LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Slaves
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merchants
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indentured servants
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sailors
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Detailed explanation-1: -Indentured servants were men and women who willingly signed a contract in which they agreed to work for a certain number of years to compensate for their voyage to America. Three different types of indentured servant agreements existed in the 18th century: free-willers, King’s passengers, and redemptioners.
Detailed explanation-2: -All were indentured servants. During their time as servants, they were fed and housed. Afterwards, they would be given what were known as “freedom dues, ” which usually included a piece of land and supplies, including a gun. Black-skinned or white-skinned, they became free.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The majority of indentured servants ended up in the American South, where cash crops necessitated labor-intensive farming. As the Northern colonies moved toward industrialization, they received far less indentured immigration.