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.

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British ... Other colonies soon followed Maryland's example. A 1691 Virginia law declared that any white man or woman who married ...

They're like indentured servants at this point,' the furious commenter added. Williams and Wilmore were originally scheduled to return home in February this year, but further delays mean they ...

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 ...

In fact, it can be — and seems to be in this case — a modern form of indentured servitude that treats ... from the caretakers but to make an “example out of the employees to coerce similarly ...

Sanders accused Musk of supporting the program not to hire “the best and the brightest” but instead to “replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad.” ...