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Why So Many Settlers Came To The New World
The colonists who came to the New World all have a similar quality. They all used slavery in one way or another to achieve their goals. The colonists would depend on other people or groups in order to sustain a suitable lifestyle the choose. This is why so many colonists thought that working the slaves and indentured servants and giving them very austere living conditions was morally correct. Also, the government is a Democracy so since the majority of the people are colonists, the government is pro-slavery and pro-indentured servants. However, there were three main reasons why settlers came to the New World: for Gold, for Glory, and for God. All these people have a similar justification on the treatment of African slaves, indentured servants, and Native Americans and that is that their conditions of living is very harsh and that they will strip them of their possessions. …show more content…
As George Alsop states “For I’m certainly confident, that there are several Thousands in most Kingdoms of Christendom, that could not at all live and subsist, unless they had served some prefixed time, to learn either some Trade, Art, or Science, and by either of them to extract their present livelihood...” He is merely saying that if the indentured servants came to the New World without having to of been a servant before they were let free, the would be lost in all the essential knowledge you needed to know in order to survive in the New World. So, the colonists who came to the New World did not believe they were mistreating the indentured servants, yet, they believed that they were teaching them through hard work on how to survive once they are let

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