Man: Jamestown’’s history is pretty much a colossal failure ... Narrator: June 1609, a young girl leaves England bound for Virginia full of hope. April 2012, archeologists in Jamestown ...
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.
In 1607, the English established their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. Over the coming centuries, millions of people from around the globe were attracted to this New World that ...