interested in immediate prosperity‚ had little desire to work the land or build fortifications. Thru a system of indentured servitude was put into effect‚ to work the land‚ life for the servants was filled with little comforts‚ owners overworked the servants‚ short life span‚ malnutrition‚ and poor quality of life in general. Poor Irish and English men were the main indentured servants‚ over time this changed in favor of the African slave‚ who were a more productive work
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differed of the north and south regions of the colonies. In the Chesapeake region mostly men‚ especially younger male siblings who did not get land in England due to primogeniture laws‚ immigrated to this area for land. However‚ they served as indentured servants for several years of their lives before obtaining their promised land in the New World. According to the Ship’s List of Emigrants bound for Virginia of 1635‚ males ranging from the ages of fourteen to forty came to America for opportunity in
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nineteenth centuries. Slavery started with indentured servants in 1630‚ and eventually transformed into the slavery that we commonly think of today. The dark times originated when Africans were brought over for the use of labor for white farmers‚ but through much effort some whites and Africans bonded together and broke the unjust rules. Before Africans were popular as slaves‚ farmer’s slaves remained white. The reasoning for slaves or indentured servants was for the use of labor. Farmers in the New
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where there families live and attended the local churches every Sunday. With time they had freedom‚ agreements to be released from indentured servants and free with rights. Indentured servants were quite scarce and expensive and the issue of equal rights presented a major challenge to developing slave states like Virginia. Indentured servants slowly became life long servants‚ having no chance of release at a certain age. By 1660‚ laws were being enacted that defined the regulated slave relations. By
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Initially‚ the labor force consisted of white indentured servants. The first appearance of black slaves in the Americas occurred on the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Jamaica. Both islands were colonized by the English businessmen who grew sugarcane as a cash crop. When the supply of white indentured servants dwindled‚ these planters began to buy West African slaves from the Dutch who conducted an active slave trade in the Atlantic
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the other side of the world. The transfer from captivity to slavery began in the 1600’s. Going to the Americas‚ europeans were promised wealth and property. But‚ in return‚ europeans would have to give up their pride and freedom in becoming indentured servants for a period of seven years. African did not have this option as they were taken be forced to become captives. Before there was a jamestown or any involvement of africans‚ there was the first colony in the area of the chesapeake bay called Roanoke
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However‚ planters liked permanent labor so they looked for more slaves instead of the indentured servants so that practice didn’t last long.. In the 1600’s women did not have many options of jobs. Most of them were homemakers‚ who cooked and raised children. Yet‚ mostly women of a lower and middle class‚ were allowed to have jobs such as spinning cloth‚ washing clothes‚ or being bakers. Some were even domestic servants. Women did not have the ability to vote or live alone. So you could say they were
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Question: Examine the importance of the slave trade to the development of the plantation economies. The slave trade was vital to the development of plantation economies‚ which could only expand and survive in the West Indies with the use of slave labour. The slave trade brought enslaved Africans from Africa to colonies in the West Indies‚ which had begun to take part in the "sugar Revolution" starting in 1640. The plantation system which essentially is the organization of agriculture on a large
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However‚ the colony soon began to collapse due to disease and starvation. Despite the challenges the new Virginia colonists faced‚ they expanded and improved their colony socially and economically with the arrival of the tobacco cash crop‚ indentured servants‚ and slaves. While many historians delude the success of Virginia’s first colony‚ Jamestown‚ to John Smith‚ the real savior was John Rolfe’s discovery of tobacco. At the beginning of the 17th century‚ Jamestown‚ Virginia was a suffering colony
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planters quickly found themselves being land rich but labour poor. At first‚ indentured servants were used as the needed labour. These servants were mainly young English men who‚ in
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