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.

Anthropologist, author, and University of Guyana lecturer Dr. Kumar Mahabir recently presented a research paper at the Anton de Kom University in Suriname on the case for reparations for indentured ...

Abraham Lincoln argued Nance Legins-Costley's case before the Illinois Supreme Court. Indentured servitude, the equivalency of slavery, was allowed in Illinois. Legins-Costley lived for many years in ...

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 ...

The intergenerational impact of indentured labour on the mental health of the Indian descendants needs to be revisited, ...

The American Civil Liberties Union and other legal groups are pressing a major arbitration provider to stop enforcing workers’ employment debts, saying the cases amount to “indentured servitude.” The ...