LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Indentured servants were freed at the end of a set number of years.
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Children born during an indentured servant’s term had to serve until adulthood.
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Only men could be indentured.
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Indentured servants came from the West Indies.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Indentured servitude differed from slavery in that it was a form of debt bondage, meaning it was an agreed upon term of unpaid labor that usually paid off the costs of the servant’s immigration to America. Indentured servants were not paid wages but they were generally housed, clothed, and fed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The key difference between indentured servants from Europe and slaves from Africa in the New World colonies was that indentured servants had a means to attain freedom, whereas African slaves did not.
Detailed explanation-3: -Indentured servants were individuals who bargained away their labor for a period of four to seven years in exchange for passage to the New World. In the 17th century, indentured servants made up the mass of English immigrants to the Chesapeake colonies and were central to the development of the tobacco economy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Indentured servitude was historically used to pay an apprentice who agreed to work for free for a master tradesman to learn a trade but evolved as a way for an individual to pay the cost of transportation to the American colonies. Workers were commonly bought and sold when they arrived at their destinations.
Detailed explanation-5: -Many landowners also felt threatened by newly freed servants demand for land. The colonial elite realized the problems of indentured servitude. Landowners turned to African slaves as a more profitable and ever-renewable source of labor and the shift from indentured servants to racial slavery had begun.