Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy. The timing of the Virginia colony was ideal. The Thirty Year's War had left Europe's economy depressed, and many skilled and unskilled ...

Irish indentured servants in the colonial Americas. The claim that Irish people were enslaved in the British American Colonies stems from a misrepresentation of the idea of “indentured servitude.” ...

During the 18th century, approximately 60,000 convicts were shipped from England to America and sold as indentured servants in the colonies. Today, a museum in Maryland remembers them.

“Before slavery truly became institutionalized in the colonies, some Africans were sometimes treated more like indentured servants who were freed once their service ended or debt had been paid ...

And colonial authorities routinely punished servants who tried to escape—or simply displeased their masters—with whippings, split tongues, sliced ears, and extra years of service.

About 50,000 men, women and children were forcibly transported from Great Britain to the American Colonies between 1615 and 1776. Most of these ancestors of ours ended up as plantation servants in ...

Indentured servitude was vital to the immigration of Europeans to the English colonies; according to Prof. Farley Grubb, by the late 1700s, more than half of all immigrants arriving in ...

Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy. The timing of the Virginia colony was ideal. The Thirty Year's War had left Europe's economy depressed, and many skilled and unskilled ...

During the 18th century, approximately 60,000 convicts were shipped from England to America and sold as indentured servants in the colonies. Today, a museum in Maryland remembers them.