contract labor

Eight accounts retold from historical sources of indentured servants in colonial America, including children who were kidnapped and sold into servitude, a girl who indentured herself, and a student indentured as punishment for stealing library books.

Two young indentured servants escape into Pennsylvania in the late 1700's and receive help from an unexpected source.

The doomed flight of two young indentured servants from their unkind master brings together an unlikely assortment of people in a mid-18th-century Pennsylvania town.

An indentured servant looks back on his five years of service on the farm of a Pennsylvania German family in the 1760's.

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.

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.

Follows the life of thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Dunn, from May 1774 to December 1775, as he serves his indentureship with a music teacher in Williamsburg, Virginia, and witnesses the growing rift between patriots and loyalists, culminating in the American Revolution.

After seven-year-old Lavinia is orphaned on the journey from Ireland to the United States, she begins work in the kitchen house of a tobacco plantation and bonds with the slaves who become her adopted family, but when Lavinia is accepted into the big house, her loyalties are challenged.

In the spring of 1768, two young indentured servants escape into Pennsylvania and receive help from an unexpected source.

A ten-year-old orphan is arrested for picking pockets in London in 1731 and sent to America to serve as an indentured servant.