From the 17th to the 19th centuries, many immigrants arrived as indentured servants where, in exchange for a passage to North America, they signed a contract to work for an employer for a number of ...

In 1754 a carpenter named Josiah Halstead purchased the Allen House in Shrewsbury. Shortly thereafter he transformed it into a tavern. At some point, Halstead had indentured servants working for him. ...

What was the experience of a fugitive slave secretly working their way north to freedom in the 1800s along the Underground Railroad? What did it mean to be an artisan apprentice, or an indentured ...