contract labor

Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

Living in a village in Ecuador, a Quechua Indian girl is sent to work as an indentured servant for an upper class "mestizo" family.

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.

Richard Ayre travels to America to become an indentured servant in the Jamestown Colony, where he befriends an Native American boy who teaches him an important lesson about friendship.

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.

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

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.

A poor, friendless English boy, shipped to America as an indentured servant in the early eighteenth century, runs away from a cruel master and dreams of building a house of his own.

In addition to having to cope with major changes in her family, twelve-year-old Susannah, who lives in seventeenth-century Maryland, struggles with her promise to keep the secret of a runaway indentured servant.

While working as an indentured servant on a plantation in Virginia in 1749, thirteen-year-old Summer must prove her innocence when her master's daughter accuses her of stealing.