Richard Frethorne‚ an indentured servant‚ a young man forced to grow up in a challenging area known as Colonial Virginia. Becoming an indentured servant‚ one must sign a contract giving them a working environment hoping for some land in return once the contract has expired. Depending on age‚ one would typically work for around five years. Richard Frethorne wrote this letter to his parents back home describing his struggles‚ his thoughts and opinions‚ and work environment. Richard Frethorne was forced
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Indentured Servitude Richard Frethorne‚ an indentured servant‚ wrote a letter to his parents dated March 20-April 3‚ 1623 in which he describes his experience as an indentured servant. Richard Frethorne was a young Englishman who like many other poor 17th century Englishmen were struggling to make ends meet back in England. Frethorne embarked on his journey to the America’s as an indentured servant in order to find a better life. Merchants in England took advantage of these poor people and recruited
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An Analysis of Life in Jamestown As An Indentured Servant Jamestown‚ Virginia‚ in 1623 was far from the land of opportunity many imagined. For Richard Frethorne‚ a young man who entered the colony as an indentured servant‚ it was a place of relentless suffering and despair. In a letter to his mother and father‚ he detailed his experiences of convincing his parents to purchase his indenture. Surrounded by disease and death‚ his time there was unbearable‚ as evident in the lack of resources he described
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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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Out of extreme desperation‚ a Virginia indentured servant‚ Richard Frethorne wrote home to his family who still resided in England‚ with the hopes of getting food‚ supplies‚ or money to redeem his contract to get out of the terrible situation he found himself in. Life in the early 1600’s in England were hard. Not everyone agreed with the King and his religious views and were treated badly because of it. The difference in religious opinions was not the only thing taking place at this time‚ England
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Marianne Franklin History 6‚ Fri-10:30 March 3‚ 2014 Richard Frethorne Describes Indentured Servitude in Virginia In some European countries including England some of the poor and many laborers were brought to the English colonies by way of ships to work on the farms within these colonies. Because of such an immense amounts of Tobacco crops being planted on these farms‚ a great deal of blood and sweat was needed for the cultivation of these crops. These poor workers were enticed by the idea of
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Nathaniel Bacon and Richard Frethorne who both experienced a rather lackluster servitude in comparison to Alsop. Throughout the extract from his memoir‚ Alsop is consistently positive about indentured servitude and does not openly criticises the system that the British used for workers before the influx of African slaves to the colonies. Alsop found his two years in Maryland were not “so slavish”1 suggesting that the conditions which indentured servants such as Richard Frethorne had faced during the
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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. Between John Harrower and Richard Frethorne ‚ there are several similarities and contrasting differences which classify them
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hundreds as well as the seventeen hundreds. The first primary source comes from Richard Frethorne‚ an Englishman looking to create a better life in the colony of Virginia. The other primary source comes from a Scotsman of the name John Harrower‚ who came to Virginia as a teacher of a colonel. The two men tell very different stories of their lives on board passage and then on the shores of the colony of Virginia. Frethorne deals with a very harsh life in Virginia‚ battling disease and starvation‚ while Harrower
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many sold their life to servitude for a taste of America. But instead of wealth‚ they found debt. Instead of a new life‚ they found death. Instead of freedom‚ they found the endless cycle of poverty. Although few made gains‚ many‚ like Richard Frethorne‚ were left impoverish and destitute. Frethorne’s letter supported Hofstadter’s adverse views on indentured servitude in three main criteria: the disappointment of the New World‚ the inescapably torturous life of an indentured servant‚ and the countless
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