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 ...

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 ...

Reba McEntire Discovers Ancestors Were Indentured Servants + More on ‘Who Do You Think You Are? ... McEntire learned that the boy's mother had died and his father sent him to the colonies.

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.