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.

Americans, after all, were sometimes indentured on plantations, and indentured servitude is really just a step or two away from slavery. Or expressed another way: Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to ...

National protests against police brutality amid a global pandemic have caused many Americans to reckon with the country’s history of racism and inequality. The moment has caused a fake historical meme ...

Feb. 23—GREENSBURG — "Bound for Passage: The Story of an Indentured Servant" is coming to the Greensburg/Decatur County Public Library at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 12. A Living History program, it ...

“James Buchanan was not legally a slaveholder,” Matthew Pinsker told a Zoom audience late last month. Nor did Buchanan or his contemporaries consider him a slaveholder, he added. But was Buchanan, as ...

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 ...

An anonymous user was scrutinized for complaining that a domestic worker they hired to take care of their bedridden uncle "ran away" after not being allowed to visit her children. The original post ...

Sen. Tim Scott on Thursday talked to FOX News Radio host Jimmy Falla about President Biden's proposed $6.8 trillion budget: "One of the things I learned from my grandfather, who had a third-grade ...

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 ...