The Lancaster Virginia Historical Society and Lancaster Community Library will co-host a talk, “Indentured Servants in Colonial Lancaster,” by researchers Margaret Forrester and Karen Hart on Thursday, June 27 at 6:30 p.m.
This free public program is part of the summer series, “A Special Evening With …” held at the library, 16 Town Centre Drive, Kilmarnock. It will also be livestreamed at facebook.com/lancastercommunitylibrary and recorded.
According to Hart, “In the Virginia colony during most of the 17th century, the bound labor system of indentured servitude was the primary means for landowners to meet their needs for workers, particularly in agriculture. Indentured servants came to account for half of Virginia’s population, arriving mainly from England, Ireland, and Scotland. These men, women, and children were contracted to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia, and, once they arrived, food, clothing and shelter.”
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