chief source of labor making the treatment of the slaves and their role in American society change significantly. The reasons for the rise of their importance reflected in the economic‚ geographic‚ and political factors of the time. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor. The earliest settlers soon realized that they had lots of land to care for‚ but no one to care for it. With passage to the Colonies expensive for all but the wealthy‚ the Virginia
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1 Thomas Gordon Indentured Servitude vs. Slavery 13 January 2015 US History University of Phoenix In the beginning of the 1600’s the term slavery in the U.S. wasn’t even thought of. It was more in the terms of indentured servants. In 1607 indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade of the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company. The idea was formed in the thought of servitude was born for a need for cheap labor vs hiring a person and paying them a lot of money
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Indentured servitude and slavery existed in the ‘New World’ primarily for economic and population growth. In the book‚ Going to the Source‚ Slavery was defined as “hereditary” and “a lifetime status” and the slave must serve for life‚ however‚ on the other hand indentured servitude was “contractual” and “voluntary” although the servant is forced to serve for a fixed amount of years. Indentured servitude and slavery are strikingly parallel to each other from the fact that both parties participate
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farms and plantations that required extreme amounts of manual labor. As a colonial employer‚ there were two options for labor: indentured servants and slaves. Although both had their pros and cons‚ one would eventually sweep the nation and be used almost universally. The first type of labor that was used in the British Americas was indentured servitude. An indentured servant became one by agreeing with an employer to take them to New World in exchange for 5-7 years of labor. The benefit for a
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Indentured Servitude and Slavery Luz Perez AP US History Per 3 09/13/13 Indentured servants and the slavery system played a massive part in the rise of colonial economy during the 17th century. The colonists needed desperate help with labor because there was work that had to be done in lands. This need was satisfied with indentured servants and African slaves. The difference between these two was that they were treated differently. Indentured servants were white English people who
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in the economy. This demand for labor was fulfilled through a system called indentured servitude‚ “Indentured servitude was a common way for poor European immigrants in search of a better life to defray the cost of their transatlantic journey‚ by signing a contract binding them to a certain number of years of labor in the New World....
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Compare and contrast indentured servitude with black slavery. Why did Chesapeake colonists make the switch? After the colonies started to thrive with the new crop exports‚ there was a very high demand for field workers to cultivate those crops. There were two ways that the colonists met this demand: the use of indentured servants and the use of black slaves. Indentured servants were‚ by definition‚ “persons who agreed to serve a master for a set number of years in exchange for the cost of transport
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Mainly from England indentured servitudes wanting to come to the New World would have their transpiration paid by the land owner in trade for 4 to 7 years as a servant (Schultz‚ n.d.). This aided the land owns with improved income by having the workers on the land; as it aided the
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When Tobacco became a dominant profitable crop a labor system was needed to tend to the crops. Initially a system of indentured servants was used until the system of a slave labor system looked more profitable. Both systems were similar but also very distinct. The Indentured Servitude system was made up of Europeans who wanted to own land in the New World‚ but didn’t have the money for the trip. In this system their trip would be paid for in exchange for 7 years of labor and to soon be free and own
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Nineteenth Century. After the abolition of slavery forms of labor that inquired the exploitation of workers remained alive. The most prominent was indentured servitude‚ which became one of the driving forces for global interdependence. The necessity for cheap laborers and desire to strengthen the economy stimulated the exploitation and transportation of indentured servants from Asia‚ Africa‚ the Pacific Islands and India‚ thus creating a self-sufficient and diverse environment in the world’s powerhouses
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