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.

Washington (CNN)When slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party ...

We sometimes imagine that such oppressive laws were put quickly into full force by greedy landowners. But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one ...

Voters in four states have approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fifth state ...

Voters in five states on Tuesday were asked whether to update their states’ constitutions to remove slavery and indentured servitude as potential punishments. Although the 13th Amendment to the US ...

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 ...

It seems as if the history of Blackface isn’t the only history that embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam struggles with. In an interview with CBS This Morning host Gayle King that is set to air on ...

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 ...

African artists hired by a Korean museum have been laboring under conditions "similar to indentured servitude," South Korean newspaper the Hankyoreh reports. Their allegations about the circumstances ...

WASHINGTON — When Jacqui Rum quit her nursing job at Los Robles Regional Medical Center last fall over the heavy workload and low staffing levels, it came with a high price — a $2,000 bill from her ...