Indentured Servitude: History, Genealogy Legacy

In the colonial era, about two thirds of all immigrants south of New England came to the Americas came as indentured servants. These immigrants included kidnapped children and adults, vagrants and homeless people, convicts from Britain’s jails, German immigrants to Pennsylvania, Irishmen banished by Cromwell, and people emigrating under their own free will. The total numbers are more than 300,000 people came to America in this way. Was your immigrant ancestor among them?