Examples Of Indentured Servitude

I chose to reflect on Slavery and indentured servitude as my topic. Firstly, I would like to talk about what each of these words mean. Slavery is exhausting labor that was done by a person held captive and made to work for free. Indentured servitude is a deal that is made between people to keep another in exchange for something they want as form of payment over time. While indentured servitude can be a form of slavery depending on the circumstance such as someone selling their child to someone else to pay of a debt which was actually quite common in when many immigrants were coming to America from Europe. In parable of the sower I did see some themes of indentured servitude mentioned. On page. 36, Lauren introduces a man Richard Moss who has “put together his own religion” and “claims that god wants man to be patriarchs, rulers and protectors of women and father as many children as possible”. Which she goes on to explain how he has a great job as an engineer for a water company. Then we find out that Richard Moss, likes to pick up homeless women to live with him and be a part of polygamous
Moss in the first place. It is described as ethnocentrism in the text this is described as “harsh judgements of life styles that seem to challenge one’s own cultural values”. This actually helps to make sense of what these ladies did because it goes on to say “others who make decisions that contradict what they would do under similar circumstances” (pg. 101 text). I understood a little bit more from the homeless women view point. If they were not homeless would they have made the same decision to live the way they do? Or Would they have said no? Because they would have a home already, not needing to be with Mr. Moss who was taking advantage of their current living