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.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has called slaves "indentured servants" in a TV interview about the blackface scandal. Speaking to CBS This Morning presenter Gayle King, he also insisted he wasn't ...

Historic house museums such as the Thoroughgood House exist primarily to preserve the homes and to educate the public.

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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.