immigrated to. 2. What was indentured servitude? How did it work in the Chesapeake? Indentured servitude was a process where an indentured servant‚ in exchange for a gratuitous trip across the Atlantic‚ served the colonies with labor in the tobacco industry. A landowner was required to pay the trip of the indentured servant in exchange for 50 acres of land. 3. How did the head-right system make some very wealthy? By encouraging the importation of indentured servants‚ landowners and masters
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Slavery in Colonial North America: The Struggle of Whites Slavery is defined as the state of a person who is a chattel of another1. When must people hear this term they think about African Americans struggle in early American history. They conjure up visions of the American Civil War and the iconic image of the great emancipator himself‚ President Abraham Lincoln. The truth to be told though‚ slavery in United States history predates those events and figures. It actually started before
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1600-1763 resulting in continuity and change in the labor system. As people realize that profits can be made in America more settlers came over as well as indentured servants through the head right system which gave about 50 acres to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. As native are dying due to diseases the indentured servants become better source of labor which increase productivity and rapid growth in
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be used for agriculture and homesteads‚ this changed. The labor force in the American colonies began to evolve until it consisted mainly of indentured servants and slaves who worked for the settlers in exchange for little to nothing. This system of unfree labor was crucial in shaping both the society and economy of the American colonies. Indentured servants from Britain were generally the jobless poor of the country’s citizens. Needing work‚ they essentially signed up to toil for a certain length
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in 1611. Once it became clear that tobacco was going to drive the Jamestown colony‚ more labor was needed. The British settlers needed to find a labor force to work on its plantations in the Americas. At first‚ the major possibilities were indentured servants from Britain‚ Native Americans and West Africans. Towards to Native Americans‚ the English entertained two lines of thought simultaneously. Because these people who had the knowledge about how to live in this new continent‚ they had the experience
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slaves. Tainos were used to find and mine the gold because they were familiar with the surroundings and there were enough Tainos to mine the little gold the Spaniards had found. Indentured servants or white servants also contributed to the need for only a small number of African slaves in the 1500s. Indentured servants (contracted workers; poor people from Europe) started to migrate to the Caribbean from Europe‚ as the Caribbean were advertised as having prospects of a new life and jobs. Their contracts
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Bacon’s Rebellion. Nathaniel Bacon led a group of yeomen to attack several Indian villages in response to Governor Berkeley’s containment policy. This rebellion was stopped when an English Governor hung some of Bacon’s men to prove a point (doc b). Indentured
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inferior to them. The economic reasons the Europeans and Americans enslaved Africans because they did not have enough money to pay the white indentured servants‚ so therefore it was easier and cheaper to enslave Africans. Also the white indentured servants began to decline as more working-class whites found employment. As the white indentured servants worked off their debt they wanted to be looked at as equal as their owners and to be treated as the Englishmen. The social reasons in which
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fostered changes in the sources of labor. The harsh conditions for indentured servitude remained during this period. Indentured servants were treated basically as slaves and many‚ when freed‚ were unable to make a decent living for themselves with the small amount of land they were given. The government and society still viewed former indentured servants as inferior to the middle class colonial citizens. Indentured servants were the main source of labor‚ especially in the north‚ until Bacon’s
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was composed of indentured servants‚ people who paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a few years. But slaves slowly began to take the place of indentured servants because indentured servants tended to be more rebellious‚ as what happened in Bacon’s Rebellion. In this example‚ a group of servants‚ led by Nathaniel Bacon‚ held an unsuccessful uprising against the government. Slaves also were a better option for the colonists because indentured servants would only work
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