indentured servants

A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.

Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.

An illustrated account of the life of John Howland, the young servant who was indentured to Pilgrim John Carver, describes how he embarked on the Mayflower and survived a fall off the ship before helping his ill shipmates by scouting out a safe harbor.

When Susannah discovers letters from a dear friend from the past, she realizes that a choice that she made in the past has had consequences across two centuries and that she must make a decision about how to forge ahead into her future.

Eighteenth-century North Carolina indentured servant Susannah Marsh, seeking temporary respite at Whisper Falls from hard labor and a brutal master, discovers twenty-first century student and mountain biker Mark Lewis, and he, in turn, seeks to help her. Whisper Falls waterfall proves to not only heal emotional wounds but also to act as a pathway to freedom for Susannah.

After traveling two centuries into the twenty-first century, Susanna is overwhelmed by her new home, and seeking refuge in history and news of the people she left behind, she learns that danger stalks her sister. Will she return to help?.

Alice Cole, sold as an indentured servant by her father, lives and works comfortably in the home of John Morton and his daughter Nabby, but when Nabby marries, Alice's contract is turned over to Nabby's cruel husband Mr. Verley whose abuse drives Alice to run away to Boston where she finds refuge with widow Lyddie Berry and her lawyer companion Eben Freeman, who stand by Alice when she learns she is pregnant and is then charged with a number of crimes.

After being kidnapped and sold as a bond servant in colonial America, fifteen-year-old James, the son of a Scottish earl, struggles with his identity and his loyalty to the Revolutionary cause.

In 1853 four indentured servants escape from Russian Alaska and make their way by canoe down the Pacific Northwest coast toward Oregon.