Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865,” tells stories from a variety of perspectives — personal, community and family.

She knows that life as a stay-at-home parent in 2025 looks much different than life as an indentured servant in Jamestown, Virginia, in the early 1600s. That doesn't mean that, ...

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.

Famous shipwreck could have brought Irish indentured servants to Virginia Plymouth’s Pilgrim Hall Museum investigated timbers from a shipwreck known as "the Sparrow-Hawk", which was uncovered in ...

Feb. 23—GREENSBURG — "Bound for Passage: The Story of an Indentured Servant" is coming to the Greensburg/Decatur County Public Library at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 12. A Living History program ...

Galenson, David W. "The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An Economic Analysis." The Journal of Economic History.. March 1984. Grenham, John.

In March 1835, Buchanan paid $250 to the owner of two Virginia slaves. ... The slaves/indentured servants were Daphne Cook, 22, and her 5-year-old daughter, Ann.

Dale’s Code negatively impacted incentives for white indentured servants to work by imposing harsh living conditions and tight controls over economic activity. Moreover, the reputation for strict ...

Still, the fact Musk considers indentured servitude a viable option, even in the middle of a social media spit-balling session, suggests any SpaceX effort to settle on Mars would only emulate the ...