Indenture

Indentured servants that came into the new world faced many struggles. Firstly, they often faced a lack of sufficient food due to the small amounts that were provided to them or the inability to obtain the food. Also, they had risk of getting diseases like scurvy and others that make the body weak. Poverty was also a result of their work. Many indentured servants had hopes of money but often struggled to have clothing or buy things like alcohol. Also, indentured servants were often in danger of…

It was chosen for me through a traditional naming strategy passed on from generations to generations. This is a tradition that is somewhat unfamiliar to me just as the details of my history are not clear. I’m of Indo-Guyanese descent but like most people of my heritage I know very little of our shared past. To better understand (split infinitive) my identity, I must first learn more about my own history. Through my ancestor’s historic journey from India to British Guiana my Indo-Guyanese…

Studying history without any outside biases is a challenging concept, that can determine how one views a historical moment. Bacon’s Rebellion is an example of this, because interpretations can portray it in a positive or negative light. Nathaniel Bacon, the man credited as the leader of this rebellion, had questionable motives and methods for obtaining his position in the newly found country. Analyzing Bacon’s background, his actions and motives, and the consequences these actions had can…

What is slavery and Indentured Servitude? Indentured servitude was a system where young people got into the New World by working for a manager for how many ever years the owners wanted. It was used a lot in the 18th century in the British colonies in North America. They signed an indentured agreement which meant that he was using money from his owner for food, water, and shelter. Then they would repay them by doing labor for a set period of time. Indentured servants that were good at doing…

Precolumbian-1700 Test Corrections: #7: For planters, a slave labor system had important advantages over a servant labor system because slaves: A(cost less than indentured servants) B(could be controlled politically) The answer is B, as slaves could not rebel like Nathaniel Bacon and other Yeoman Farmers and indentured servants for a variety of reasons mainly, small population or the population being spread out across colonies, as well as no access to the ability to…

Coolie Woman: The Odyssey Of Indenture written by Gaiutra Bahadur is an autobiographical expedition to find heritage and cultural ties to history and the hidden oppression faced by many who lived through an indentured lifestyle. After almost 10 decades since Bahadur’s great grandmother first moved from Bihar, Calcutta to British Guiana, Bahadur returns to India to follow the paper trail of her great grandmother’s past. A shortage of needed labor post-slavery was a catalyst for the British to…

subject quickly changed when America first began to be colonized. African slavery in the Atlantic world devastated Africans and enriched Europeans, and these factors remain evident to this day. Europeans had three main options for labor: Natives, Indentures, or Africans. The only advantage of using Native Americans for labor was that they were already in America, so they didn’t need to be transported. On the downside, the Natives badly outnumbered Europeans and had…

A major feature in the Caribbean, in regards to Labor Migration, is the relationship between unfree (slavery), ambiguously free (indenture), and free. These similarities and differences in treatment of Indians in the British Caribbean colonies, indentured Chinese in Cuba, and free laborers in Jamaica can be seen throughout history. These relationship betweens these groups and others in the Caribbean shapes the Caribbean we know today. These experiences can be seen through the difference and…

In 1838 in the British West Indies, there was a dire need for labour after the Apprenticeship system ended. In the large colonies such as Trinidad and Jamaica, there was a vast amount of land available. The ex-slaves tried obtaining these lands with tactics such as squatting, buying land and renting in order to become independent peasants. In the smaller colonies however, the ex-slaves migrated to the larger colonies for work and available land. Some ex-slaves made the choice of working on the…

It is a personal opinion that without art, music, and literature, the people are collectively dead. However, culture is more than art, music, and literature, it is the diverse contribution of the people to a subculture or main culture. While Black culture contributed to the culture of the United States of America, Caribbean popular culture is and has always been the channel used by the lesser group. When the dominant group tried to restrict the Carnival celebrations of the enslaved on the…