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.

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 ...

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PEKIN, Illinois — A Black woman who was born a slave, Nance Legins-Costley and her extraordinary story didn’t make it into the history books. The longtime Pekin resident’s freedom was the subject of a ...

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Parenting is the only job where you’re expected to be on call 24/7 without any benefits. It requires an endless balance of love, patience, and responsibility, all while putting your own needs on the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The mother and daughter operators of a Tigard adult foster care home made their first appearance in federal court on Friday after they allegedly coerced three Haitian immigrants, ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unleashed a scathing rebuke of Elon Musk's support for H-1B visa workers in a statement posted to ...

Aug. 11--Eden Selispara left a good job as a nurse in Abu Dhabi to work in the United States, lured by the promise of earning $26 an hour and "travel adventure" through MedPro Healthcare Staffing, a ...