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.

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.

Some critics of the program are calling it "indentured servitude" of foreign workers, saying that visa holders cannot change jobs. While changing jobs as a visa holder is more logistically ...