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.
George Taylor was the Founding Father who earned his keep in America by sweating over hot coals. He arrived in Pennsylvania from Ireland in 1736, an indentured servant to an iron foundry owner who ...
In 1754 a carpenter named Josiah Halstead purchased the Allen House in Shrewsbury. Shortly thereafter he transformed it into a tavern. At some point, Halstead had indentured servants working for him. ...
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 ...
A team of scientists in Massachusetts has examined the timbers of a famous shipwreck in an attempt to prove that the wood belonged to a 17th-century vessel that brought Irish indentured servants to ...
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 ...
Abraham Lincoln argued Nance Legins-Costley's case before the Illinois Supreme Court. Indentured servitude, the equivalency of slavery, was allowed in Illinois. Legins-Costley lived for many years in ...
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 ...
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