Indentured Servants HST-201 – U.S. History Indentured Servants Indentured servants were an important piece of establishing colonies in North America. They first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in the sixteenth century (PBS‚ n.d.). The growth of tobacco and other crops created a tremendous need for labor in the early colonies. With this need came many changes‚ problems and unintended consequences of using indentured servants.
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foreigners as indentured servers. Although the conditions of service seem fair and reasonable according to the contract‚ the actual conditions may not have been as good. Most of the additional labor‚ which caused importation of indentured servers‚ was primarily male. Over the 16-year period from 1835-1851‚ the number of Asian Indian immigrants to Mauritius as published by the British Government in 1949 clearly shows a pattern of male dominance. The number of former male slaves outnumbered the
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amount of time is a bonded labourer also known as a Indentured Servant. Typically the employer provided little or no monetary pay‚ but was responsible for accommodation‚ food‚ other essentials‚ training and when applicable passage to a new country. Upon completion of the term of the contract the labourer sometimes received a lump sum payment such as a parcel of land and was free to farm or take up trade of his own. In other words indentured servants are very poor people obligated to forced labor for
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Money and Power are the two main factors towards the transformation indentured servants to slaves in Early the United States. Slaves were cheaper and easier to “take care of” compared to having an indentured servant. The growth of agriculture at this time had a good deal of farmland/plantation owners wanting to become the best; The one that makes the most money or the one that has the most powers. From 1603 to 1740‚ within the time span of 137 years change has started laws being created‚ the labor
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a) INDENTURED SERVANTS Landless Europeans agreed to work under a form of contract labor for several years to pay off travel costs. During that time (indentured period) they received no compensation but food‚ room‚ and clothing were provided. The Masters could administer punishment and otherwise abuse to them‚ similar to the owners’ treatment of their slaves. The servants lack full political and civil rights. The indenture servant can sue when planters failed to fulfill their parts of the bargain
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such a strong distinction between the male and female slaves and servants? What does this say about a women’s place in society (slave or servant)? I think the document makes such a strong distinction between male and female slaves and servants because it gives the reader an idea of just how different it was between being man or woman‚ slave or servant. I think Number 51 gives the best picture of the differences between female servants and slaves as well as the beginnings of racism during the beginning
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Indentured Servants During the 1600s‚ indentured servitude was a formal contract formulated to increase mobility in the workforce from England to the Americas. For many‚ taking a ship to the Americas was an excellent opportunity of migration‚ required by the difficulties of earning a living in England. The indentured servant agreement defined the sort of labor to be performed when the destination is reached‚ the length of time to be served‚ and the dues owned at the completion of the contract.
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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 a workforce for the wealthy in America were essentially slaves and indentured servants. Regardless of whether the worker was an servant or a slave they were expected and required to carry out tasks such as working the fields‚ maintaining crops‚ cooking meals‚ washing clothes‚ or whatever the owner of the debtor or slave so choose. This is where the similarities end. From their legacies to their origins‚ slaves and indentured servants differed in almost all aspects‚ and especially with regards
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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 four
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