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.

Washington (CNN)When slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party ...

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. ...

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 ...

It seems as if the history of Blackface isn’t the only history that embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam struggles with. In an interview with CBS This Morning host Gayle King that is set to air on ...

Voters in five states on Tuesday were asked whether to update their states’ constitutions to remove slavery and indentured servitude as potential punishments. Although the 13th Amendment to the US ...

Americans, after all, were sometimes indentured on plantations, and indentured servitude is really just a step or two away from slavery. Or expressed another way: Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is taking aim at the controversial H-1B visa program, arguing that it replaces "good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad" — just as the ...

Amid Republican interparty contention over H-1B visas and immigration policy, some misconceptions about workers' ability to change employers have been circulating, with some critics of the program ...