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.

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 ...

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 ...

A great-granddaughter assembles fragments of a lost history. They were recruited, duped, bribed, invited, and taken away from their families, aboard ships headed west. They were carried across the sea ...

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 ...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is facing backlash yet again after he referred to slaves as “indentured servants” in a recent interview. Northam — who is already facing mounting pressure to step down ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A mother and daughter in Tigard were arraigned in federal court on Friday after being arrested for using force and threats on three people in their care for indentured servitude ...

Parenting is the only job where you’re expected to be on call 24/7 without any benefits. It requires an endless balance of love, patience, and responsibility, all while putting your own needs on the ...