slaves. Tainos were used to find and mine the gold because they were familiar with the surroundings and there were enough Tainos to mine the little gold the Spaniards had found. Indentured servants or white servants also contributed to the need for only a small number of African slaves in the 1500s. Indentured servants (contracted workers; poor people from Europe) started to migrate to the Caribbean from Europe‚ as the Caribbean were advertised as having prospects of a new life and jobs. Their contracts
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Bacon’s Rebellion. Nathaniel Bacon led a group of yeomen to attack several Indian villages in response to Governor Berkeley’s containment policy. This rebellion was stopped when an English Governor hung some of Bacon’s men to prove a point (doc b). Indentured
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inferior to them. The economic reasons the Europeans and Americans enslaved Africans because they did not have enough money to pay the white indentured servants‚ so therefore it was easier and cheaper to enslave Africans. Also the white indentured servants began to decline as more working-class whites found employment. As the white indentured servants worked off their debt they wanted to be looked at as equal as their owners and to be treated as the Englishmen. The social reasons in which
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was composed of indentured servants‚ people who paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a few years. But slaves slowly began to take the place of indentured servants because indentured servants tended to be more rebellious‚ as what happened in Bacon’s Rebellion. In this example‚ a group of servants‚ led by Nathaniel Bacon‚ held an unsuccessful uprising against the government. Slaves also were a better option for the colonists because indentured servants would only work
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fostered changes in the sources of labor. The harsh conditions for indentured servitude remained during this period. Indentured servants were treated basically as slaves and many‚ when freed‚ were unable to make a decent living for themselves with the small amount of land they were given. The government and society still viewed former indentured servants as inferior to the middle class colonial citizens. Indentured servants were the main source of labor‚ especially in the north‚ until Bacon’s
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Slavery in North America: introduction and development: I. Introduction of Africans in North America: This map represents the 13 colonies founded by the British between 1607 and the 18th century. This is the original United State in the 18th century. We must say that the British when they colonized America were a bit late because other European nations had colonized America (both North and South) before the British. The first British settlement in America was in 1607‚ in
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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
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Why do we go from Indentured servants to Slavery in Virginia? * Race does not scientifically exist nor is it defined. We made it up. It evolved out of one group deciding another group is different and cultures are different. Racism has to be taught. * English and European Racism: wanting to believe how you are and who you are is the best and your way is better. Evolved out of the type of society they came out of. White was always looked at as light and a good thing. Black is associated with
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for religious freedom. To make the colonies founded for an economic profit‚ a large work force was needed. For many religious colonies that turned into huge economic powers‚ they used the Protestant work ethic. Other colonies decided to use indentured servants originally‚ but this ended up turning into a large use of slaves for their work force in some colonies. Despite slavery in Britain’s North American colonies originally pertaining to only the economic aspects of the society‚ it actually developed
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Early British North America Labor Systems Early British North American labor systems were indentured servants and slaves. Indentured servants were a mix of ethnicities. AfricanAmerican‚ Indian‚ and perhaps mixes of both. Indentured servants had a contract of how long they had to work and what work they had to do. At the end of that time they could go free. The treatment of the indentured servants was horrendous. They could go free after they fulfilled their contract so the owners would make living arrangements disgusting
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