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.

The William Brown House, an elegant Georgian brick building built in the 1760s, sits on the banks of the South River in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Now a museum, the house is the last visible ...

We sometimes imagine that such oppressive laws were put quickly into full force by greedy landowners. But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one ...

The first enslaved people arrived in Virginia 400 years ago this month. How did slavery shape our country? Here's everything you need to know: Sometime in late August of 1619, more than a year before ...

Once again, Virginia’s governor caused a nationwide facepalm with race-related comments. This time, Gov. Ralph Northam told “CBS This Morning” that slaves who landed on the shores of Virginia ...

Indra Zuno was an accomplished theater and TV actress in her native Mexico before she moved to Los Angeles, aiming for a career in Hollywood. A day job as a courthouse Spanish interpreter paid the ...