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.

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And so these people became known as indentured servants. David ... 6-9 pounds to pay for a passage across the Atlantic to Virginia. Don:It’s been worked out by some historians and people who ...

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.