Indentured servitude was difficult, deadly work, and many indentured servants died before their terms were over. But indentured servitude was temporary, with a beginning and an end.

The John Carter House, more commonly known as the Shakespeare's Head building, will get new life, and possibly a new name.

Introduction : brave men run -- No land of opportunity : folk ballads and the story of why we left -- Murder the brother who killed the tree : fratricide and the story of deforestation -- Sisters and ...

In 1698, five ships set sail from Scotland, carrying a cargo of fine trade goods, including wigs, woollen socks and blankets, mother-of-pearl combs, Bibles, and twenty-five thousand pairs of ...

Zohran Kwame Mamdani's victory in the primary election to pick the Democratic Party's candidate for New York's mayor in elections to be held in November, has been extensively parsed for its ...

academic freedom, indentured students, affordability, students, debtDiscussion of academic freedom usually focuses on faculty, and it usually refers to speech. That is the gist of the 1915 General ...

“Approximately 300,000 European workers immigrated to the American colonies in the 1600s as indentured servants, and indentured servitude continued throughout much of the 1700s...” See previous ...

Sharing Rhode Island’s Untold History at the Newport Public Library We’re incredibly fortunate to have the Newport Public ...

The rebellion, in which Nathaniel Bacon led frontiersmen, indentured servants, and enslaved people in an uprising against the colonial government of Governor William Berkeley, was in protest of what ...

By 1619, more labor was needed to support the tobacco trade and “indentured servants” were brought to the colony including about 20 Africans. As of 1650, there were about 300 "Africans" living in ...

The stories of hardship, abuse, discrimination, rape, murder and racial violence against Indians displaced by indentured labour have not eroded with time, writes Vinesh Selvan.

Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political ...