shown in document one produced indentured servants. The very first line states ‘This indenture made’- made‚ almost as if they have been transformed from the person they currently are into nothing more than a servant to their master. ‘’In such service and imployment’ and ‘shall there imploy him‚ according to the custome of the Countrey in the like kind’ states that the servant must do whatever the master asks of him. There is nothing in the contract to protect the servant‚ the master is fully able to
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Journal Entry During the early years of the 1600’s many Europeans and Africans moved over from England and became indentured servants. Indentured servants were employed by wealthy people and were used mainly for cheap labor. Some types of labor consisted of working in the fields and helping farmers. Around the 1680’s is when the employment of indentured servants slowly dropped. The reason for the drop was due to the rise of slavery. This was masterminded by European and euro-American colonist
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What is indentured servitude? Why was the switch made from indentured servants to African slaves in the 1600s? Indentured servitude was the answer for cheap labor. Settlers realized that they had tons of land to attend to‚ but they didn’t have anyone to take care of it. The passage to the Colonies affected the poor or lower class‚ but not the wealthy. The Virginia Company came up with a system called indentured servitude to attract workers for the land. This system became an important aspect
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Bibliography: Aslop‚ George. “They Live Well in the Time of their Service”: George Alsop Writes of Servants in Maryland‚ 1663 Frethorne‚ Richard. “Our Plantation Is Very Weak”: The Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia‚ 1623 Hamilton‚ Alexander. “Federalist Alexander Hamilton Envisions a Developed American Economy‚ 1791” Hening‚ William. “Virginia Slave Laws” Jefferson‚ Thomas. “Republican Thomas
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In the 17th century the white indentured servants and black slaves were pretty much the same in everything but skin color. They cooperated in bacons rebellion in which the black slaves and white indentured servants worked together for a common cause. The slaves and indentured servants worked together to end the poverty and discontent of the people who had no land in Virginia. This was the first rebellion in the American colonies that frontiers men took part in. It was the force of about a thousand
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! Impressions of indentured servants Although it may appear that being an Indentured Servant is better than being somebody’s slave‚ that is not the case at all. Yes‚ slaves are permanent and can not work off their debt but when you are an indentured servant you are treated horribly. If you are an indentured servant you might as well call yourself a slave. Chances are that you are not going to survive anyway therefor you will have been a slave for the majority of your life without working your
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Anthony Sheehan Primary Source Paper #1 2/10/15 The Life of Indentured Servants in Virginia Hard work is what created the North American colonies‚ especially Virginia. The foundations of America started early in the sixteen hundreds. Indentured servants from England‚ Ireland‚ and Scotland did the work‚ but slaves from Africa later on helped create the beginning of America as well. A letter and a journal from two different indentured servants are two primary sources that tell us what it was like to
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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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Indentured Servants Throughout U.S. history the United States has encountered many stressful and life taking hardships‚ and all for what? For the world to continue growing‚ for each individual to feel safe and to be created equal. History is a word that we look upon and think of famous people who changed our way of living‚ who went beyond what they were capable of in order to be remembered. People like George Washington‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ John Hancock‚ all these men did great things. Yet we still
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The history of North American white indentured servants was as long as the entire North American colonial history. May 1607‚ London sent the first group of settlers to North America‚ built the James Town. The number of first group immigrants was 105‚ including the white indentured servants. Just in decades later‚ a large-scale importation of white indentured servants was filling the town. Initially‚ the Europeans tried to get workforce from indigenous Indians of North America. They had tried every
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