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.

Once upon a time during the early 1600s, Anthony and Isabella were ... t appear on the books until the 1660s. “We came as indentured servants, but for Africans, that was really just a notch ...

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 ...

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 ...

Love in a hopeless place: two lovebirds were kidnapped from Angola and forced into labor in the Americas, yet they maintained their bond, research shows.