This paper will look at the impact that indentured servitude had in the Caribbean, and interrogate the justifications for the descendants of indentured laborers to receive reparations.”. Reparations ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

A great-granddaughter assembles fragments of a lost history. They were recruited, duped, bribed, invited, and taken away from their families, aboard ships headed west. They were carried across the sea ...

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. ...

The penalty has remained on the books in more than a dozen states, even though it hasn’t been enforced since the Civil War. But next month, voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Vermont, Oregon and Tennessee ...

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 ...