Indentured servant

century. Both slavery and and indentured servants have indeed similar mistreatments, but there were also differences. While slavery was involuntary and congenital, indentured servants had contracts, exchanged labor for passage to America, limited time of servitude, and “freedom dues”. Although on the other hand, some slaves gained their freedom (very few), others served for life, sadly earning the second generation the status of being a slave. Indentured servants and slaves were handled in…

Slaves and indentured servants developed a relationship based upon similarity of duties in colonial America. Slaves and indentured servants preformed duties of housework and fieldwork. If these tasks were not preformed accordingly, both groups were beaten. Slaves and indentured servants could be bought and sold depending on their master’s preference. Both slaves and indentured servants also shared a similar relationship with their master; they were each viewed as property and as replaceable. The…

Women who came as indentured servants were usually teenagers. Their lives were similar to a slave however the servant’s service came to an end. They had to obey their owners, and had harsh living conditions. They were treated harshly, received poor quality food, and were separated from their family. In Americans Working Women, it tells us that the indentured servants resisted in the quote “indentured servants had one primary path of resistance open to them: passive resistance, trying to do as…

Jaspreet Sangha History 11 Paper #1 For much of the seventeenth century, Virginia’s labor force consisted largely of white indentured servants from England. Over time, a growing number of Africans, both free and enslaved, worked alongside, and lived among, these young white men. While black Virginians were always subject to prejudicial treatment at the hands of the majority population, they still enjoyed many of the same rights as other Virginians for years. By the early…

from authoritative figures. Although both servants and slaves experienced a lack of freedom, many people assume that indentured servants were freer because they were only required to serve indentured servitude for 7 years, whereas slaves were forced into the harsh treatment of enslavement for life. Seeing that both parties are deprived of their freedom, it showed that the free English landowners justified their harsh treatment toward the slaves and servants by using their freedom to have…

especially affected indentured servants. Willard Bond, one of the indentured servants in A Mercy’s, personal story of servitude along with descriptions of his beliefs illustrate the unique situation of indentured servants and their changing mindset during that time of dramatic social change. Willard, like many indentured servants of the time, was being taken advantage of through the use of new, targeted laws. After Bacon’s Rebellion, measures were put in effect to “keep servants…

dwindle leading European landlords to recur to indentured servants which settles the start of the division between indentured servants and slaves. An indentured servant is a person who works for…

Even though the servants were technically freemen, they didn’t own land, so therefore didn’t get the chance to vote. When servants would challenge their masters in courts of law, judges often sided with their fellow landowners, so little was done because they couldn’t vote. This becomes a greater issue in 1670 when freed servants lost their right to vote after Virginia tightened its restrictions on voter regulations. These…

The servants here had very little amounts of food and rest. Not only were they subject to poor conditions but they often had very strict rules. In most contracts the servants could not buy or sell property and they were prohibited 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…

remaining slaves until a time when the owner might release them. Additionally, indentured servants differed in that they could earn wages and were entitled to freedom dues once they completed their contracts. Also the services of an indentured servant could be sold to a third party, however, the servant themselves were not, in any case, the property of the holder of the contract. Once the contract is over the servant is released free to rejoin society debt free, having rights to own property and…