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.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Schuylkill County Historical Society has countless documents detailing the history of the ...

The American Civil Liberties Union and other legal groups are pressing a major arbitration provider to stop enforcing workers’ employment debts, saying the cases amount to “indentured servitude.” The ...

We have indentured servant contracts in our archives that are dated as late as 1893. Testimony concerning the amendment to the Vermont Constitution focused upon stories of how Vermont did not allow ...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (aka Governor Moonwalk F. Jackson) was trying to mend his broken image during an interview on CBS This Morning and he attempted to maneuver his way out of one minefield ...

From the 17th to the 19th centuries, many immigrants arrived as indentured servants where, in exchange for a passage to North America, they signed a contract to work for an employer for a number of ...

Hundreds of years ago, poor immigrants were forced to become indentured servants to repay the cost of their passage to the U.S. by performing years of hard labor. This practice lives on for U.S.

In his first TV interview since becoming mired in scandal over a racist yearbook photo, Gov. Ralph Northam stirred another controversy — this time one dating back 400 years. “Just 90 miles from here ...

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Parenting is the only job where you’re expected to be on call 24/7 without any benefits. It requires an endless balance of love, patience, and responsibility, all while putting your own needs on the ...

Aug. 11--Eden Selispara left a good job as a nurse in Abu Dhabi to work in the United States, lured by the promise of earning $26 an hour and "travel adventure" through MedPro Healthcare Staffing, a ...