As George Alsop states “For I’m certainly confident, that there are several Thousands in most Kingdoms of Christendom, that could not at all live and subsist, unless they had served some prefixed time, to learn either some Trade, Art, or Science, and by either of them to extract their present livelihood...” He is merely saying that if the indentured servants came to the New World without having to of been a servant before they were let free, the would be lost in all the essential knowledge you needed to know in order to survive in the New World. So, the colonists who came to the New World did not believe they were mistreating the indentured servants, yet, they believed that they were teaching them through hard work on how to survive once they are let
As George Alsop states “For I’m certainly confident, that there are several Thousands in most Kingdoms of Christendom, that could not at all live and subsist, unless they had served some prefixed time, to learn either some Trade, Art, or Science, and by either of them to extract their present livelihood...” He is merely saying that if the indentured servants came to the New World without having to of been a servant before they were let free, the would be lost in all the essential knowledge you needed to know in order to survive in the New World. So, the colonists who came to the New World did not believe they were mistreating the indentured servants, yet, they believed that they were teaching them through hard work on how to survive once they are let