She escaped indentured servitude… but freedom didn’t look like safety. There were no shelters. No police to protect her. No papers to prove who she was. So when she ran, she didn’t run home. She ran into invisibility. Women like her changed their names. Claimed dead husbands. Blended into port cities. Worked jobs where no one asked questions. That’s why history forgot them. Not because they didn’t exist— but because survival required silence. And if she had a child? That child became both her sh

Discovering family history can reveal uncomfortable truths. One woman learns about indentured servitude and its connection to slavery, realizing the importance of knowledge and understanding our past. We have a lot to learn from our history. #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre #WDYTYA #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #IndenturedServant #Slavery #Ancestry | Who Do You Think You Are

Reba McEntire discovers her 6th great-grandfather was an indentured servant in Virginia at the age of 9. Jamestown's tobacco boom fueled indentured servitude in the early 1600s. A surprising family history revealed. #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre #WDYTYA #RebaMcEntire #Genealogy #Ancestry #FamilyHistory #IndenturedServant | Who Do You Think You Are

So wait, is this called "indentured servitude"? Or slavery? | Jeff J Hunter