Indenture

from marrying. If a female servant gave birth to a baby with a man they were not married to she could either have her indenture extended, have to pay a large fine, or get whipped and often all three punishments were received. One of the most intense acts of human exploitation through indentured servitude was displayed when masters would extend a servant 's contract after their indenture was already completed or extend it while selling them. A danger that female servants had to be frequently…

population and killed an estimated 90% of Native Americans (pbs.org). Since these natives served very poorly as slaves, the colonists turned to African indentured servants. They were brought on ships from Africa and were originally bought with an indenture contract (Nash). What started off as a four to five-year sentence, turned into a life one. The farmers began to keep them for longer, since they did not have a government to protect them from that, like the English servants did (Nash). African…

was an indentured maidservant from Bristol, England that immigrated to the Colony of Virginia with her master; Jasper Cross. Leaving Bristol for the fictitious opportunities that everyone in England expected when traveling to the New World, her indenture was sold to William Kendall to help pay for her voyage to Virginia. William Kendal; who was originally indentured, became the most prosperous man after marrying his former master’s widow. The law of coverture was the norm in Colonial America;…

and racial differences became an issue within the use of African slaves and even after slavery was banned. A major reason Europeans leaned toward Africans to use as slaves rather than Indentures was because the Africans were immune to tropical diseases. They were used to the tropical climate, unlike the Indentures who have a very light skin pigment and are not used to the tropical weather and diseases. The Africans also built up an immunity towards European diseases that were brought to the…

Servants The practice of indentured servitude made it possible for those who could not afford passage to the New World. They pledged service to the colony in exchange for the cost of a trip and the boarding fees accrued through the duration of the indenture. A.E. Smith…

The statutes listed in Virginia Regulates Sex Among Servants, Slaves, and Masters, 1642-1769 comment on the seemingly inextricable bonds between gender, an age old social construct that in itself entailed a great deal of restrictions in earlier centuries, and race, with the notion of colonial racial hierarchy being fueled by skewed ideology among whites when coupled with the developing slave culture of the south. A society already polarized by the supremacy of the male sex and traditional…

Indentured servants were individuals who sold themselves, as a form of labor for a or a certain amount of time. The indentures were often shoemakers, plumbers, clerks, weavers, painters, and all sorts of workers. This started in England, because they wanted more people to go into the new world and start colonies over there so they offered to pay for the trip, and if the indentured servants didn 't like staying over there, England would pay for their trip to come back as well. Most workers in…

Great analysis, the break up between England and the North American Colonies can be based on many things, but I believe economics played a major factor in both sides decision to break up. The New World offer a lot of resources and the government had help the country to obtain substantial amount of wealth. The colonies agriculture was there major resource, exporting tobacco and other crops increase their wealth but, they needed someone willing to accept their goods. Therefore, the initial…

Foster care system exist to protect children and guarantee their well-being, both physically and mentally. It is a service that assists children who have experienced neglect or abuse by their biological parents or families. These children might be placed in the care of other family members, people they are not related to, in orphanages and with foster parents that have arranged to adopt them. numbers of factors affecting the number of children who got to foster care, but according to (Csaky,…

In comparison with other European colonial powers the English colonialisms is a late one. While the Spaniards had already established vast colonial areas throughout Middle and South America, and the Portuguese had a flowering trade in the eastern hemisphere in the Indian Ocean and even with Japan (Bitterli 52-69), the English only succeeded in settling down on the North American Coast in Jamestown in 1607 and on the Lesser Antilles only in the 1620s and 1630s (Sheridan, 394). These little…