Chesapeake region‚ slaves were kind of treated like indentured servants. They were granted freedom at a certain point in time‚ whereas slaves in the nineteenth-century were almost never granted freedom by their owners and were treated as property rather than humans due to things like rebellions (such as Shay’s Rebellion or Bacon’s Rebellion). In the early 17th century‚ slavery was not yet established. Whites would treat slaves and indentured servants almost equally and they weren’t as cruel with them
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During the late 16th century and into the 17th century‚ two colonies emerged from England in the New World. The two colonies were called the Chesapeake and New England colonies. Even though the two areas were formed and governed by the English‚ the colonies had similarities as well as differences. Differences in geography‚ religion‚ politics‚ economic‚ and nationalities‚ were responsible for molding the colonies. These differences came from one major factor: the very reason the English settlers came
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each person that a settler paid to bring over to North America. This allowed estates to be established‚ which could be worked by indentured servants. How long did indentured servants work for? They worked for 7-10 years‚ after which they were paid their dues so that they could hopefully start their own farms. However‚ the money often wasn’t enough‚ and many of these servants died before they could be paid. What crop saved the Jamestown colony? Tobacco saved the Jamestown colony‚ since it was so profitable
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source who could work their land‚ known as indentured servants. There was a contract binding a servant to a land owner in the colonies‚ allowing him to come to the new world if he worked a certain amount of years‚ and in return the servant would receive land of his own. [Document C] This effort was made a lot of farm owners tons of money‚ even though they had to pay for the passage of their indentured servants‚ they acquired fifty acres of land for every servant and it was a cheap labor source. There
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came with mostly men and indentured servants. Indenture servants work their debt off by working in the tobacco field. Because of such harsh treatment and hard labor‚ many indentured servants tried to escape‚ taking the risk of being caught and having their serving time doubled ( Faragher 40). Because more indentured servant were either freed from their or escaped‚ this introduced the use of slaves. They now used slaves that they purchased‚ to do what the indentured servants were doing. The slaves were
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taxes‚ restrictions on certain individuals’ right to vote‚ and the lack of protection from Native American attacks. Indentured servitude was the biggest form of labor for those who needed it. However‚ indentured servants had very little rights‚ and colonial America couldn’t possibly be considered a “land of opportunity” considering life wasn’t so easy for them. Indentured servants were bound to contracts stating a period of time they had to work‚ but at least there was light at the end of their
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Groups migrated more often to the northern colonies tans to the southern bringing more women with them 2. Virginia’s seventeenth century ratio was three males to each female 3. Majority of women who arrived in the cheasapake were unmarried servants 4. While southern colonies reverted to a more even sex ratio‚ British
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Siva Nuthanapati The article Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox‚ written by Edmund S. Morgan‚ shows how slavery can be paradoxically used to show the history of America and the rise of freedom for Americans. The use of slavery to paradoxically define American freedom is first shown by the use of Jefferson‚ the “slaveholding spokesman of freedom”(Morgan). His attitude toward slavery can be shown in two ways. The first of which is debt. Debt is a force that can hold down any free man and
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producing a single crop economy. The large plantations provided landowners or tobacco growers with cheap and plentiful labor through the use of slaves and indentured servants. In document C‚ the passengers aboard the ship bound for Virginia are all mostly made up of single men well below the age of 40‚ showing that many are probably indentured servants who are going to work in the large plantations. By the 1660s the overproduction of tobacco dramatically decreased tobacco prices causing indigo and rice
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Mr. Trzepinska AP US History 17 September 2012 DBQ on the Colonies Although both the New England and Chesapeake regions were settled primarily by people of English origin‚ they eventually developed into two distinctly different societies. This occurred because of the stark difference in the environment of the two regions‚ the economies of the two regions‚ and the mentalities of the people in the two regions. The Chesapeake and New England regions had many flagrant differences that led to
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