Indentured Servitude And Slavery DBQ

There is a lot of evidence that supports the idea that people became richer at the expense of others. The main ones are indentured servitude and slavery. Farmers used indentured servants and slaves as free labor to help with their crops. They were often abused and mistreated because they saw them as nothing more than property and the slave couldn’t complain because the law also saw them as nothing more than property. People in Europe were promised a land of opportunity and great pay, but this was a scam. The people’s real intentions were to convince poor people that they could move up in life and become wealthy so that they could have more people to work for them. Farmers offered people who could not pay for their trip to the new world an opportunity