Indentured servants

This indenture, or contract, dated May 20, 1784, states that James Bracken, a linen weaver from Armagh, Ireland, has agreed to serve a four-year term as an indentured servant in Virginia for Enoch Stickney or his heirs. In exchange for his services, the contract promises Bracken passage to Virginia on the ship Washington, "sufficient Meat, Drink, Apparel, Lodging, and all other necessaries befitting such a Servant," Read more about: Indenture of James Bracken

The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive By Richard Hildreth, 1807-1865

Not everyone who wished to come to America could afford it. As a result, indentured servants were common in Colonial America. Was your ancestor one?

GUYANA INDENTURED SERVANTS “From Whence They Left: Paying homage to Indentured Servants 1834-1920″”The Indian indentureship program started as early as 1834. By 1839, about 6,100 …

The project began in January 2020, intending to determine the number of colonial indentured servants in the British colonies of America. Over the past three years, we have uncovered thousands of names. Our initial research concentrated on Maryland and Virginia. The records first appear in the early years of the 17th century. As we broadened…

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Not everyone who wished to come to America could afford it. As a result, indentured servants were common in Colonial America. Was your ancestor one?

By Shubhi Mangla On 5th June 1873, a ship named Lalla Rookh meaning Red Cheeks reached Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname and a history of Indian migration eme

British Guiana Indentured Servants bound for Guyana by Gaiutra Bahadur (fr Andrew Jeffrey's photos)

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History of Slavery

9000 British Slaves in India hidden under the term of 'Apprentices' most likely same for the term 'Indentured Servant' as well Boston Post-Massachusetts 8 Dec 1836

The transportation of enslaved Africans by slave traders from Africa to the Americas is known as the transatlantic slave trade. The slave trade primarily occurred throughout the 16th to 19th centuries. The main Atlantic slave trading nations were Portugal, Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. These European countries would either capture or buy Africans from their countries and bring them back to Europe to be sold and put to work in mines and plantations (AD).

Anthony Johnson, an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia, where he became one of the first African American property owners and slaveholders. Anthony Johnson, became one of the earliest documented slave owners in the mainland American colonies when he won a civil suit for ownership of John Casor. Wikipedia