CBS This Morning host Gayle King that is set to air on ...