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.

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.

Both Dulany and Noblin came to Colonial America as indentured servants, part of a system for recruiting labor to America that flourished in the Mid-Atlantic colonies of Virginia, Maryland ...

And so these people became known as indentured servants. David ... have looked at the costs of running a plantation in the mid 1600s, that a worker could earn anything from 100 up to 200 ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Erik Sherman reports on business, economics, finance, tech, and law. There was a time on this continent when employees were often ...

Following the abolition of slavery across the British Empire, Indian indentured labourers provided a cheap source of labour to the government. Many Indians travelled from India to the Caribbean ...

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam calls slaves "indentured servants" Virginia Democratic Governor Ralph Northam has defended calling slaves "indentured servants" in his first TV interview since a ...