Abraham Lincoln argued Nance Legins-Costley's case before the Illinois Supreme Court. Indentured servitude, the equivalency of slavery, was allowed in Illinois. Legins-Costley lived for many years in ...

I understand that in school you have been learning about indentured servants. Well, one of your ancestors was one. This is what I know and how I know it. I was raised in Bergen County. My father’s ...