The Pros And Cons Of Indentured Servants

With the increase of life expectancy because of better health care, less native American attacks and less disease from mosquitos, indentured servants were starting to live longer. Indentured servants living longer meant that more of them would finish their 5-7-year term with their master. Leading to their master having to give them land and clothes. So before this most of the time indentured servant’s masters would try to work their indentured servant to death, making them not have to give them any land. Then this stopped happening because people start living longer, indentured servants start actually getting their land and a lot of it is on native Americans land. Which really angers the indentured servants and leads to bacon’s rebellion.
He explains it by saying that the Native Americans “have been for many years enemies to the king and country, robbers and thiefs and invaders to his majesty’s right” In Nathaniel’s mind he is doing the right thing by killing all these Native Americans. The public opinion of Native Americans was so bad that it was easy for Bacon to lead a rebellion against them. Nathaniel also stood for “reduction of taxes at a time of an economic recession, and an end to rule by grandees.” This helped people to join his cause. Bacon’s rebellion consisted of “small farmers, landless men, indentured servants, and even some Africans” who banded together and burned Jamestown to the ground. Burning Jamestown down “Bacon became the ruler of