workers who were capable of getting the job done. In all of the Southern colonies, white planters forced African slaves to produce staple crops for the world market. In Virginia and Georgia, colonists were granted land for each additional servant they transported to their colony. Along with tobacco, wood, naval stores, and rice were also strong factors in the economic success of Southern colonies such as Georgia and the Carolinas. In contrast to the
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to travel to the new world on their own became indentured servants in order to get there. Africans came to the new world forcefully, in order to assist in the quickly growing labor needs. Although indentured servants and slaves had similarities, they had even more differences. Indentured servants came to the new world by working for families that moved to the new world. Slaves were brought to the new world by traders. Indentured servants were under contract with whoever they worked for. This contract
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there for different reasons, both of them had similar conditions and setbacks to live with. In “Retracing the Past: Readings in the History of the American People” written by Gary B. Nash and Ronald Schultz, there is a letter from a white indentured servant named Richard Frethorne to his family titled, “Richard Frethorne’s Letter Home (1623)”. In the letter, Frethorne described the new world and his working conditions to his family back in England; and was disappointed in what he had discovered. Another
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In 1492 a new frontier was discover by a European explorer. This vacant and plentiful land contained endless amounts of hope for numerous Europeans who wished to flee their homes. Wanting to discover freedom for themselves and their families, immigrants came to North America to find individuality and embrace the many liberties they had hoped to secure. Unfortunately, not every person received what he or she had expected from the “land of the free”. These primary sources tell us that freedom in 18th
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The Differences between Indentured Servants and Slaves Jabrehia Smith May 15, 2014 HIS/110 Professor Frank Bird Introduction Prior to the Civil War, slaves and indentured servants were human chattel that were sold and considered personal property. One system consisted of laws to protect certain rights for laborers, while another system provided no protection from the law to protect laborer’s rights because they were simply considered a piece of property. This brief essay explains the
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the servant requested that his or her service be extended after the expiration of the contract. The service could be extended up to twice the time absent, not to exceed seven years. n the Colonial period of the 17th and 18th centuries thousands of settlers arrived in the colonies as indentured servants, who were expected to work without wages to pay off their debts, which included the cost of transportation to the colonies. Large estates and workshops continued to employ indentured servants in the
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which demanded the need for more labor. Indentured servants, person promised to work for a fixed number of years in return for land or freedom, were either voluntary or forced to serve for a master. Indentured servants were used as a solution to the agricultural labor problem within the colonies. Their rights were limited and engaging in trade was prohibited which enabled slavery to later be enforced. Changes and problems aided to indentured servants’ beginning and decline within colonies. Colonies
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Question 1 you are an indentured servant in Virginia colony 1650, describe your background, current conditions, and future prospects As an indentured servant in Virginia colony 1650. I am a man originally from England. There are not many women living here in Virginia at this time. I left England due to all of the religious and political turmoil that was happening there I felt that it would be better for me to start over someplace different. A second chance, I could have a good life open a business
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slaves and indentured servants the early colonies? We see that there was little difference between the slave and the indentured servant. Indentured servants came from England. They had no chance at owning land in England and were very poor. The only way they could get to the colonies was to come as indentured servants. They passage was paid for and they worked for a "master" for a specified amount of time then they were freed. In fact, black slaves and indentured servants were treated virtually
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Indentured servants were young European men and women and even families who signed a contract that they agree to work for a certain amount of years in return for transportation, food, clothing, water, and shelter. The adults typically worked for four to seven years but the children worked for many more years, usually in plantations. If a woman got pregnant while she was an indentured servant, she and her child would also have to work for many more years to make up for lost time. Indentured servants could
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