groups found within the colonies. The very definition of freedom in itself was influenced by a great deal of factors such as‚ race‚ gender‚ social status and religious beliefs. By looking through the many examples and diverse groups such as slaves‚ indentured servants‚ Native Americans‚ Women‚ Puritans‚ and property owners‚ the similarities and differences become shockingly clear. Firstly‚ I want to focus on the example of the slaves and indentured servants found in the colonies in the early 17th century
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The Thirteen Colonies‚ that joined together to become the United States of America were part of the first British Empire. Each colony was founded by different people and for different reasons. The main reason was the opportunity to make money to bring together valuable natural resources and selling them to England in exchange for goods that were difficult to get in the New World. Other colonies were set up by the Protestants who wanted to avoid the religious they experienced in Britain‚ and also
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The Lives of Two Indentured Slaves Often‚ people became indentured slaves due to hardships that were inevitable during their time. Two examples of such people are John Harrower and Richard Frethorne. While John Harrower lived a somewhat respectable and comfortable life as and indentured servant‚ Richard Frethorne had a much more difficult time. One reason for this may be because of their time differences; Jon Harrower is from the late 1700s‚ while Richard Frethorne is from the mid 1600s
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In early America‚ unfree labor was originally done by indentured servants. As time went on‚ changes in the laws created the condition of chattel slavery. Slaves and indentured servants differed both in the way they were treated‚ and in their possible futures. (I am assuming I am supposed to write an essay about how they differed). In early colonial America‚ arable and available land was plentiful. Even though Native American tribes such as the Iroquois and the Anasazi had made their homes here for
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of the colonial life before the American Revolution was the African slave system‚ however‚ it was not always existent. The indentured servant system which promised to provide men and women with basic needs such as shelter‚ clothing and food in exchange for hard work‚ rapidly progresses to the slave system . The reason for this swift change was that it was simply cheaper to enslave African people than to ship English indentured servants over to Virginia . From this change during 1630-1656 there were
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the beginning of America. The number of slaves grew up in America consisting over eighty percent of the population in the colonies from 15th century to early 19th century. There were two types of slavery in America‚ the indentured servants and African slaves. These two groups of slaves were the number one workforce in America before. Indentured servants were men from Europe who made labor contracts in exchange for passage in America. And indentured servants had to work for their masters for certain
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I. Frethorne‚ Richard. On Indentured Servitude. Edited by Howard Zinn‚ Anthony Arnove. New York‚ NY: Seven Stories Press‚ 2009 II. Frethorne talks about his miserable experience to be an indentured server. He writes the letter to his parents and describes the horrendous conditions he is in. Frethorne states some vital facts.1 He also writes that people who suffer as indentured servants are willing to lose either leg or arm but to move back to England. According to Frethrone he is working on plantation
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Rationale My project will be to examine the lives of Indian Indentured labourers between 1845 and 1917. The reason I am examining their lives is to prove that Indian Indentureship was just another form of slavery with a different name. The project will also assist me in learning about the Indian Indentureship period for my CSEC examination. Introduction Indentured labour was something like the last resort for planters after slavery. After the
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In the 16th and 17th centuries many colonies were starting to appear all over the Eastern Cost of America. All of Europe countries were interested in colonies‚ from Spain to England and even France. To the naked eye these colonies may have seemed very similar‚ but they were very different. Most of the population of these colonies arrived on boats that sailed from various European countries. Many colonies suffered through the early years from famine and death‚ and also poor planning. If we were
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The New England colonies and the Southern colonies are slightly similar in some aspects‚ but drastically different in most. For example the new england colonies were strictly puritan and they did not tolerate any other religion but the southern colonies were not dominated by a single religion which gave way to more liberal attitudes and some religious freedom. The economy of New England was powered mostly the manufacturing in factories‚ whereas the Southern colonies’ economies were more agriculturally
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