Feb. 23—GREENSBURG — "Bound for Passage: The Story of an Indentured Servant" is coming to the Greensburg/Decatur County Public Library at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 12. A Living History program, it ...

An unlikely bond between an Irish indentured servant and an enslaved plantation worker is the subject of Lindy Keane Carter's latest novel, The Rice Birds, which has been described as an "atmospheric" ...

Plymouth’s Pilgrim Hall Museum took part in a new scientific investigation of timbers from a shipwreck known as the “Sparrow-Hawk” to help prove they belonged to a small 17th-century ship that crossed ...

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.

Beyoncé, Shaquille O’Neal, Muhammad Ali, Barack Obama, Billie Holiday and Colin Powell, Alicia Keys share a common Irish heritage. In fact, you may be surprised to know that 38 percent of African ...

DUBLIN (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Irish people were not transported to the Americas as slaves, despite nearly decade-old claims circulating anew online in the run-up to St. Patrick's Day. The ...