During a storm in the north Atlantic, indentured servant John Howland was swept off the Mayflower's deck. Fortunately, he grabbed a line and was hauled back onboard. Howland thrived in the New ...

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.

Both Dulany and Noblin came to Colonial America as indentured servants, part of a system for recruiting labor to America that flourished in the Mid-Atlantic colonies of Virginia, Maryland ...

But war later followed in the 1660s, as thousands of Native Americans were killed or sold into slavery or indentured servitude by English colonists The Mayflower pilgrims weren't the first English ...