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 ...

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.

"On November 16, the Indentured Workers Arrival Day, the 1860 Heritage Centre will host a commemoration ceremony at 10am at ...

Priscilla Presley files elder abuse lawsuit, claiming financial exploitation and manipulation by her former business partners ...

Black and white men who broke their servant contract were equally punished. All were indentured servants. During their time as servants, they were fed and housed. Afterwards, they would be given ...

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 ...

But it won’t deter me,” said Govender. She believed that the comment was not off the cuff but deliberate and timed to ...

From colonialism through to apartheid, people of indentured ancestry living in South Africa were not able to trace their roots. Since the late 1990s, these descendants have been fortunate to have ...

For all its reputation as a liberal laboratory of politics, California also consistently has been where conservative ...

With China announcing the visit of its President Xi Jinping to Brazil for the G-20 summit in Rio de Janeiro on November 18-19 ...